Review of Fear X

Fear X (2003)
1/10
Fear what? Fear "Fear X"!
24 September 2004
I wanted to like this movie, i really did. I am a fan of Lynch and movies with a slow pace that gradually build up, but i am sorry to say this movie is total garbage.

Try as i might there is no sense to this plot (!), i have read some opinions but ultimately they are all simply made up by people trying to find some meaning in the hour and a half of their lives that went down the drain.

This plot looks like a dog chewed the scripts of "Memento", "Lost Highway" and "1 Hour Photo", someone picked up the remains, glued them up and said to themselves "wow, this would make an interesting movie". It doesn't.

There is no point in talking about plot holes, there is no plot, that is the surprise ending. Or it would be if it wasn't so obvious halfway through the movie that it would lead nowhere. Saying it has a slow pace is an euphemism, a turtle on Thorazine moves faster than this. And what for? Does it lead anywhere? NO! It just goes nowhere slow...

Gosh, i have seen some bad movies in my life, but most have some redeeming quality to them, and those that don't are so bad that it becomes obvious it wont be worth your time and you simply drop them like a sack of bricks. This movie starts in and interesting direction but after 1/3 of it you start thinking that the director is lost. He isn't lost, he just has nowhere to go, simple as that! And that is how you watch the last half of the movie, with the conscience that it will end up going nowhere and that the director is just playing with you to gain enough time to fill up the 91 minutes.

This is the lowest rate i ever gave to a movie 2 out of 10, it's just too bad to be true

Avoid it like it where an Ebola carrying monkey. Do something more useful and interesting with your time such as finding anagrams for newspaper headlines.
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