….7…8…9…10…You’re Out!!!…Fights Over!!! From the very beginning of the movie, Fight Club attempts to take us on an adrenaline ride. The film starts as a rush of adrenaline is shown going to the brain of the Narrator (Edward Norton) as the camera pans back to reveal a gun being stuck in his mouth. From this imaginative beginning the movie slowly spirals downward to a pool of the dark water and blood director David …showed first 75 words of 594 total…

…showed last 75 words of 594 total…on to tackle another ill of society. Visually Fight Club is a stunning movie. And the acting by the principal players is to be commended. But the story fails the performances by the actors. Taken as individual vignettes Fight Club might have succeeded. Together the scenes come across as a mish-mash of nothing. When you’re done watching the movie there is a familiar smell in the air, but it’s not one of soap.