The Fan
1996 Directed by Tony Scott
Synopsis
Fear strikes soon.
He is the one they look for when the Klieg lights blaze, the one whose picture hangs on the wall. His presence hits them like a drug. He is the light and the glory, a reason to live... even die. They are the untold millions whose adoration translates into magazine covers and multi-million contracts. They are the sea of faces rendered invisible by distance, blurred together by their sheer mass, kno
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De Niro is awesome and Snipes really is great. But De Niro is awesome. So good.
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A good underated thriller with Robert DeNiro as Wesley Snipes' Fan, both deliver good performances -
De Niro is brilliant in this!! I can't believe I never watched it until today. Cheesy in all the right respects and totally underrated. It's not great, but unfairly maligned, I'd say. RIP Tony, your legacy is lengthy.
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I realised while rewatching this that it works as the third in an unofficial trilogy for Deniro. First we got Taxi Driver, then we got The King of Comedy, and third we got The Fan. All three films feature Deniro playing an isolated and obssesive character, and in each one the main character ends up acting out in a extreme way.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Why would I ever think that a movie about an obsessed baseball fan stalking a player for the San Francisco Giants that's obviously based on Barry Bonds would be a good movie? Well how about because the obsessed baseball fan is the taxi driving raging bull Robert De Niro and the Barry Bonds inspired player is tax evading vampire hunter Wesley Snipes? Oh hells yeah now you know we got a good movie on our hands.
De Niro is pitch perfect (no pun intended) as Gil Renard the obsessed Giants fan that believes that the signing of the top free agent in the game is finally going to turn his teams loosing ways around. Unfortunately when he starts a lack…
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Ne pati spīdošākā Tony Scott filma, bet tīri pieklājīgs, skatāms trilleris par beisbolu, slavu, apmātību. Varbūt šādas, tādas detaļas filmā nepatika, bet patiesībā izbaudīju to no sākuma līdz beigām un nebija nemaz garlaicīgi, lai gan filma tiek vērtēta diezgan zemu. Wesley Snipes ir labs, bet Robert De Niro dominē filmā, jo ir ļoooti labs, kompleksainā, apmātā, brīžiem bailīgā un nepatīkamā filmas varoņa portretējumā.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I appreciate this even more now i've been to the Bay and to a Giants game.
De Niro's character haunts me and is fearfully sublime in yet another stella and in my opinion overlooked performance.
I love seeing his gradual downfall unfold.
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Another film well-suited to Tony Scott's rapid-fire directing style, The Fan is a surprisingly interesting and entertaining psychological thriller. It works primarily because of a tight script and a pretty unsettling performance from Robert De Niro, which benefits both the character he plays and the situations he gets into. Wesley Snipes is decent, and the last half hour may become too formulaic, but the rest of the movie is worth it mainly due to De Niro and an intense script.
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Still don't know what it is about this film. It's pure schlock, but I love it, and genuinely think it's De Niro's greatest performance.
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Average thriller with good cast.
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Tony Scott must have been one of the most wildly inconsistent filmmakers to have moved around the planet, and was probably beaming proud of it.
The Fan is nothing at all to be proud of, unfortunately, and I sure hope the late Scott rues it in the afterlife. The screenplay is a heap with a retarded finale that tries to dig for pathos out of the blue, think superior baseball-related efforts like The Natural's leftovers developing bacteria. The supporting cast is a bust other than John Leguizamo, and the bad writing even gives Wesley Snipes the cold shoulder. It's impossible to even feign interest, let alone for real, in his star baseball player for a minute when the movie…
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One of the last great De Niro performances before he got fat and stopped caring. Get's a bit too Tony Scott at points with the soundtrack pumped up to 11 but the near 2 hours flew by, the guy knew how to entertain.
A reminder also how good Snipes was at this kind of thing, his descent into straight to DVD/prison (essentially the same thing career wise) is pretty sad.
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Why would I ever think that a movie about an obsessed baseball fan stalking a player for the San Francisco Giants that's obviously based on Barry Bonds would be a good movie? Well how about because the obsessed baseball fan is the taxi driving raging bull Robert De Niro and the Barry Bonds inspired player is tax evading vampire hunter Wesley Snipes? Oh hells yeah now you know we got a good movie on our hands.
De Niro is pitch perfect (no pun intended) as Gil Renard the obsessed Giants fan that believes that the signing of the top free agent in the game is finally going to turn his teams loosing ways around. Unfortunately when he starts a lack…