Cape Fear November 9, 2006
Posted by Shujath in English, Movies, Reviews.trackback
As you watch this movie, there is only one question which keeps haunting you…why on earth did Martin Scorsese direct this movie? If you actually happened to read about this movie before then you might ask another question….why on earth was Spielberg the first choice to direct such a movie.
The problem with this movie begins and ends with the plot itself. An ex-con stalking a lawyer and his family to seek revenge for the lawyer’s betrayal of him is not really a groundbreaking story. And on that, this was supposed to be a remake of an old movie with the same name. I wouldn’t say the movie was bad, but the screenplay never tries to rise above its below average plot and one cannot really blame Scorsese for that.
Still, when you see the climax sequence and another couple of scenes you might guess that Yash Chopra did get inspired by a few bits of this flick when he made his smash hit Darr. The performances by Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis are just about okay. I don’t really like stalker flicks so that is probably the reason I’ve rated this low. I would have liked this movie better hadn’t I known about the people behind it but coming from Scorsese this is a huge disappointment.
I recently watched this and I know it was a horrible movie the worst Scorsese movie I’ve seen so far. Deniro’s had a Texas accent and everything it was horrible. But I did like the fact that Cape Fear murder is side show bob. Anyways how many stalker films are there that you see.