Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

capone666 FearTeenage girls like to date bad boys because the nice guys aren't rich enough yet.Mind you, the young woman in this thriller is doing it to annoy her father.Sent to Seattle to live with father (William Petersen), his new wife (Amy Brenneman) and her son after being evicted by her mother, Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) meets the enigmatic David (Mark Wahlberg).Shortly after the two become an item, Nicole begins to miss her curfew – enraging her father who is already angry over David undermining his authority.By the time Nicole realizes David's true nature, he and his friends have surrounded her home and having begun terrorizing her family.The quintessential crazy ex-lover movie, Fear is not only loaded with outlandish behaviour on the part of the unstable party, but it also showcases Wahlberg's best performance to date.Incidentally, the only guy good enough for a man's daughter is a eunuch.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Raul Faust I spent a few years waiting for this movie to pass on my cable, to get in my video store or something like that, but it never did, so I found a way to buy its blu-ray from the United States-- and that's the best thing I could've done about it! "Fear" has a quotidian plot: father and daughter issues, forbidden date, overly protecting parenting and so on. Even thought such subject has been used a lot of times in films, this is probably the best execution I've seen so far. James Foley gives a STRONG directing that makes you understand what the characters have been into, even if they're not saying it at all-- as an example, I mention the disco scene, in which you could easily see why Nicole surrounded so quickly. The atmosphere Foley builds is quite tense, helped by a very credible and convincing story, making you feel like it actually could happen to anyone-- except for the over-the-top violence in the outcome. Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon proved they can ACT, and they do it with style. Conversations are all intelligent, and spectator is able to relate either with daughter or father-- they both have their points. The photography directing is very nineties, and you don't see much difference from others of the period. All in all, this is a GREAT picture in many aspects, and another reason why we should respect the nineties in movies.

SnoopyStyle Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) is a rebellious teen angry with his father (William Petersen) and particularly his new wife (Amy Brenneman). She parties with her best friend Margo Masse (Alyssa Milano) and falls for bad boy David McCall (Mark Wahlberg).This is an afterschool special with sexed up Reese and Alyssa to hook the public. There is no surprises and no drama. This thing might as well be on autopilot. She goes out with the bad boy and the bad boy turns out to be a bad boy. What a twist! It's a mistake to start Mark Wahlberg off creepy. The character really needs a more innocent facade. I'm willing to buy the afterschool special storyline. But you've got to earn the drama. This didn't earn anything close to that.

sddavis63 There's a lot about "Fear" that's pretty cliché. The charming boyfriend who turns out to be a controlling, violent, psychopathic, obsessive guy who can't let go of the girl he's "fallen in love" with in spite of the fact that neither she nor her family want him around anymore. I can't say that struck me as particularly creative, nor did I find the bulk of the story especially interesting. It does, however, have some things going for it.First, I have to give credit to Drew Barrymore and Mark Wahlberg. Setting aside the fact that both were a little older than the characters they were playing, they were quite good in their roles as the young & naive Nicole and the charming psychopath David who sweeps her off her feet. Both were in the very early stages of their respective acting careers, but the lack of experience didn't show. They were convincing. The rest of the cast didn't really measure up to their standards, but the characters were interesting enough. I could certainly relate to William Petersen as Nicole's dad as he gets more and more concerned about this relationship his daughter is having, even though for some reason Petersen didn't really strike home with me in the role. And I have to say that although the movie almost lost me with the silly scene where David tattoos "Nicole 4 Eva" on his own chest, and while most of the story really didn't make that much of a connection with me, the last 20 minutes or so turns out to be a pretty good ride. It also is pretty standard for this kind of movie - as Nicole's entire family ends up doing battle with David and the bad guys, etc., etc., but it was very well done and exciting.This isn't a bad movie. It's perhaps a bit too much driven by clichés and a storyline that isn't very original, but it's well made and it has enough to keep the viewer interested. (6/10)