A male powerfantasy

It truly astonishes me how a film that is in all technical values this excellent can be so crap in it's content. This movie provides us a view of our world so pessimistic, disgusting and revolting that it makes me shrug. Fight Club assumes that every middle-class blue collar worker is some nutcase with pint up rage towards the society we live in and loathes everything within it. It assumes that inside every one of us there is a very, very large anarchy-adoring psycopath just waiting for the right leader. This is a view of the world I so greatly disagree with that it simply puts me completely off the entire picture. The script isn't structured very well either, as the film shifts midway through into a thriller from a dark comedy and that shift is very uneven, and makes the later half of the film so much worse than it needed to be had the shift not been so damn fast and sudden. In the end this movie is a fantastically acted and edited piece of linguistical, sardonic crap that seems to please male audiences with this promise of a barbaric lifestyle that is enjoyable to watch, but would be a bitch to live.

4/10