I really like this movie, although many people say it's too much stereotype. The story is simple - a wealthy middle class family consisting of star architect William "C.S.I." Petersen, his beautiful wife and car and house and two kids, one of them beautiful young Reese Witherstone, are threatened by a wicked high school dude, played by Mark Wahlberg. As Wahlberg starts dating Witherspoon, she realizes too late that her new flame is a violent and weird psycho, killer and gang leader who soon becomes a real threat to the whole family... and it didn't last long until good and evil faces in an all destroying fight...
The story is quite simple, but it really works. The direction is thrilling and fast-pacing, Carter Burwell's soundtrack is a menacing, gloomy score in the wake of Bernhard Herrmann, and the actors are really good, especially Petersen, Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg who portraits a really disturbing character miles away from his former New Kids On The Block and Markie Mark pop star image.
The songs featured in this film are also really great and a good selection of groovy mid-nineties dance and indie rock tunes. The end is really dramatic and a nice rip-off of "Rio Bravo", "Assault on Precinct 13" and "Straw Dogs". Sit back and be thrilled, and after watching "Fear" you won't listen to you old NKOTB records anymore like you did it during your teenage years. Recommended.
The story is quite simple, but it really works. The direction is thrilling and fast-pacing, Carter Burwell's soundtrack is a menacing, gloomy score in the wake of Bernhard Herrmann, and the actors are really good, especially Petersen, Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg who portraits a really disturbing character miles away from his former New Kids On The Block and Markie Mark pop star image.
The songs featured in this film are also really great and a good selection of groovy mid-nineties dance and indie rock tunes. The end is really dramatic and a nice rip-off of "Rio Bravo", "Assault on Precinct 13" and "Straw Dogs". Sit back and be thrilled, and after watching "Fear" you won't listen to you old NKOTB records anymore like you did it during your teenage years. Recommended.