Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 11
Smart and stylish, Cape Fear is a gleefully mainstream shocker from Martin Scorsese, with a terrifying Robert De Niro peformance.
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1
Smart and stylish, Cape Fear is a gleefully mainstream shocker from Martin Scorsese, with a terrifying Robert De Niro peformance.
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Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public defender, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). Max begins a campaign of harassment against the man and his family because Bowden buried a report that would have in all likelihood acquitted Cady of the charges against
Nov 13, 1991 Wide
Sep 18, 2001
MCA/Universal Pictures
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (11) | DVD (21)
It's hard to understand why Martin Scorsese wanted to remake a nasty, formulaic 1962 thriller whose only "classic" credentials are a terrifying performance by Robert Mitchum and a Bernard Herrmann score.
Smart and stylish.
Top CriticStay away if you're squeamish but, if you do, you'll miss an essential work by one of our masters, as well as two of the year's most accomplished performances, those of Mr. De Niro and Ms. Lewis.
Though Scorsese doesn't always transcend the pulp in Cape Fear, watching him try allows us to share the exhilaration he experiences behind the camera.
It's a helluva movie.
It's a brutal, demonic film with a grip like a vise; it grabs you early, its fingers around your throat, and never lets go.
Scorsese's remake (also hommage in some ways) is inferior to the original 1962 version, though the acting is good, and both Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis garnered Oscar nominations.
Martin Scorsese's loose remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller is an exercise in audience manipulation, with every frame designed to stagger the senses.
It has a lot to recommend it, but did we really need a remake of Cape Fear?
Scorsese cria com riqueza de detalhes um neo noir que, com um estilo marcado, se diferencia de boa parte de sua obra, demonstrando simultaneamente sua versatilidade e seu conhecimento sobre a história do Cinema.
The only thing I got out of this film is a sense of deja vu that I could do without.
In Scorsese's frightfully wrong remake, De Niro seduces a teen (Juliette Lewis), bites off breasts with geek-like fury and breaks the world's record for longest hitchhike on the underside of a car.
Overblown horror-schlocker.
The heart-warming story of a hardened convict returning to exact revenge on the lawyer who put him in jail.
Auteur Scorsese remakes a solid 1962 thriller and turns it another of his fascinating tales of obsession.
Scorsese & Co. maintain a Nightmare on Elm Street kind of tension. And yes, there are a few slasher moments.
I never thought I'd say this, but of all the Martin Scorsese films that I have seen, I have to say that Cape Fear is by far his weakest film. Based on the original 1960's classic, the Cape Fear remake is a borderline decent thriller film with a few horror elements, but it's nothing beyond good. De Niro was good
June 26, 2011
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