Fear X

A man searching for the truth about his wife's killer learns more than he wanted to know about her own private story in this powerful drama. Harry Cain (John Turturro) works as a security guard at a large shopping mall in Wisconsin. Harry's life takes a sudden and disturbing left turn when his wife, ...more

Nicolas Winding Refn's Fear X is a disappointingly muddled and derivative "thriller." The genre is in quotes because Refn is clearly more interested in provoking existential questions about the nature of loss and guilt and the relative morality of taking another human being's life than he is in providing thrills and chills. There's also an interesting undercurrent of post-9/11 anxiety with an emphasis on constant surveillance (Harry's [John Turturro] job) and shady overzealous policing ...more