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Universal acclaim- based on 556 Ratings

  • Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton
  • Summary: The film's narrator (Norton) attends support groups of all kinds as a way to "experience" something within his unfeeling, commercial existence. On a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt) who encourages them to form a fight club as a release for their latent aggressive tendencies.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 35
  2. Negative: 2 out of 35
  1. Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.
  2. 80
    A brilliantly realized series of sucker punches, a philosophical howl disguised as a muscular guy movie.
  3. 60
    On a purely visual level, it's the most powerful and viscerally exciting movie to come out of Hollywood this year. Which doesn't mean that it's all good.
  4. What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 7 out of 166
  1. Great film; negative reviews here often reflect a sloppy or down-right non-existent understanding of the movie. Case in point: "..spend two hours wondering why the characters would rather punch each other than do something useful with their time and energy." - Alexander G. Now obviously, anyone who was actually attentive to the movie knows that they DID do something useful, and they fought for a reason. Expand
  2. 8
    Fight Club is a great film. It is well made with its interesting characters, fascinating story with a cool/shocking twist, and some interesting ideas about are society are put forth. Only people I can think who would not appreciate this movie are people who are squeamish and whose minds lack the ability to grasp an intricate story (so no little kids). This film is for an older crowd. So overall, I really enjoyed this movie. It kept me engaged, surprised, shocked, and made me think. It is really well made and I will definitely see it a couple more times in the future. With more viewings this film will probably only get better and better. Expand
  3. Llegué a esta película por el camino de laureles que le han tendido todos estos años, y la verdad que después de verla no he logrado entender der el porque de tantos halagos. El tema de crear una revolución libertadora que derroque al sistema neo-esclavista de la sociedad moderna pudo haber hecho una gran película por si solo, pero el enrosque con todo lo demás lo embarra y mas que acentuarlo lo torna largo y cansador. Expand
  4. Extremely over-hyped. The first hour is mind-numbingly boring, the rest is a mediocre story about terrorism with a stupid plot twist which makes you wonder why people joined the fight club at the very start.. Expand

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