Effective violent thrille rabout a young girl who dates Mr. Wrong. Good Mark Wahlberg performance.

This is one of my all time fav's, great cast William Petersen did a amasing job as the father. Very good soundtrak with the scenes highly recommend this one:)

Fear? Oh dear, I really don't know where to start with this awfully dull "thriller". I managed to sit through all of it but for a fairly short film it dragged on and on for what seemed like an eternity and the only thing that I was really fearful of ... (read more) Fear? Oh dear, I really don't know where to start with this awfully dull "thriller". I managed to sit through all of it but for a fairly short film it dragged on and on for what seemed like an eternity and the only thing that I was really fearful of was that I might fall asleep with the TV on and waste money on my parents' electricity bill.

With a thriller you are supposed to build up tension throughout the film and then release it all in a nail biting climax that leaves you gasping for breath and on the edge of your seat. It's a fairly simple idea, but Fear manages to botch it up royally.

You are introduced to a fairly tedious rich family, apparantly facing all sorts of problems, and then after about quater of an hour of mindless bitching the daughter meets supposedly the perfect boyfriend. As the guy says himself "if something seems too good to be true it probably isn't", meaning that he is obviously going to be a psycho. So much time is spent on them being "loving" together it doesn't really add anything to the plot except for making you want to throw up. One particular scene on a rollercoaster was particularly distasteful and quite disturbing for entirely the wrong reasons.

The premise isn't actually that bad, they probably could have squeezed a decent movie out of it if they had really tried but they decide to ignore subtley and hit you in the face with the obvious. They could have let the boyfriend slowly display his psychotic side, flashing the audience hints that the girl doesn't notice, so our fear for her grows the more and more the relationship goes on. The more she doesn't know he's fucking mental and the more we do, the more we care. Instead they decide that he is going to display his mentalness right infront of her face by going apeshit and attacking one of her buddys, all because the poor dude gave her a hug.

After this the plot just gets more ludicrous and keeps going round in circles but somehow manages to get to a really promising climax. Just when I thought the film might just be able to redeem itself, the director manages to mess up the ending as well. Brilliant.

There isn't really coherent message to the film and the acting from everybody is well below par. The entire film plays out as an endurance contest for how many cliches you can handle before you are forced to turn the TV off.

Was he still Marky Mark then? That guy from CSI looks exactly the same then as he does now. What the hell is wrong with me for liking this movie?

More of a dark comedy than anything else...but I will always enjoy this film for some strange reason lol

i LOVE this movie!!!

Finally the search for this movie is over, I was over at the local HMV today and bang there it was for 6.99 ( great price) I have looked video shelves up and down for this. Anyways jumped on here and noticed I had the 5 star rating which still stands... (read more) Finally the search for this movie is over, I was over at the local HMV today and bang there it was for 6.99 ( great price) I have looked video shelves up and down for this. Anyways jumped on here and noticed I had the 5 star rating which still stands but no review, so lets rectify that shall we? Alot of my friends always ask me why of all people is Mark Wahlberg in my top 5 best actor list, well watch this flick ( cause this is the one that introduced me to Mr. Wahlberg ) and see for yourself he shines in this as the wayyyy over possesive boyfreind, showing both his caring lovable side and of course the rage in the cage side. Reese Witherspoon also in this does a solid job as well, little did I know watching this way back in the theatre when it was released, that she would become the actress that she is today. Actually all the cast were superb. A very good written thriller that gets you so pumped, you actually feel the anger that is flowing through Will Peterson's ( the dad) mind. My daughter is only 7 I have a few years left of her being only my lil girl before I ummm 'choke choke cough cough have to share her with yeah..... Anyhow over all a 5/5 for sure and now its on my shelf never to leave again!