Fear X

Starring:John Turturro, James Remar
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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Product Description
When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

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Running Time 105 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Great build up---to nothing
Almost art
Very wierd and different
Subtle, multi-layered, requires some real thought
Don't you just hate it when...

Fear X
Starring: James Remar , Deborah Kara Unger , William Allen Young , John Turturro , and Jacqueline Ramel
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00079HZQQ
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Product Description

When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

System Requirements:

Running Time 105 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Great build up---to nothing.......2007-06-03

This film was expertly made and filmed. Great tension and very dramatic acting. What ruined it for me was there was not an explanation at the end. We know they wife was killed by accident, but why? Who? What was the cover up? No questions were answered, and that made me feel like my time was wasted on a good looking movie, poorly written end. Not satisfying at all.

To me, if you make the best looking film out there, and it doesn't make sence, you're not a good film maker.

Almost art.......2006-12-15

The whirl of uncertainty surrounding Fear X reminded me of Eraserhead, a David Lynch twister. Eraserhead, however, maintained a sense of 'what the heck's going on' while still inserting interesting symbols in a completely odd storyline - absolutely nothing normal. Fear X mixed reality, normalcy and artistic wierdness - a combo that doesn't work as well. I did follow the direction of the film, not the plot, but the unusual unfolding of the mindset of a man desperate for answers. Since there was a plot, leaving the audience unsatisfied was more of a cruel tease than an artistic twist. John Turturro did an excellent job in his role. The external features of the film reflected well the desperation within the main character. I think the film would have actually done much better if not for the moment during which there was an obvious attempt to explain what was happening. If your film is wierd, leave it that way. Explanations simply make the film like half-cooked meat, it's almost there, but not quite what it should be. Fear X was a mix between Eraserhead and The Machinist. It failed to slide into a proper category.

Very wierd and different.......2006-12-04

This movie was very wierd and different to me. What I was seeing was the mental breakdown of the husband who's wife was murdered. If you look at the movie in that aspect, it could be very interesting. Other than that, the movie didn't make much sense. The ending was an odd ending too.

SPOILER ALERT
There wasn't any resolution to the ending. For me, it was just a cover-up of the police force that was getting rid of crooked cops and the wife was an "innocent" that was killed by accident. If you are into different and in an "indifferent" mood then this movie is for you. Otherwise, try another movie.

Subtle, multi-layered, requires some real thought.......2006-03-28

At first viewing, this film seems, to be blunt, somewhat lame. Then you think about it. And then you realize it's absolutely not lame at all. It requires some serious mental input, but the rewards are there, definitely.

This is not a trickathon flick like Memento. It's a much more subtle work that digs into you once you get what's really going on. The core of the film is, Is what we experience "real" or is it what we THINK is real?

While it may appear initially that this question only applies to the protagonist, Harry Caine (John Turturro in an excellent performance), that's definitely not the case. The "bad guy", played by James Remar, a cop, is--if you think about it hard enough and pick up the clues--definitely experiencing the same mindset as Turturro's character. You have to put the pieces together. When you do, it's fascinating.

Harry Caine has been experiencing tremendous grief after his wife's murder. Understandably. Part--a big part--of that grief is hallucinating her presence standing next to him in the bathroom, standing just outside his house, comforting him in the bedroom. He is absolutely obsessed with finding her killer.

There is something--we don't exactly see what initially--about his next door neighbor--another cop (i.e., not James Remar's character) that leads him to break into the man's house when the owner is not there, where he finds what he thinks is a clue to his wife's death. He pursues that clue and ultimately runs into the James Remar character who may or may not have been responsible.

The viewer has to pay very careful attention to the details here; details is what this film's all about. The ending scene itself is, when you think about it, a fitting piece of the puzzle (no, I'm not giving away the ending here). So this is really, one thinks, a story about retribution...or is it? In fact, it's really a story about attempting to bridge the gap between what we experience and what we mentally create as experience.

That bridging of the gap does not always happen. Or sometimes it does happen and we can't handle it. Or sometimes it does happen and we handle it in a way that we think is the right way and then find out later--guess what? It was not the right way at all, after all. Not at all.

A fascinating film, this bears more than one viewing to see what is really going on here. The screenplay was written by noted "underground" American writer Hubert Selby Jr. who has done a masterful job of piling on the layers and the subtlety. The director is Nicolas Refn, a Dane whose first film, Pusher (Danish) won kudos for both the director and the star, Kim Bodnia.

Much better than you might expect--but you definitely have to make the effort to see what this is really about.

Definitely recommended.

Don't you just hate it when..........2006-02-21

...you are watching a movie, you're feeling kind of lost, almost dumb, that you don't really "get" what's going on? This is one of those movies. Typically I try to push through and finish the film to see if I can make some sense out of the story, but no luck with this one. My wife and I felt like this was a waste of time. I spent more time looking at the display on the DVD player seeing how much time had elapsed, because I was that much closer to finishing this movie!

I would not recommend this movie, their are many better movies out there. If you can figure out what this was about, please add it to these reviews. Good luck!

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Fear X [Region 2]
Starring: John Turturro , Deborah Kara Unger , Stephen McIntyre , William Allen Young , and Gene Davis
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002HSE0O

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