“Cape Fear” is impressive moviemaking, showing Scorsese as a master of a traditional Hollywood genre who is able to mold it to his own themes and obsessions.
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Smart and stylish, Cape Fear is a gleefully mainstream shocker from Martin Scorsese, with a terrifying Robert De Niro performance. Read Critics Reviews.
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Cape Fear (1991) is a great film. Robert De Niro just nails the role of Max Cady in this. Great story, great acting and very creepy. 5 stars from me.
Cape Fear is a violent revenge thriller, with references and scenes of sexual assault, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro.
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
A small scale horror/thriller hardly compares in scale or stakes to a crime epic. As such, it feels quite small and impersonal in the company of ...
I think it's a great movie and one of De Niro's better performances. I like how much it differs from the original. Even though he is a giant POS ...
This film is interesting because it truly shows how someone can get into another's head, to an extent of constant thought about that person and constant fear of ...
The movie is undeniably gripping and it certainly looks great. Shot by Freddie Francis, director of the Hammer horror flicks beloved by Scorsese ...
Cape Fear is a gloriously pulpy thriller about a defense attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), who along with his family is threatened by a man from his past.