Suspend Your Disbelief, and You'll Still Be Disappointed

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2001)

Yes, I know that this movie shouldn't be taken at face value. People fighting people in their own little "Fight Club." So much of the movie is nothing but that (hence the title, I suppose). But it has a deeper meaning, some would say. It fights crass commercialism (while being a film FILLED with that very commercialism). It shows how life is meaningless unless you do something different. WOW! Didn't know that one! Thanks, Fight Club!
The movie is a jumbled mess, and the writers and producers are just lucky that people will pay to see practically anything with star power. They're also fortunate that so many people apparently had no idea of the fundamental things the movie so haphazardly tries to demonstrate.
Of course, the actual INTENT of the film is kind of debatable. Seeing it without knowing what the writers had in mind, one could come to any number of conclusions, and I'd guess that there could be any number of interpretations. That's the only point of interest of this film. Of course, since that's true of any film, no matter how bad, it's not really a largely redeeming quality.

***Spoilers follow***
You don't see the ending coming because it's so ludicrous! Try dragging yourself across a parking garage floor sometime. Go ahead! And be sure to have some gauze handy when you have those unsightly head wounds.