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Nick Nolte
Jessica Lange
Robert De Niro
Juliette Lewis
Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck

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Fourteen years ago public defender Sam Bowden his evidence from his client Max Cady, a rapist, that could have acquitted him. Now, a just-released Cady, smarter, stronger and more psychotic, is ready to take revenge against the attorney and his family. -- Chris Kavan

05/05/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"Cape Fear" by Yojimbo

Brutal rapist Max Kady is released from prison after serving 14 years and sets about taking his revenge on the defense attorney who represented him. Martin Scorsese's remake of classic 1961 thriller came as a real surprise to me; I honestly did not believe he was capable of making something quite this BAD. If I did not know it was a Scorsese, I would have certainly pegged it as a Verhoeven or someone similar. It's schlocky, stupid and tackily directed, and full of ludicrous melodrama that borders on the absurd; in fact on more than one occasion, it looked more like a parody than a genuine thriller. If a character that is meant to be menacing is misjudged, they can often just appear laughable; Buffalo Bill was one example, and Max Kady is another. I was literally smirking half the time he ...

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1.5/4 

01/16/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Cape Fear (1991)

"Come out, come out wherever you are!"

A psychotic newly-released rapist (Max Cady) is stalking and intimidating a lawyer and his family, because he "buried" evidence, that could have gotten Cady off or at least had his sentence greatly reduced had it been admitted in court.

While in jail Cady educates himself and then uses that knowledge of the law to make life a living hell for his lawyer, Sam Bowden (played by Nick Nolte) his wife Leigh, (Jessica Lange), and then goes after his 15 year-old sexually curious daughter Danielle (played by a very young Juliette Lewis). The sadistic Cady`s body is tattooed with a lot of biblical quotations symbolizing his thirst for vengeance. He wants revenge and is willing to take a pound of flesh out of Bowden's family (or a mouthful as he does when...

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3/4 

10/26/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Somewhat thrilling at first, but problems turn up

This film was semi effective for me the first time but it certainly loses all of its semi cheap thrills the second time around. They sometimes just come off as unintentionally funny like when De Niro dresses up as the maid. Many times many of the scenes simply do not hold up under any scrutiny, such as De Niro tape recording Nolte's threat. Did he always have his conversations recorded, did he know he was going to be attacked that time, it is a bit much. Also when he is attacked why honestly would he not just look past the dumpster. Than too many scenes go too far with Cady's invincibility, they simply do not villains from the nineties onward in any realistic way. De Niro keeps coming and talking even though he should have been dead a long time ago.

The angle of the daughter is too mu...

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1.5/4