The Fury
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, John Cassavetes, Kirk Douglas Brand: Fox DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 120 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-09-04 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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Movie Reviews of The Fury
Movie Review: I BOUGHT IT AND I'M "FURY"-OUS!
Summary: 2 Stars
Having not viewed THE FURY for nearly 20 years, I very recently purchased a copy of it from Amazon to see if it had improved with age. Let's put it this way: Fine wine it ain't!
This is fairly typical of much of the simple-minded bovine excrement that Hollywood began churning out in the 1970s and masqueraded as "entertainment." It's a psychological thriller/horror mutt that will "entertain" 14-year-olds who are fascinated by the sight of people blowing up or bleeding from various bodily orifices. Otherwise, it hasn't got much going for it. The story revolves around a man (Kirk Douglas) whose psychic son (Andrew Stevens) is kidnapped by a rogue U.S. Government agency for the purpose of conducting mind-control experiments. Douglas enlists the help of another psychic teenager (Amy Irving) in order to locate his son.
Yeah, it's just that simplistic and it's B-O-R-I-N-G!
The only semi-legitimate excuse for spending 2 hours watching THE FURY (as so many of my fellow reviewers have observed) is to get an early glimpse of a few performers who later went on to become household names, including Dennis Franz, Daryl Hannah, James Belushi (?) and Stephen T. McCarthy. (Well, I'm a household name around MY house!) Yeah, that's my 18-year-old, mop-haired profile as I sit back-to-back with Amy Irving and we wordlessly play a 30 second game of flash card mental telepathy. I remember that day vividly; the girl kept coming-on to me. It was so annoying that I couldn't even get into character. Finally Ol' Brian had to tell her to leave me alone. I understand that she eventually SETTLED for a different Steve (Spielberg) after I had rebuffed her every advance. (Aw c'mon! Let a guy feed his ego why don'tcha?!)
If it's a psychological thriller you want, I suggest JACOB'S LADDER; THE SIXTH SENSE; HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE; Hitchcock's, PSYCHO and John Carpenter's, THE THING. Or, if you want your time to be REALLY well-spent, I recommend that you read any of the titles included in my Listmania Book List. But why would you waste your valuable time on THE FURY - a hybrid dog that "EVEN STEPHEN" (T. McCarthy) at the height of his creative powers couldn't save?! (Yeah, I meant that strictly as a joke, alright?)