Cape Fear

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nina n I've never liked De Niro, but this is a very good film in which his performance takes the lion's share. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/21/25 Full Review Jonathan O The original Cape Fear is good but not scary or thrilling but this new version from Scorsese really terrified us and made it completely different and add new with Max Cady play by Robert DeNiro and his performance is so sinister, clever and disturbing horror villain. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/03/25 Full Review Horror fan 4 Not quite as good as the original it's still a better remake than most that we get. Tim Treakle Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/02/25 Full Review Cecilia S the ratings definitely need to be higher for this one. This movie set the standard for all that came after it Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/21/25 Full Review soul s This is outrageous. How can this movie hold a 75%. This is a Scorcese masterpiece. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/25 Full Review David M To get home from where I walked my date home after seeing this on its original release in the cinema (aged 18, my first year at university), I had to walk through a small, dark park which was badly lit and had plenty of places to hide. I ran through it, imagining Robert De Niro in every bush and behind every tree. The film got to me. Revisiting it now, I understand a lot more than I did then - and still the film haunts and dogs the viewer. Remaking a classic 1962 film, Nick Nolte is the lawyer whose family is stalked and tormented by the rapist he had defended at the trial that sent him to prison 14 years ago. Now he's out and wants revenge. It's a savage, disorienting, dizzying film - the effect of which is twisted further by the similarly dizzying cinematography and editing. De Niro is superb, but the standout is Juliette Lewis as Nolte's 16-year-old daughter. The extended scene between them in the school theatre is an unbearably creepy masterwork, and her whole performance is stunning. I wasn't fully convinced by Nolte, but he does come into his own in the final act, almost silent, reduced by De Niro's ex-convict to his base elements, slugging it out in the pouring rain, drenched and caked in mud. It's a film about how we lose humanity, and how we might try to keep it - and it's one that sits well in Scorsese's stellar filmography. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/15/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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