callanvass Review of The Fan

The Fan (1996)

Tense And Gripping Character Study, That Never Lets Go, With A Fantastic Story And 2 Amazing Performances From Robert De Niro And Wesley Snipes!

[10/10 · 20 September 2005]

This is a tense and gripping character study that never lets go, with a fantastic story and 2 amazing performances from Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes!. All the characters are wonderful, and i thought it was extremely suspenseful, plus Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes are simply amazing in this!. It's extremely underrated and why it only has a 5.4 rating is beyond me!, as it should be much much higher in my opinion!. The finale is incredibly tense, and the people who think Welsy Snipes cannot act, watch this movie!, plus the baseball sequences are awesome!. The scene where De Niro kidnaps Snipe's son Shawn is really quite disturbing, and i loved the mind games from De Niro!, plus The ending was great in my opinion. Snipes does a really cool Barry Bonds impression, and i actually found Snipe's character really likable!, plus the opening narration was pretty cool!. Another disturbing scene is when De Niro visits Del Toro(Juan Primo) in the steam room, and i found the character development to be awesome!, plus the story is gripping and engrossing all the way!. This is a tense and gripping character study that never lets go with a fantastic story and 2 amazing performances from De Niro and Snipes and i say Go see it now!. The Direction is fantastic!. Tony Scott does a fantastic job here with outstanding and stylish camera work, great angles,and lots of other cool shots, plus he kept the film at an engrossing pace!. The Acting is wonderful!. Robert De Niro is AMAZING as always, and is amazing here, he is extremely unpredictable, very creepy,, was always interesting and mysterious, gave me the chills at at certain times, and put a lot of fantastic effort in his role, and in my opinion this is one of his most underrated performances he was amazing!. (De Niro Rules!!!!). Wesley Snipes is also AMAZING as always, and is amazing here, he is extremely likable, very charismatic, was wonderful in his emotional scenes, did a fantastic Barry Bonds impression, gave one of his best performances, and just did an amazing job overall!, he is also a very good Baseball player! (Snipes Rules!!!). Ellen Barkin is excellent with what she had to do as the reporter, she was hot, had an interesting character and just did an excellent job!, i liked her lots. John Leguizamo is a riot and cracked me up throughout, if only he had more screen time!, i loved him. Benicio Del Toro was good as Juan Primo, and did what he had to do very well. Andrew J. Ferchland and Brandon Hammond are both quite decent actually as the kids, and were not annoying at all!, look out for John Kruk in a small role as a teammate. Rest of the cast do fine. Overall Go see it now!, it's so underrated!. ***** out of 5