Day 212: Cape Fear (1991)

Directed By- Martin Scorsese

Written By- Wesley Strick

Starring- Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Bakers, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck

Critics Review- "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."- Hal Hinson "Washington Post"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 76% Audience- 74%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 1/2 stars

My Review-

This is just one of the many collaborations between two Scorsese and De Niro, and without having seen the original version of this film yet, I quite liked this one. This one of those movies where the main character just scares the hell out of you and De Niro did just that with Max Cady a ruthless and ex convict who is after Nolte and his family. When the movie first starts it pulls you in with the music and the camera angles, and the different camera angles throughout the film keep this up to give us the feel of uneasiness because of always wondering as Cady watching from a far, and if he was ever just going to show up to surprise you. Even though for me this may have been an okay film from Scorsese I still enjoyed it and that was because this movie was all about De Niro and his acting and him taunting Nolte everywhere he went. I do not think this movie would have worked if De Niro had not been casted in the role, and since Scorsese and De Niro have worked before on several other movies it seems like Scorsese let De Niro do what mostly he wanted with his character. Now later on during the course of watching movies I will watch the orignal one so I can compare the two. This has to be only movie where I was actually creeped out by De Niro and I did not find him to be cool, or did I like his character. One of the problems I had with this film was Juliette Lewis' character I found her to be really annoying and I wanted to go and slap some sense into her, since she was making a lot of things worse then they already were. If you want to see one of the several collaborations with Scorsese and De Niro then watch this one since Robert De Niro does make most of the movie, minus the annoyance of Lewis.