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A bracing, mesmerizing, bitterly funny and deeply unsettling fable about disaffected, emotionally emasculated young men whose search for meaning leads straight to their inner bare-knuckle brawler. Fight Club is the brain child — make that brainless, testosterone-fueled gut child — of scruffy wild boy Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and a nameless, insomniac cubicle slave (Edward Norton). They meet on a plane, bond over the coincidence that they're carrying the exact same briefcase (though Tyler's is full of the chi-chi soap he sells to high-end boutiques, while our office peon's bag is packed with papers). A freak accident blows our protagonist's tastefully appointed apartment to kingdom come and propels him first into Tyler's pestilent house on the industrial side of town, and then into a bloody, sweaty journey of self-discovery that never goes quite where you think it's going. Faithfully adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Fincher's film is a brilliantly realized series of sucker punches, a philosophical howl disguised as a muscular guy movie. Neither Palahniuk nor Fincher is onto anything especially new: The plight of the post-feminist, post-war generation of men without fathers, coming-of-age rituals or meaningful jobs launched the Iron John movement and keeps an army of therapists in clover. But Palahniuk nails the searing alienation and directs it into something simultaneously horrifying and logical (not for nothing is he regularly compared to J.G. Ballard); in his hands Fight Club and its successor, the anarchic Project Mayhem, seem perfectly reasonable alternatives to spiritual suicide, one expense report at a time. Fincher translates Palahniuk's muscular prose into viscerally powerful images as fresh and invigorating as they are profoundly disturbing. He also gives Pitt and Norton the room to deliver what may be the best performances of their careers to date; Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf and Jared Leto are equally striking in supporting roles.

Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide

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This is not an action movie, but a cerebral comedy - which is to say, an ideas movie. Some of those ideas are startling, provocative, transgressive, even subversive. They're also pretty funny. It goes like this: Norton used to be an upwardly mobile urban professional; now, he's pallid, neurotic and unhappy. Then he bumps into Tyler Durden (Pitt), his apartment blows up, and everything changes. Gaudy and amoral, Tyler's an id kind of guy: living on the edge is the only way he knows to feel alive. Pitt's raw physical grace embodies everything his alter ego has lost touch with; they trade body blows for fun, and you can sense the gain in the pain. Their 'club' draws emasculates from across the city; under Tyler's subtle guidance, the group evolves into an anarchist movement. The film wobbles alarmingly at this point, then rallies for the kind of coup de grâce that sends you reeling. Jim Uhls' cold, clever screenplay, from Chuck Palahniuk's novel, is a millennial mantra of seditious agit prop. Shot in a convulsive, stream-of-unconsciousness style, with disruptive subliminals, freeze frames and fantasy cutaways, the film does everything short of rattling your seat to get a reaction. You can call that irresponsible. Or you can call it the only essential Hollywood film of 1999.

Time Out

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At a time when safety is the key to Hollywood's washroom, David Fincher places a bomb under the plumbing. Expect to be shocked, freaked, thrilled and gutted.

Commentators can analyse every ruptured principal until their mouths atrophy. The experience is the buzz and the buzz will blast your brain.

The protagonist (Edward Norton), who uses many names, works as a crash investigator for a big car firm. Or so he says. He suffers from insomnia so bad that the world blurs between bafflement and boredom. His job sucks, his boss is an automaton, his personality is measured by consumer goods.

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As a way of alleviating the eternity of wakefulness, he becomes addicted to self-help groups. Only in the company of those wrestling with chronic fear can he release whatever it is that has brought him to the brink of madness. He discovers the cure to sleep deprivation - tears.

When Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) joins his testicular cancer group, he knows he is not alone. "Her lies reflected my lies," he confesses. "I can't cry with a faker." Marla is on another track. She walks into traffic like a suicide. She feeds off cigarettes and dysfunctional emotions.

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A few weeks later, he finds himself on another plane flying to another town to photograph another car wreck and the guy sitting next to him is a spiky haired prankster, with similar hand luggage, and they get to talking.

This is Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), who will change his life. Flamboyant, reckless, uninhibited, he personifies conformity's flip side, that state of rebellion where the paraphernalia of modern slavery is trashed - "When we've lost everything, we are free to do anything."

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Up until now the movie has been funny, filmed in a frenetic style, suitable for the director of Seven. Norton is a slacker on Bennies, except his drug is self-inflicted, creating an inability to make sense of corporate rules. Marla is doped on despair and the need to undermine romance with hard-core horizontals. Tyler is way off the charts, capable of starting a war. Instead, he starts Fight Club, based on self-help ideals, for men who need to express inner rage.

Things go from interesting to dangerous, from wacky to weird, from bare-knuckle punch-ups to urban terrorism. Violence comes with the territory. You expect nothing less. What is subversive is the anarchic message, Tyler's contribution to mayhem.

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Pitt hasn't had a role as luscious and meaty as this since Kalifornia. He revels in its juices. Norton was stunning in Rounders. He is startling here. Bonham Carter ignores her debt to Merchant Ivory and reinvents the English bluestocking as a North American gutter cat.

The film explodes with energy, invention and excitement. It leaves the audience squealing for oxygen.

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