I am really torn betweena 3 or a 3.5 here. I feel like a 3 but objectively speaking it's a bit better than that and probably my personal taste geting in the way. But yeah....umm...this is something. It's a thriller, comedy, boring drama, and horror movie that feels like a sister flick to Carrie even at times. Which makes sense given the director who is the best thing about this. His direction is solid throughout this. The camerawork and framing at times is really good, the soundtrack isn't bad but I wish it was used more in the first half. Ironically enough the pacing here isn't bad but it can bea bit all over the place. Everything else is just alright about it. This is a stronger film in the first half and actually is kind of good overall. The Kirk Douglas scenes are the best parts which the first half is mostly. Than we get to see his girlfriend, the girl whose psychic powers help track down his son, an explanation of the program and psychic stuff and his son. It's very jumbled, messy, and boring but well directed. The worst part of this is Durning's scenes which are just straight plot expose that goes on for a while and get so boring. It feels like two completely different films. Douglas and everything else with one being clearly better. The plot is just straight insane. The kidnapped son of a former government secret agent who has psychic powers who has a romance with someone involved to find said son. The ending is just crazy also. And than the editing which is something. This has a jumbled but interesting tone. Sometimes it feels like a horror movie, than others a government conspiracy and sometimes I don't even know. Than there are parts that feel like there missing or out of order. We get one 30 second scene of the father and son bonding which felt rushed. Were just thrown into crazy action with no explanation or setup. We don't really see any of Douglas character, the sons, Durning who is just a plot expose NPC, and the women in this are interesting characters but the acting by them isn't anything special to make them stick out. No one important enough really has any character in this it feels like or has time to have any because we gotta keep up with the insane plot which can feel rushed too. Finally the acting is all over the place. Douglas is alright, the son isn't that good and feels like Anikan from the prequels near the end. The women are super forgettable. The bad guys are super generic and have no character either. Than there is jsut straight insane moments like the ending which would be a sin to spoil. It's crazy insanity at times, bizzare tone at times, and solid direction is what somehow makes this entertaining though most of the time. If your a a big fan of any actors in this, or the director, or REALLY out there New Hollywood flicks than maybe check this out. This is one of the craziest things I've seen.

I love how Brian de Palma employs the man-against-the-unknown approach that was successful with Alfred Hitchcock.

A mix bag of a film where it really takes it time to develop the horror aspects of the film and waste a lot of time into so many unnecessary scenes that if you remove them it would have greatly helped the pace of this film.

Very impressive, Compelling, Trashy, Campy, Lots of famous faces in the cast. Memorable John Williams score, Felt nostalgia seeing the vintage 1978 video games, and large screen projection 온라인카지노추천, Amy Irving is so beautiful,

Somehow I never watched this one. I remember people talking about it but finally just watched it. It actually held up pretty well but would have been shocking 46 yrs ago.

Had I not known better, I would have sworn this had to be based on a Stephen King novel! It feels like a perfect integration of CARRIE and FIRESTARTER. But the screenplay and the book on which it is based were written by John Farris. I find the topics of telekinesis and psychic phenomena and that sort of thing absolutely fascinating. The aforementioned CARRIE may be my favorite horror movie of all time. And during the middle sections of this film, I was halfway enthusiastic. However, it takes a good 45 minutes in the beginning to pick up steam, and the last 10-15 minutes are nothing short of horrendous. This is one of the worst endings to a movie ever. I personally would have liked to see Douglas' role excised (it's basically a glorified supporting performance) and see the focus shifted more to Irving and Andrew Stevens, who plays Robin. If crying and widening your eyes are an art form, then Irving is Picasso here. One of the pleasures for me was the quintessential 70s cast with many familiar faces. Look for small parts by Daryl Hannah and THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS' Melody Thomas Scott. But this is among my least favorite of DePalma's films - maybe THE least favorite of what I've seen thus far.

De Palma makes the extremely silly screenplay work, emphasizing violent set-pieces over the tedious psychobabble. Also, I appreciate a movie that knows exactly when it should end.

Never seems to focus on a protagonist so it never develops any of them.

A really bad knockoff of Carrie. Amy Irving just couldn't reproduce Sissy Spacek's performance. And not one of Douglas's better films, but we all have to have wrecks in our lives. Why De Palma would want to do what is essentially the same film twice is beyond me. Don't waste your time, watch Carrie instead.

Great start to the movie, but slowly died to a government conspiracy movie. Lots of big movie stars, too bad they didn't have better material to work with.

I think De Palma can make it much better. The ending is a great joke! I'm not sure whether he used Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes effectively. It's pleasure to see them in a picture, though.

[3/8/21; my 7/3/22 thoughts from memory] Had me in the beginning, had me in the midpoint set piece with the cars, but beyond that it was brutally boring. Culminated in a downer ending that was replete with a disturbing degree of gratuitous violence on a woman, which is a complaint levied toward De Palma for a variety of his films. This is the film that I certainly join those issuing such complaints. Film is just weird and without reason.

Over wrought and over long, "The Fury" is a film of its time, that is the late 1970's, yet doesn't stand up to the test of time. Many scenes are just downright laughable, such as when they're using flash card to test the psychic powers in the Paragon Institute, and the acting by Kirk Douglas is just so over the top. There is an entire chase scene in Chicago that has little to do with the actual movie, other than creating a "The French Connection" like feel - yet it doesn't work. Such is true for the whole plot, since it makes absolutely no sense which thus leads to the whole movie being a mess - and one that goes on for at least 30 minutes more than it should have. Avoid.

Brian Da Palma seemed to really like making movies about telekinesis in the 70s. This film varies because this time it's about controlling one's gifts. Kirk Douglas plays ex-CIA agent Peter Sandza trying to fund his psychic son who is kidnapped by a group called Paragon, he enlists the help of Gillian (played by Amy Irving). A good solid film, though at times a bit silly.

De Palma makes the extremely silly screenplay work, emphasizing violent set-pieces over the tedious psychobabble. Also, I appreciate a movie that knows exactly when it should end.

I love Brian de Palma but The Fury must be one of his worst films. Spy thriller and supernatural horror are in one film. However neither works. The film starts with a laughable action scene and continues with no central charters until the last 15 minutes. While the film doesn't explain many things, it has so many unnecessary /random scenes. John Williams's score is ineffective and doesn't match the film's mood. The film has an amazing cast but because of the terrible script, the acting is very bad. It is very disappointing

Viewed this film as preteen and it is good as a psychic horror with overtones of intrigue and humor. This movie is also a great travelogue of sorts for 1970s Chicago...a lot of the locations filmed have changed or now gone and thanks to Brian dePalma for capturing them. A good film overall.

More than 40 years after first seeing this Brian DePalma sci-fi, horror, drama I returned to it to see how he holds up. Douglas overacts, Cassavetes underperforms as the villain and the movie feels like a museum piece. For DePalma lovers the film is a must for others wait for a re-make.

The best thrilling movie ever made!

Besides a few classic De Palma shots the film drags on.