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Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Teo The movie tells the story of the survivor of an air plane accident that has actually taken place in Sioux City. Jeff Bridges was never better than here and he captured me with his amazing performance. What I liked the most in the film is that it made me think that the battles we give every day in our lives, in order to face our problems, are battles we just have to give, because that's what life is about. A must see!

Maddyclassicfilms Fearless is directed by Peter Weir, has a screenplay by Rafael Yglesias based on his novel and has music by Maurice Jarre. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Benicio Del Toro and John De Lancie.This is a film that lingers in your memory, long after you've finished watching it. The film does a brilliant job of showing how difficult it is for survivors to carry on living their lives the same as they once did. This is a moving and powerful tale of grief, guilt and love.A passenger plane crashes in a field, many people are killed but there are a few survivors. Max Klein(Jeff Bridges)is one survivor. Max undergoes a drastic personality change, he begins to feel invulnerable because he survived the crash. Max cannot reconnect with his wife Laura(Isabella Rossellini), he spends time with a fellow survivor called Carla(Rosie Perez), she is inconsolable after her baby was killed in the crash. Carla was holding him and she tried to strap him in the seat but couldn't, she feels she should have held him tighter and his death is her fault even though it's not. Max's family try and help him but can't. It is up to Max whether or not he rejoins life again.The film features some superb performances. Bridges perfectly conveys the numbness his character feels, and the way that he can't understand how he is still living.I've never been a fan of Rosie Perez, but she is impressive here, she makes your heart break for her character.Isabella Rossellini is strong as Max's loving wife, not fully comprehending what he is going through, but trying really hard to understand.John De Lancie has a small role as Max's friend, who was travelling with him and was killed in the crash.The plane crash is one of the most convincing ever shown in a film, the crash sequence conveys the confusion and the horror experienced in such a moment. It's a shame this film is not better known. I think it's one of Weir's best, it's deeply moving and is a film you don't forget easily. It gives you a sense of how survivors of such things must feel and helps you understand their pain somewhat.Maurice Jarre's score fits perfectly with the film.

DanHakimov What happens after one dies?"Fearless" tries to answer that question through its raw emotions, showing a survivor of a terrible plane crash who becomes truly and utterly fearless. Max, the survivor, reaches some type of spiritual nirvana when facing death directly, and is reborn in a way. However, he feels as if he's already dead, and he sees the rest of the survivors in the same way. This makes for an interesting character study, exploring what happens when one embraces fully both fear and death. Jeff Bridges has by far the best performance in the film, and showed much of the needed emotion to keep the movie afloat. The rest of the cast did a decent job (though I didn't like the child actors), and Tom Hulce was great in his little part as a greedy lawyer.However, I felt the movie lacked some focus at some parts. The beginning was great, and so was the end. In the middle, I felt some ups and downs, and some scenes fell flat in contrast to some of the better scenes in the film. After the beginning, the film constantly flashed religious themes without much subtlety, but those stopped after the middle of the movie. The relationship between Max and Carla, another survivor, was interesting enough - but I didn't feel the actress playing Carla did the best job she could. The psychiatrist was rather superfluous to the story, and Max's wife was rather ignored in the first half of the film and didn't get enough depth afterwards in my opinion. The directing was interesting at times and unnoticeable in others, but it was overall solid. I think the script has the biggest issues of the movie - some of the lines were hideous in my opinion, and the plot itself felt a tad not fully organized. To sum up, even though I found the film good, there were too many flaws in it which kept taking me out of the movie. The ongoing themes of Christianity felt rather annoying and preachy, some characters didn't contribute much to the emotional depth of the film, and some of the dialogues felt extremely fake to me. An interesting viewing, but I felt some aspects could have been handled better.

jzappa Fearless is a fascinating movie about the thin line between fear and rationality. Fear is so much more difficult to overpower, or even sometimes be conscious of, than reason that when we do overpower fear, it is not necessarily replaced by reason, but by exhilarating mania. Jeff Bridges, in one of his best performances, covers a lot of ground in his character, a survivor of a plane crash. Many die, including his business partner. The catastrophe metamorphoses his whole life thereafter. He enters an enhanced perceptive condition, believing he is dead, beginning to rethink life, death, God and the afterlife.Bridges becomes addicted to walking a tightrope over death because it makes him feel as alive and enlightened as he possibly can. But this also dwindles his connection to his family and his life. He begins to have difficulty recognizing the limits of mortality, in some way perceiving himself as more than mere flesh and blood. Rosie Perez, however, in a performance equaling Bridges' in personal reconciliation with her role, plays another survivor, whose baby son she failed to protect from death by the crash. In her own aftermath, she is the unmistakable foil to Bridges' expansive superman complex as a mother who loses all will to live.The two find themselves bonding, sharing a connection that transcends the love we tend to understand, or that Isabella Rossellini, as Bridges' wife, and Benicio Del Toro, as Perez's husband, tend to understand. And as Bridges begins to reach the dangerous peak of his high on existence, Perez is forced to make amends with the world, taking control of shaping herself. The film is a boundless interpretation of an all-encompassingly utilitarian philosophy, a kind of precept that amalgamates the black and white duality of unflappable idealism and hopeless despair.There are peripheral nebbishy professionals played in bit parts by a gregarious Tom Hulce and John Turturro who has as a virtually futile psychologist-for-hire a sort of ironic missionary zeal. We hear Gorecki's beautiful major string orchestra sound. But the film would not have the same kind of clarity, or perhaps even the same themes, without the articulately detailed cinematic expression of Rafael Yglesias' material by the director, Peter Weir.