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Frailty (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 133

Fresh: 98

Rotten:35

Average Rating: 6.9/10

Consensus: Creepy and disturbing, Frailty is well-crafted, low-key horror.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence and some language

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Apr 12, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $13,076,378

Synopsis: FRAILTY is a multi-layered, tightly woven thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton. Paxton will also be making his directorial debut, surrounded by a talented crew led by Bill Butler... FRAILTY is a multi-layered, tightly woven thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton. Paxton will also be making his directorial debut, surrounded by a talented crew led by Bill Butler as the D.P. (Anaconda, Grease, Jaws). Set in present day Texas, FRAILTY centers on the FBI's search for a serial killer who calls himself "God's Hands.”

McConaughey plays Fenton Meeks, a young man who approaches the lead investigator, one night, claiming he knows the identity of the killer. The FBI agent is curious, but unimpressed until Fenton reveals that the killer is his younger brother Adam. In the style of the Usual Suspects, Fenton recounts in a series of flashbacks, how he and his brother grew up in a very loving family, raised by their widowed father (Paxton).

All that changed, the day his father awoke, believing he had been visited by an angel and given a mission to destroy "demons" – seemingly normal looking people, who walked this earth as pure evil. Fenton’s father, and then his brother Adam, swore to carry out this ‘divine’ mission. Fenton refused to participate in the killings and tried to persuade his brother to do the same, but it was obvious to him that they had ‘snapped.’ Out of loyalty however, he refused to go to the police, until now. Believing Fenton’s startling tale of the slaughter of innocents, the FBI agent follows Fenton to the family’s rose garden only to be surprised that neither evil nor innocence are what they seem. -- © 2001 Lions Gate Entertainment [More]

Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matthew O'Leary

Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matthew O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter, Luke Askew, Derk Cheetwood, Alan Davidson, Levi Kreis

Director: Bill Paxton

Director: Bill Paxton
Screenwriter: Brent Hanley
Producer: David Krishner, David Blocker, Corey Sienega
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Bill Paxton, longtime bit-player and significantly underrated character actor, makes his directorial debut with Frailty, a joyless tale of one family's psychotic cycle of violence.

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07/02/08
Todd Gilchrist
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The film's just about perfect.

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06/17/08
Lucius Gore
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Feels like Sling Blade rewritten at a crawl by Stephen King.

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02/13/08
Rob Gonsalves
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08/14/07
Peter Travers
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An overpraised thriller that's really as superficial as a bruise.

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Christopher Smith
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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly

The intricate plotting . . . reveals everything and yet, using the audiences preconceived notions, makes each fact a surprise and each fiction a shock.

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04/05/03
Andrea Chase
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So grim, dim, and formulaic, that there is no room for any kind of visceral connection or genuine suspense.

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03/19/03
Brian Mckay
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03/07/03
Sydney Morning Herald

This looks - and chills - like the start of a very promising new career for Paxton.

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03/04/03
Harry Guerin
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