Fight Club (1999) Critic Reviews

Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and then pulls the rug out from under it. It is sensational. It is also grimly funny.Read the full review

Pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing in the face of an abyss. It's alive, all right. It's also an uncompromising American classic.Read the full review

Bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush of a movie.Read the full review

The sardonic, testosterone-fueled science fiction of Fight Club touches a raw nerve.Read the full review

Begins with that invigoratingly nervy and imaginative buzz. But its chic indictment of empty materialist values fizzles.Read the full review

A provocative experience that lights you up even as it brutalizes you. And I don't even like Brad Pitt very much.Read the full review

It's fun to talk about...but the price you pay is enduring its excesses and pummeled-home thematic points.Read the full review

But the second act is pandering and the third is trickery, and whatever Fincher thinks the message is, that's not what most audience members will get.Read the full review

What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.Read the full review