Sam Bowden is a womanizing lawyer who has cheated on his burnt out, bitter wife Leigh Bowden. Sam, Leigh, and their 15 year old daughter Danielle have moved to a backwater Florida town for a new start, but Sam is already showing signs of fooling around with his clerk, 16 year old Lori Davis. Meanwhile, Leigh broods at home, venting her bitterness on Danielle. But Sam's unfaithfulness becomes the least of Leigh's worries. Years ago, as a public defender, Sam had a client named Max Cady, who was accused of brutalizing a teenage girl. Sam put up a lousy defense for Max after discovering that Max... was guilty of brutalizing the girl. Now, 14 years later, Cady has been released from prison and he's hungry for revenge on Sam, having spent his sentence making himself well-read in philosophy and literature. Cady's plan is to destroy Sam's career and family. Cady fatally poisons the family dog, brutalizes Lori, and comes close to getting Danielle to sympathize with him, successfully goading Sam into violence. Sam has Lieutenant Eigert, of the local police department, try to harass Cady into leaving town, hires sleazy private eye Claude Kersek to have Cady beaten up, and offers Cady money to simply go away. When all that fails, Sam uses his family as bait to lure Cady into his house while Kersek is guarding the place. It ends up as a bloody mess when Cady sneaks in and kills Kersek. This prompts the Bowdens to leave the house, with Cady following them all the way to the Bowden houseboat for a confrontation on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
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Cape Fear Scorsese revisits this classic 1960s tale of a psychotic's revenge on his defence attorney and his family, and ups the ante with added horror, grand guignol and technical bravura
Martin Scorsese's re-make was undertaken, he says, "as a favour to the studio", and he is certainly working in broad, populist strokes here, stoking up the murderous tension, sacrificing plausibility, and turning in a piece rigid with suspense and psychopathic cat-and-mouse. It's not difficult to see what attracted him to the story. Like most, if not all, of his movies, it's a story of guilt, sin and redemption.
The 1961 thriller had Robert Mitchum playing the murderous rapist, Max Ca...
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Absolutely dreadful film - Not sure how we sat through it, other than to see how the baddy eventually got killed off - which took forever. As horror movies go, this one was just plain silly and we eventually decided it was meant to be a comedy. Pity - it started off looking promising.
To add insult to injury, in the post the next time came Cape Fear 'bonus features'. We did not bother to watch it and sent it straight back. Be warned, if you don't want two doses of rubbish, don't rent this movie.
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"...Scorsese's CAPE FEAR defies thresholds, revelling in its own transgressiveness, using punchy visuals, fast cuts and a pounding soundtrack..."
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"...Nolte acts with blistering energy, and Lange is in top feral form..."
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What an amazing performance by Robert De Niro, what intensity, its a treat to watch this guy act, just brilliant. The movie is great and a must watch. 4.5/5
Awesome movie, Robert De Niro & Nick Nolte both did an awesome job acting, but Robert De Niro was by far the best in this. Maybe my favorite movie of his. A must see, 4/5
