David Fincher

*****
5/5

Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller is boldly brought to the screen by director David Fincher. The result is a shocking, provocative and highly amusing macho fantasy, as insomniac loser Edward Norton teams up with seditionary soap salesman Brad Pitt to form a no-holds-barred fight club as an outlet for their directionless aggression. The growing cult's Project Mayhem takes subversive vandalism into the outside world with a series of ludicrous acts of sabotage. Fincher's satrical fable brilliantly plays with cinematic conventions and climaxes with a shock twist. This charged slice of nihilistic angst is a mesmerising ride through the 1990's male psyche, aided by elaborate production design, unconventional editing, startling images and superlative acting from the leads.
 

(1999)   
US   Colour   133 mins