Fight Club (Wide Screen) > Reviews > The greatest DVD package yet?

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Good
Characters / Performances	Outstanding
Special Effects	Outstanding
Soundtrack	Good

Advantages:	Amazing Script, fantastic dialogue, stunning visuals, and incredibly funny and well - observed
Disadvantages:	That anyone without a region 1 compatible DVD player cannot see this yet !  !

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Fight Club has recently been released onto Region 1 DVD, and it has to be one of the best and most comprehenive releases seen yet, toppling "The Matrix" as the "must have" DVD to own!

But before telling you about the mouthwatering goodies that accompany this excellent film, let's talk about Fight Club itself.
Adapted from the excellent Chuck Palahniuk book, David Fincher's "Fight Club" stars Edward Norton as an insomniac, who is dissatisfied with his life. His life is defined by the furniture he owns, and his social life revolves around "single-serving" friends - people he meets on the flights of the numerous business trips he takes. He finds a solution to the insomnia by becoming member of various self-help groups for the terminally ill, but to a cure for the rut he has carved for his life comes in the form of a man called Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt). Tyler is a free-spirited character, the total opposite to Norton, who makes soap has a series of night jobs such as a waiter and a projectionist (a job that allows him to splice single frames of hardcore pornography into innocent family films).

After Norton's IKEA-furnished apartment mysteriously explodes leaving him posessionless and homeless, he moves in with Tyler and together they form Fight Club, an form of escapism for all of the disillusioned males who have lost their way in life. However as the Fight Club grows in popularity, so does it's power and soon it becomes all to clear that Tyler Durden has a much bigger and explosive plan for his regular attendees with chaotic circumstances.

This film is a gritty black comedy, intelligently written and beautifully shot. Brad Pitt turns in an outstanding performance as the liberated and outspoken Tyler Durden. Whilst Norton is also excellent as the film's narrator and lead, who loses everything on his way to hitting bottom. Helena Bonham Carter and Meat Loaf also turn in great performances. Visually stunning, the film isn't actually as violent as the title or the subject matter suggests, and it is worth while remembering that the whole movie is to be taken with a large slab of salt.

The DVD release is a 2 disc package, feature four commentaries all of which are very entertaining and informative, and loads of behind the scenes footage (the majority of which features multiple audio tracks and multi-angle facilities). A comprehensive package for an outstanding film.

I'd say more, but the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club... :)