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Fierce People Reviews
| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 9, 2011
divine performances from Lane and Sutherland
Full Review | Apr 19, 2008
...the movie's abrupt (and downright graceless) transformation from jaunty comedy to heavy-handed drama strips the proceedings of any momentum it may have had...
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 22, 2008
With a screechingly affected voice (think Nicholson mixed with a sick Chihuahua), Yelchin is all tiring, syllable-pulling raw nerve here; a blinding pitch that holds the film back from needed dramatic expression.
| Original Score: D | Jan 30, 2008
Director Griffin Dunne, working from Dirk Wittenborn's adaptation of his own novel, pounds away at the analogy between the inherent cruelty of the tribal rituals of the Iskanani and those of the well-heeled.
| Dec 3, 2007
On balance, it's a movie worth seeing with its artistic inserts, appropriate soundtrack and organic performances.
| Original Score: B- | Nov 24, 2007
Smart-but-grim coming-of-age tale best for adults.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2007
Watching the idle rich toy with people can only go so far, then you want more depth and this doesn't have it.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 12, 2007
Miscalculated at every level, it's a vacant drama full of ineptly drawn characters.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 10, 2007
There are lots of potent things floating around in it -- sexual initiation, drugs, fantasy-land wealth, brute violence, primitive rituals, Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland -- but the mix just sits there without producing any notable reactions.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007
Rarely has self-pity become so monotonous so quickly.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007
A buoyant coming-of-age adventure welded to an amiable wealth fantasy.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007
After a promising start, Griffin Dunne's film bogs down and simply turns into a predictable mish-mash of a movie that is shrill and heavy-handed and totally trite.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007
Desperate, manipulative.
| Original Score: D | Sep 21, 2007
The film is way too banal to raise any questions of its own. [Director] Dunne, for his part, doesn't conjure up any kind of inspired visual atmosphere or compelling psychological tension. Nothing is as funny, touching, true, or sad as it should be.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2007
Dunne's messy, unpredictable, yet weirdly vital movie veers from one extreme to another without finding a consistent tone, but Sutherland never strikes a wrong note.
| Original Score: B- | Sep 20, 2007
Fierce People is no ordinary dud. This seedy soap opera is the most outlandish, campy romp through the mud since Showgirls.
| Original Score: C | Sep 20, 2007
The laughs suddenly cease after a brutal rape sequence, and Dunne desperately and vainly tries to re-work the remainder of the movie as a metaphysical coming-of-age story.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2007
The idea that rich people are an alien tribe is just one of many that get lost in Wittenborn's distracted script.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2007