Product: Fear (LASER DSIC, NOT DVD) (1996)
Rating: 1.0
One more silly and grotesque successful movie for teenagers
A pretty, unconscious, teen blonde falling in love with a beautiful, muscled, young guy, supposed to be filled with spirit, but who's not what he seems to be, who's actually a brute, a real psycho, treating women like sexual slaves...We've already seen that kind of story a thousand times, especially in TV programs. In this film it's treated a desperately silly way, we don't believe in it for a single second. What the hell happened to the talentful director of "At close Range"? What interesting elements did he find in such a bad script? All this violence, all these dead people, all this mess, for one single girl... what do you want me to say? It's just too big to be honest. The actors, among them the too rare William L. Petersen (who, after "To Live and Die in L.A.", faced Hannibal Lecter in "Manhunter", remember), here facing another psycho, well played by Mark Wahlberg, do what they can to save the movie from the complete disaster. But the final siege sequence, totally ridiculous (just for one girl??), desperately trying to imitate the one in Peckinpah's masterpiece, "Straw Dogs", ruins all their hopes and efforts.This is James Foley's worst movie which doesn't deserve a DVD release. Don't trust the title: we never got fear, but pity, yes, that's for sure...