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Movie Overview
Cast
• Edward Norton
• Brad Pitt
• Helena Bonham-Carter
Director
• David Fincher
MPAA Rating
R - Disturbing and graphic depiction of violent anti-social behavior, sexuality and language.
Fight Club (1999)

REVIEWS
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INTERVIEWS
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OFCS Rating: 82% Fresh
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4.5/5
"La película es visualmente impresionante, pero es también impresionante en sí..."  Cinenganos  Alex Ramirez

"Although Pitt’s acting brilliance comes through loud and clear in his most unsympathetic role to date, Fight Club belongs to Norton."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

3/4
"Cinematic pop art"  Film Freak Central  Bill Chambers

A
"Fight Club is not a glorification of violence. It is a deconstruction."  AboutFilm.com  Carlo Cavagna

4/5
"Director Fincher knows atmosphere, and atmosphere is what you get."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

A
""Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

80/100
"An extremely well-made but rather muddle-headed film that delivers a solid blow to the belly, yet does not stand up to rigorous intellectual examination."  Apollo Guide  Dan Jardine

1.5/4
"Instead of a nasty story with life lessons, what we have is testosterone-driven lunatics who enjoy pain, the sight of blood, and hearing bones crunch. David Cronenberg might have succeeded with the material -- David Fincher doesn't."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

C
"This was a lightweight film that mistakenly thinks it's in the heavyweight class."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2/4
"Taking every scene on an individual basis, it is often madly brilliant, but put it all together, and it is a pretentious, incoherent mess."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

A
"It's a compelling, entertaining film. Even when it's nihilistic, pessimistic and macabre, it's still eminently watchable and profound."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

C+
"My main problem with Fight Club is that its mood and screenplay suggest an important film with something socially significant to say when in reality it's paper-thin stuff."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

"This devil-may-care love of violence is part and parcel of America's shadow."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

4/4
"The Fight Club is a memorable and superior motion picture - a rare movie that does not abandon insight in its quest to jolt the viewer."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3.5/4
"This is movie that sears the nerves, that immediately draws a line in the dirt and demands that you stand on one side or the other."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

5/5
"Rock-'em, sock-'em, sharp satire is among the best films of the '90s."  Netflix  James Rocchi

4/4
"Fischner’s ability to subvert expectation by delivering such an ultimately positive message is the film’s greatest achievement."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

"Disturbing, often mesmerizing, occasionally funny and probably unlike anything else you've seen in a long time."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

10/10
"See it or I'll have to fight you in the parking lot after work!"  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

2.5/4
"I don't mind a film with a surprise ending but, rather than enhancing the film, the climactic revelation in Fight Club cancels out everything previously seen. In fact, the bitter end of the film is a hypocritical cop-out."  Big Picture Big Sound  Joe Lozito

6/10
"...an incredibly brutal and pretentious film ostensibly about alienation in a modern desensitized world, a black comedy that entertains only on the most superficial level."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

3/4
"Visión de los peligros psicológicos en los que podemos caer gracias a nuestra tecnificada sociedad"  Moviola  Jorge Avila Andrade

1/5
"If you like movies like "NBK" and "RD" then you must see this movie. If you don’t have a strong stomach and don’t like violence. Stay home. Trust me on this."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

4/4
"An absolutely amazing movie, as subversive as it gets. It's a wonder it ever got made, especially by a major studio."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

10/10
"A bracing, mesmerizing, bitterly funny and deeply unsettling fable."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

6/8
"A real go-for-the-throat satire tracking the rising tide of rage in America."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

3.5/4
"Fight Club’s long setup is the funniest stuff Fincher has ever directed, and it hits its corporate, materialistic target with better accuracy than Mike Judge’s Office Space."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

9/10
"It has a power that cannot be denied. And its misogyny is only skin deep."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

4/4
"Physical violence may give the initial sting, but it's the film's psychological violence that leaves the lasting impression."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

9/10
"This movie is almost hypnotically weird, and I liked it for that very reason. Not everyone will."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

5/5
"Um retrato perturbador da inquietação do homem moderno."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

3/5
"May also be yet another example of a book that was just fine as a book -- that didn't need to be made into a film."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

10/10
"A funny, powerful, flashy, tragic film that plays with your perceptions and with your preconceptions about movies and society."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

"Durden is so intense, focused and honestly violent that the messianic hold he has on his followers is palpable. It's one of the best things that Pitt has done and his performance helps to recommend the film."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

"Fight Club is as curiously appealing as your first learned profanity and as dangerous as chewing a light bulb."  Not Coming to a Theater Near You  Rumsey Taylor

10/10
"Hardcore masterpiece."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

"oth Norton and Pitt deliver knockout performances, relishing the wry, cruel nihilist humor."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Susan Granger

10/10
Read review  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 82% Fresh
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