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Fear X
Denmark / UK / Canada 2003
directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
starring John Turturro, Deborah Unger, James Remar, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young, Gene Davis, Jacqueline Ramel
music by Brian Eno, Peter Schwalm
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After his wife has been killed in a shooting at the mall he works at as
security guard, John Turturro becomes increasingly obsessed with piecing
the puzzle of her murder together in an attempt to understand the same.
He watches the security-tapes of the mall over & over again &
breaks into a house he thinks the killer has stayed in. A photo-strip
found in that house finally leads him to Montana & to a cop (James
Remar), who really - if accidently - shot Turturro's wife when he was
actually executing a corrupt cop (him working for some shady
organization killing rogue cops). Finally, Remar takes a shot at
Turturro ... but Turturro, not dead, gets back at him & kills him.
But did he ? The surveillance tapes of the hotel the murder did takle
place in show no such thing, & no body is being found ...
Only sometimes interesting, even mildly creepy thriller, but obviously
the director tries way too hard to make this one look like a David
Lynch-movie, & while spinning the yarn in a similarly mysterious way
to his idol, this film is totally free of the irony that always
permeates even Lynch's darkest chillers. To that end the open ending
here makes little to no sense.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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