Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 128
minutes
Year:
1991
Starring: Robert De
Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck
Description: A convicted rapist (Robert De Niro), released from
prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer
(Nick Nolte) who originally defended him.
Review: This remake of the 1962 film of the same name was directed by none other
than Martin Scorsese, who demonstrated for the first time that he could create
an atmospheric thriller.
Max Cady is a convicted
rapist, who is released after fourteen years. He starts stalking Sam Bowden and
his family, because Bowden was his lawyer.
What makes this film so
compelling is Robert De Niro’s extremely unsettling portrayal of Max Cady. He
rightly deserved and Oscar nomination for his role as this psychopathic stalker,
and this role is still considered one of his best to this day.
Scorsese himself was a big
fan of the original and wanted to give it his own twist so that it wouldn’t resemble
the original too closely. The result was certainly successful, as it contains
many typical Scorsese aspects and he definitely gave it his own twist. The
acting is great, the atmosphere is dark and grim, the story is well constructed
and the final scene on the boat is really good.
Rating: 4/
5
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