Fight Club (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: original, amazingly well done film
Disadvantages: none

The first rule of fight club is that you do not talk about fight club. Should I be obeying these rules, it would make for one very short opinion. So I guess I'll just waive it for now. ----------------------------- The story ----------------------------- A hopeless insomniac starts going crazy. With the help of Tyler Durgen, begins fight club. This is an underground boxing thing. Though the storyline does not feature heavily around the fightin. ... Read review

Advantages: Great performances and stirring action sequences
Disadvantages: A lengthy running time

...cult-like gatherings known simply as Fight Club. The gatherings take on a militia-style format and soon spread through the country. But as it takes on a violent and suspicious twist, the hero of the piece takes an unlikely action that ends in a revelation that changes his entire perception of himself. David Fincher brings to life an utterly violent screen play that is loaded with testesterone and a musculinity to male bonding that very few films ... Read review

Advantages: Great acting, script and direction. A mountain of extras.
Disadvantages: Twenty five notes is a little bit steep.

Fight Club is without a shadow of a doubt the best DVD I have ever purchased in the twelve months that I have used the system. It is the yardstick that all future DVD purchases I make will have to live up to and let me tell you, it's a near impossible act to follow with a truly great film and a second disk positively bursting with extras. I'll start with the film first. This whole film is laced with wit. It starts out with the stunning opening ... Read review

Advantages: Great Film
Disadvantages: None

...whole world has to be Fight Club. There's only one thing thats better than Fight Club on video...............Fight Club on DVD. The DVD is bursting with extras, but first a note on the film itself. Fight Club is a film unlike any other. It is unique, and it like no other film manages to capture its audience. It could change your life (maybe that’s a little over the top), but it does make you think. Not in the way that Schindlers' List makes ... Read review

Advantages: Superlative film, given the full DVD treatment. Extraordinary.
Disadvantages: The film's not to everyone's taste, and the depth of features might not interest casual viewers.

"The first rule of Fight Club is : Don't talk about Fight Club". Oh. Not even a few choice words for this review? Please? Okay, thanks. Never one to shy away from testing the more extreme boundaries of modern cinema's possibilities, David Fincher's latest foray into the dark underbelly of a troubled male psyche arrived amid a media brouhaha over the film's content. To wit : grown men, stripped to the waist, beating each other to a pulp with ... Read review

Advantages: It can be watched repeatedly
Disadvantages: I don't have the time to watch it repeatedly

Hmmm. Where to start? Ah Yes. The best film ever made, without a shadow of a doubt. Have you watched it? Good. Now go and watch it again. I guarantee you didn't see it fully the first time. I must have watched it over a thousand times and still there are angles to the plot which reveal themselves. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who is reading my opinion and hasn't seen the film, so I'll try to be as plain as possible in my descriptions. This ... Read review

Advantages: great film, amazing extras, attention to detail
Disadvantages: R2 is cut and lacks some of the R1 extras

...the establishment of Hollywood fluff. Fight Club is one of these films. It doesn't care about Box Office grosses, it doesn't care about having beautiful looking stars and it certainly doesn't care what you think. Basically an insomniac (Edward Norton) and mysterious soap salesman (Brad Pitt) instigate an underground club where men come to channel their aggression into brutal fights as a way of therapy. Soon the 'fight club' concept catches on ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastically intelligent plot, very believable characters
Disadvantages: A film you need to watch twice

...you’re free to do anything” A fight between Tyler and Jack becomes a weekly event and soon more people want to become involved. They begin using the basement of ‘Lou’s Place’, there are rules now and there is a name, “Fight Club”. One day Lou arrives and is very angry with what he has found; so angry he beats Tyler up. But shouting and screaming and bleeding all over Lou Tyler wins him around and they continue to use the basement. “We are all ... Read review

Advantages: Film and DVD both excellent
Disadvantages: You will only get truly blown away by it once! ;-)

...be completely unoriginal: Rule One of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club! Useful, non? I was introduced to this film by a friend on USENET with the warning that to get the most out of it one must avoid any prior knowledge or spoilers whatsoever, and if encountering conversations about Fight Club the correct course of action is to place one's hands over one's ears and run away shouting to avoid hearing anything that might ... Read review

Advantages: Truly excellent on all levels
Disadvantages: I can't think of any

...the youth of the 50's, Fight Club speaks to all of us Gen Xers looking for a reason. We all know "Jack" we have all been "Jack" and found ourselves scanning the shelves of Ikea - zombiefied, or eating a sushi for one from Marks and Sparks. I'm sure that we have all taken a little time to re-asses our lives, how we got to where we are and how we are going to get to where we want to go, Fight Club just takes these issues and puts them on the screen ... Read review

Advantages: Outstanding film, performances and cinematography
Disadvantages: A bit violent for some people

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are amazing in this adaptation of the book by Chuck Palahouk. Norton plays the disillusioned office worker who is just discovering the outside world thanks to his new best friend, played with malicious delight by Pitt. Pitt, as Tyler Durden, is everything that Norton's character, Jack, is not - outgoing, charismatic, powerful and, more than all of that, amazingly violent. It is from this that the "Fight Club", a club in ... Read review

Advantages: Free bonus disc, original plot, excellent performances
Disadvantages: Perhaps slightly slow moving.

When I first heard of Fight Club, I wasn't particularly desperate to see it. 'Another run-of-the-mill action film', I thought. I was wrong. Watching it for the first time, I gradually started to realise that this was no ordinary film. Edward Norton stars as Jack, an insomniac who's life is becoming increasingly repetitive and boring. But everything changes when he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap salesman who lives for the moment. Somehow ... Read review