BBM at the movies - Fight Club review

       Fight Club       Bush - 8.5
       Score - 8.33        Bates - 8
                                 Maher - 8.5
   1999
   138 mins
   dir - David Fincher
   stars - Edward Norton          - Narrator
             Brad Pitt                    - Tyler Durden
             MeatLoaf                   - Robert Paulson
             Helena Bonham Carter - Marla Singer

Edward Norton plays an insomniac who is bored with the way his life is going, he hates
his job and his boss and is looking for something different. He realises that the only thing
that will allow him to sleep at night is when he goes to his support groups but the insomnia
soon returns when another "faker" called Marla shows up at one of his sessions. Shortly
after this he meets Tyler Durden on a plane and after ringing him out of curiosity some
time after this when his appartment mysteriously blows up, they go out for a drink. In the
carpark on the way home Tyler asks the narrator to hit him as hard as he can in the face
and this is when the Fight Club is born.
   From here we see how Fight Club develops from this carpark incident into an nationwide
underground phenomenon and it's subsequent descent into complete lawlessness as the
members of Fight Club, now a highly organized malitia attempt to blow up the headquarters
of the major credit card companies.
   The success of Fight Club can be put down to the fact that it is such an original film
which stars two great actors each of which gives an excellent and memorable performance.
It is a kind of (very) dark comedy-satire which maybe you would think would be hard to
pull off as successfully as it was, but the director David Fincher (who also directed Seven)
does a sterling job creating a hugely enjoyable film in both the visual and story aspects of
it, consequently there is not a dull moment a film that you could watch time and again, and I
suggest that you do.