This is the thing. It's not that good. After a while I just didn't give a shit. There's a twist at the end, but the twist is stupid.

A horrible adaptation and not too shabby as a standalone movie either. Gregg doesn't have a clue. Rockwell and Huston are good though.

ancak bu kadar sikko bir kitap uyarlamasi yapilabilirdi. onu da sagolsun Clark Gregg yapmis. kendisinin kitabi okudugundan supheliyim.

Hardly perfect but it did keep me interested and it did make me laugh which is more than a lot of movies do nowadays.

It was good, but only a little. I was kind of offput for a large portion of it, because it's one thing to suspend disbelief, but another to try and swallow the shit that this script was dishing out. But near the end, it all gets explained in a satisfying manner. One thing that surprised me was how light this was - its a comedy through and through, barely a dark one, although punctuated with some serious moments. One problem is that it's allovertheplace with lots of threads that go nowhere.

Not horrible. It has decent craftsmanship and acting, but the story is a bit too flat to be too entertaining. Bit of a waste of time. Nothing remotely like Fight Club, the earlier Palahniuk adaptation.

I walked out of Choke feeling hustled, which is appropriate enough, I guess, for a movie that's a portrait of a compulsive hustler.

i dont think it used all it's potential - all different parts of the story deserved a deeper exploration, i think... there could've been more on each topic, but still a really neat movie.

Interesting, well done, and has something to say.

Pretty unbelievable storyline, but it's OK.

A passion project for Clark Greg although a bigger budget would have allowed him to better capture the spirit of the book. This plays more like a romantic comedy of sorts and is entertaining enough. The book however, as usual, is much better.

Good acting, bland directing.

Call me crazy, but I like this Palahniuk adaptation more than Fight Club. Maybe it's the fact that Sam Rockwell is the lead and I am a huge fan, or maybe it's the completely out there plot that doesn't try to shove social commentary down my throat. The book was better, but since I read it afterwards it didn't make me blindly rage all over the film.

Didn't think too much of this. Feels like it's all over the place plus didn't completely get the story. Many points to Rockwell who is beyond sexy and gets naked many times (not completely though but gives a good image) and see him 'having sex'.

Failed to hook me with its unlikable characters and pedantic dialogue. Gave up at the 30 minute mark.

Going in to this having read the book (which was fantastic) and loving Rockwell probably led to unrealistically high expectations, especially for an actor-turned-first-time-director. I'll quote Pickpocket on what, to me, was the essential problem with the movie: "Things that made the book good, like the choking and the sex addiction, were just thrown in as these personality quirks instead of being the driving force of the narrative."

The story is there, and Rockwell has the potential to nail this lead. Somehow, though, this plays out like a TV movie or sitcom. There is absolutely nothing interesting about the direction, the lighting is flushed and artificial looking. The moments that could really make this film hit hard are brought down by the complete lack of style, and over all lack of cinematic rhythm.

rape scene.....LOL !!!

Not bad at all, the usual Palahniuk craziness works this time and Rockwell's and Huston's performances are rock solid.

This movie really plays like a quirky romantic comedy but, I would imagine the subject matter alienates the usual romcom fan. What I really enjoyed was Victor's (Rockwell) interaction with all the other characters. [Tuesday,Tuesday, Tuesday Two Video Store Deal 3.11.09]

Clark Gregg is a fucking moron. Pickpocket's review nailed it.

The end was kind of cool because of Reckoner.

Really disappointing. There were a lot of great ideas in this film, but none of them were executed... instead the plot centered in on perhaps the least interesting element in the story. And, when you name the film after such a clever con, which is so ripe with potentially hilarious situations, you should at least try and work that into your plot somehow. I mean -- the choking thing was introduced, then just completely forgotten about. Lame.

One of the funniest movies of the year. A really devious, fun, sexy experience. [Full Review]

A massive letdown from an excellent book. Sam Rockwell is a good choice for the role but the role is all wrong. It plays out like a romantic comedy more than a black comedy and in the end, the story suffers. Brad William Henke is a good Denny, too.

Good cast, but the movie isn't as good as the novel. It needed to be much much darker.

Good Movie

Dirty, sure, but way too light and fluffy and conventional for its own source material. I like Sam Rockwell, and there's golden nuggets of cynicism and dark comedy interspersed throughout, but compared to Fight Club it's a goddamn Friends episode. The childhood flashback scenes are no good.