Fight Club is, if not now, will be a Cinema Classic

Rating: 10/10 (26 June 2001)

When watching "Fight Club", you realise that this movie is a very twisted movie. By twisted, I mean that it isn't one of those films you expect everything to be clearly laid out in front of you in black and white. Very much like the time I saw "The Sixth Sense", I was sitting on the seat saying to myself, "So what's the fuss all about?" Ok, the film had just started so I had now idea what to expect. But did only agree to watch cause people fussed about it. The said to me, "Watch it, man! You'll worship it, afterwards!"
And quite predictable, as it seems, "Fight Club" evolved and developed into one of the most awe-inspiring films I've witnessed. It oozes with the essense of a superb film. It follows a plot format that every movie should follow, beginning with something quite ordinary and turning into a full blown opera of suberb acting, cinematography, lighting, and story telling. What also turned the movie into the gem it very much is, is the plot that is not so much complex but more taxing on the mind, so it doesn't leave the viewer like a stunned mullet, much like the absolute huge disappointment of "Godzilla" (1998).
Edward Norton is perhaps is one the most talented actors of recent times and in his recent role in "Keeping the Faith" only statisfied thanks to his contribution to "Fight Club". Norton plays Jack, our hero, who's life isn't going to great at this time. While trying to handle severe sleeping problems and attending a post-testicle cancer rehab group on false pretenses, he meets Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt)who together they start a fight club, to ease their troubled minds. Brad Pitt churns out a another dazling performance as the ever so convincing character of Tyler leads Jack into deeper and deeper trouble.
The highlight of the movie is the approach to climax, where everything is revealed, in perhaps the greatest plot twist ever put to screen (well almost, though it's up there with "The Sixth Sense"). David Fincher movies always have had great plot twists, such as The Game and Se7en. His efforts as director ensure the beauty of this film and his magic touch leaves that tingling feeling as the credits begin to roll.
"Fight Club", may not be the movie for everyone. It may be too wierd. It may be too stupid. It may be that your not the one for those crazy pscyhcological-plot-twist flicks. For what ever reason you may or may not enjoy this, it is worth seeing it at least once for the experience. "Fight Club" is an extremely important landmark as pscyhcological thrillers go. I'm very sure "Fight Club" will become a movie classic alongside films like "Se7en" and "The Game", in a era of mind game thrillers.