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Fight Club

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A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
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Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) From the guitar roar on the Dust Brothers' opening title track through to the thundering drums of Pixies' Where Is My Mind? it is pure synapse-splitting sensory overload and the road that commercial cinema refused to take. Rated: 5/5 Mar 15, 2024 Full Review Wendy Ide The Times (UK) David Fincher’s adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel is a shrewd and expertly crafted study of the male in crisis. May 24, 2023 Full Review Bob Thomas Associated Press Perhaps it is postmodern filmmaking, whatever that means. In any case, Fight Club remains the ugliest, most inhuman film since Natural Born Killers. Rated: C- Apr 7, 2020 Full Review Rachel Wagner Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) a great movie about work and what motivates us in our lives. Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Ben Gibbons Screen Rant David Fincher created a masterpiece in this mind-bending psychological drama that features a star-studded cast with extraordinary twists. Rated: 4.5/5 Oct 15, 2024 Full Review Christopher Lloyd The Film Yap David Fincher's prescient rumination on manhood at the close of the 20th century was a revolutionary movie about revolutionary men in a time of complacence. Rated: 4/5 Sep 2, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Sphincter M. Mischief, mayhem, soap. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/19/25 Full Review Deepika V This movie felt like I was watching the Twilight Zone. To the unsettling dialogues, to the dim tone of the movie, to Ed Norton acting so bizarre, to Brad Pitt’s cocky manner, this movie was so strange to me. I didn’t find it to be a representation of masculinity, as some may think it is. Norton portrays this lonely man, Tyler Durden, who wants some excitement in his life, and isn’t able to stand up for himself at work. This alter-ego of his (Pitt’s character) that plays in his mind makes him imagine things that aren’t there, say things he wants to say. He doesn’t realize he has been making decisions about his life, such as starting Fight Club, which helps him become stronger. Norton did a great job playing a somber, naïve, and sleep ridden character with unsettling wishes. I personally don’t see the cult status this movie received, but I enjoyed the acting, the soundtrack, and the twist ending. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/18/25 Full Review Jack F I don't like this movie, but I don't hate it either. I know it's one of the most iconic films out there, but it's not for me. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review kish b ★★★★☆ Fight Club is a razor-sharp, testosterone-fueled, pitch-black satire that hits like a fist to the solar plexus and still refuses to pull its punches twenty-six years later. David Fincher takes Chuck Palahniuk’s unhinged novel and turns it into a stylistic Molotov cocktail: the IKEA catalog sequence, the subliminal flashes, the chemical-burn lye circle, the basement fights lit like underground churches, and that perfect final shot of collapsing skyscrapers set to The Pixies. Every frame drips with greasy, neon-soaked genius. The twist (you know the one) was mind-blowing in 1999 and somehow still works on rewatch because the clues are hiding in plain sight the entire time. Edward Norton’s nameless narrator is the ultimate portrait of late-90s corporate alienation, Helena Bonham Carter’s Marla is chaos in fishnets and cigarette smoke, and Brad Pitt delivers the performance of his life as Tyler Durden: magnetic, terrifying, and so quotable that half the internet spent the 2000s trying to be him (and completely missing the point). Meat Loaf’s Robert Paulson alone deserves an Oscar for "His name is Robert Paulson." It loses half a star only because the third act goes so far off the rails into anarchist fantasy that the satire can feel a little too in love with its own nihilism, and some of the "edgy" humor has aged like milk in certain corners of the internet. Four stars: one for the style that rewrote the rulebook, one for the performances that burn holes in the screen, one for the savage critique of consumerism and masculinity, and one because every time that final chord of "Where Is My Mind?" hits while the buildings fall, I still get full-body chills. Dangerously rewatchable, brutally funny, and way smarter than the bro-philosophers who quote it wrong. 8/10. The first rule of Fight Club is: this movie is still a masterpiece. 👊🧼💥 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/17/25 Full Review Guilherme M This movie is an absolute masterpiece. I sat looking at the credits with an continuous surprised face, with my hands in my head, Fight Club, to the Music, Effects, Atmosphere, History, Impact on the watchers, this is the best movie i've watched in my whole entire life. This movie is absolute art, the acting is stunning, 2 hours and 30 minutes felt like nothing to this work of art. I could do infinite lines of text solely on how i think this movie is an absolute masterpiece. And it was my first watch. If you never watched Fight Club, please, watch it. It's a absolute gem. And if you have, watch it again. Thousands of times. You should pay for every single minute that you watch. And it would be worth every single cent.╰⋃╯ Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/16/25 Full Review Katie L. (This was my first watch) I have my complaints but they’re mostly Helena Bonham Carter, and that’s not her fault. Established a love of Brad Pitt I didn’t know I had, wow is he a fantastic actor. A little wild, and my (non-film major but still theater adjacent and former scene kid) husband giving me an excellent blind-view (and some non-spoiler trivia bits <3) I’m looking forward to subsequent watches Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/09/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
Director
David Fincher
Producer
Ross Grayson Bell, Ceán Chaffin, Art Linson
Screenwriter
Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Art Linson Productions, Taurus Film, New Regency Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures
Rating
R (Disturbing Behavior|Anti-Social Behavior|Violent Behavior|Graphic Behavior|Language|Sexuality)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 15, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 19, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$37.0M
Runtime
2h 19m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, Dolby EX, DTS, Dolby Stereo, SDDS, DTS-ES, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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