Fight Club - Okay

The Movie

The Narrator (Edward Norton) is an office worker with insomnia who has grown tired of his life and decides he is ready to look for something different. On a plane ride, he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) who is a soap manufacturer and salesman. Upon returning home, his apartment has apparently blown up from a gas leak, causing him to lose everything and turn to Tyler for help, a man he has only just met and barely knows. The two start hanging out and eventually start an underground fight club that evolves into something more dangerous and illegal that he could ever imagine. 

The movie starts off with what you would expect to see at a fight club. A bunch of dudes fighting each other for what I am assuming to be fun? Eventually, fight clubs spring up in all the major cities, each one with a particular plan of mischief and illegal activities: vandalism, explosions (yay!), and burglary. It's not until someone dies that the Narrator decides he has had enough of Tyler's games and wants the fight clubs to stop  their  bigger  plan.  What's  the  bigger plan?  They  plan  to  blow  up  a  bunch  of 

buildings thinking that that will end their credit card debt (at least that is what I gathered from watching this movie). When the Narrator tries to stop this grand scheme, he makes a discovery about the fight club that is a big twist. I love twists.

Liked Its & Hated Its

I hated the fighting, the way everyone treated each other, and that nasty house (pretty weird for someone to have a house like that even though he makes soap?). I hated that there was a narrator and that Edward Norton talked to the audience (the only movie I can remember liking with this type of thing is The Big Short - I just don't see a point in having a narrator).

*SPOILER ALERT*
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I hated the fight he has with himself in the parking garage and how it panned back and forth from the security cameras and what he was seeing. I hated when he shot himself in the head - can anyone tell me how he survived that? Was he just pretending to shoot himself in the head to get rid of Tyler? 
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I liked the plot twist and I liked the end explosions of the buildings. 

​Rating

It wasn't until the plot twist that I found this movie even remotely intriguing. The last parts of the movie were action packed, thrilling, and interesting to me. Being who I'm sure is the only person who hasn't seen this movie before, it wasn't at all what I had expected it to be. It was at first, but then turned into something totally different and I'm glad that it did. Still, this movie gets an "Okay" rating from me. I probably wouldn't watch it again. 
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