Yet the grubby story is elevated by a superior cast in both the original and this grimly bloodthirsty remake.

| Aug 14, 2023

The picture's missteps are more than numerous.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2023

Ever shot reminds you that a consummate artist is having a great time remaking a kinky minor classic.

| Apr 21, 2023

Everything is relatively dirty, and no one is truly good, except for this film, it's phenomenal. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 4, 2023

(De Niro) had played a tough guy before, but never quite like this: a very sinister, very jagged, very dangerous character… put that together with Martin Scorsese at possibly the peak of his powers, and it’s a delightful if slightly scary film.

| May 6, 2022

Martin Scorsese wasn't supposed to remake the 1962 thriller, but when he did, he brought along his longtime muse and infused the story with an overwhelming amount of trademark chaos...

| Nov 20, 2021

It's a mess, really. But what a mess! Why do we call Scorsese one of the great filmmakers of his generation? Because, like all the great ones, even when he fails he fails with style and with wit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 17, 2021

...an exceedingly pulpy and over-the-top thriller that's been suffused with a whole host of appealingly less-than-subtle elements...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2020

Scorsese/De Niro revenge thriller has sexual violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2020

The wrath of De Niro, especially when pitched to the level of a jangle-brained Jehovah, is a mighty thing, but, in this case, its inherent cartoonery capsizes this film's small-story frame.

| Nov 19, 2019

It gives you a pumped-up, thrill-happy ride (assuming you have a stomach for violent pulp) but it doesn't linger in the mind as Scorsese's richest movies do. It's a swell B movie dressed in haute cinematic couture.

| Feb 7, 2018

Tedious remake of a "thriller" that wasn't that thrilling to begin with

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2017

shows brilliant work with suspense, sound, matte paintings and violence

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2013

Scorsese's remake (also hommage in some ways) is inferior to the original 1962 version, though the acting is good, and both Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis garnered Oscar nominations.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 20, 2012

Proves that when a maverick virtuoso like Scorsese sets his mind to it, making ''mainstream'' movies is one more thing he can do better than just about anyone else.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Martin Scorsese's loose remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller is an exercise in audience manipulation, with every frame designed to stagger the senses.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 24, 2011

It has a lot to recommend it, but did we really need a remake of Cape Fear?

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2011

It's hard to understand why Martin Scorsese wanted to remake a nasty, formulaic 1962 thriller whose only "classic" credentials are a terrifying performance by Robert Mitchum and a Bernard Herrmann score.

| May 24, 2011

Smart and stylish.

| Aug 7, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2008