An average film carried by a great actor.

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2015)

Sometimes baseball can be more important than life itself.
Starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes.
Written by Peter Abrahams ( Book ) and Phoef Sutton ( Screenplay).
Directed by Tony Scott.
Sometimes a very average movie can be carried by one great acting performance.
It's never been truer said than in this one. Everything else about The Fan is distinctly average. The plot has been done to death. Obsessed fan becomes a dangerous fan. Obsessed fan has newspaper clippings pinned to his walls. Obsessed fan resorts to murder.
Most of the acting performances are average as well, including Wesley Snipes in what I'm guessing is one of his early acting roles. Or maybe it's more of a case of actors being miscast?
I didn't buy the plot. For the first half of the film the main character is just a terrible husband that seems destined to screw up his relationship with his ex and his son. And then suddenly the movie jumps the shark and he turns into an obsessed fan with a pair of binoculars and a taste for murder. The whole production is a bit of a damp squid but Robert De Niro delivers a good performance that manages to stop the film from hurtling over the edge of a cliff.
An average 6/10 but mainly because of Robert De Niro.