United States, 89 min. | Dir. Clark Gregg | Rated R
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It’s certainly no Fight Club. Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Palahniuk’s flawed fourth novel had the opportunity to be that rare beast: a movie that’s better than the book. Instead, it hews too closely to its source, and as such, it bears the burdens of the novel. Some scenes—a staged faux-rape, an early restaurant scene—sparkle with ingenuity, but there’s too much listlessness and “who-am-I-really” whining going on to make everything really click as a film. Sam Rockwell makes his first major career misstep as Victor Mancini, Choke’s protagonist. He’s too old to play an aimless young man, and his attempts to be sleazy-but-sincere fall flat. For diehard Palahniuk fans only.
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