I love this movie so much

You won't be disappointed!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I gained knowledge of Fear X from my interest in director Nicolas Winding Refn, after watching Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Neon Demon, I simply wanted to see more from Refn's filmography.Although Fear X is an interesting film, you wouldn't miss anything if you didn't watch this film.Some aspects are great, for instance the introduction intrigued you immediately from the great cinematography. However, the film falls flat on its creativity and where Fear X stands in the industry as well as Refn's filmography.In-comparison to Refn's other films, this is the simplest film I've seen from Refn, the film doesn't require an open-mind, just an interpret-able mind to fill in the blanks.I'd only recommend this film to fans of Refn as well as to people who feel as if they've seen everything.

"The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man." - CiceroDirector Nicolas Refn's first English language film, "Fear X" is an intermittently interesting psychological thriller which stars actor John Turturro as a lowly security guard struggling to cope with the murder of his wife. The film adopts a muted tone, observing from a distance as a grieving Turturro devotes his entire life to finding his wife's killer. But as Turturro scours security footage, interviews suspects and tracks down leads, it becomes increasingly apparent that Refn is uninterested in conventional "mystery movie" dynamics. Instead, Refn turns Turturro's quest into something more existential; man's inability to recover the past, to fully know another human being, to ever map all mysteries and to ever know the full, unvarnished truth. Turturro's therefore on an ontological mission, but reality never becomes clearer to him. What's thus most interesting about "Fear X" (literally, "Fear What?", a fear of the unknown) is the way clues and characters are stumbled upon which may or may not be clues, and who may or may not be relevant characters. By the film's end you are given enough material to piece together at least three possibilities regarding the disappearance of Turturro's wife, but the truth remains tantalizingly obscured. Most criticise "Fear X" for its "open ending", but there's nothing wrong with ambiguity. Ignoring the fact that Refn's ending isn't as ambiguous as it is made out to be (Turturro's wife was the victim of, take your pick: misidentification, revenge, random chance, or a scorned secret lover), the real problem is that, though the film features some brilliant sequences, by its second half "Fear X" begins to feel derivative of more well known films. For example, Refn's shots of Turturro rummaging through security footage recall Antonioni's own ontological mystery movie, "Blow Up", which featured another confused hero fumbling through image banks. "Fear X" also recalls De Palma's "Blow Out", itself a homage of "Blow Up", whilst Refn's gracefully shot "mall sequences" recall the gliding cameras and prowled malls of De Palma's "Body Double". Later, unsettling shots of hotels and elevators recall "Barton Fink" (again with Turturro) and "The Shining", whilst the film's plot recalls "The Pledge", "Session 9", "Birth" and Dumont's "Humanity". "Fear X's" tone also strongly resembles both that of Kubrick's filmography, and modern Kubrick imitators (Dumont, Haneke, Antonio Campos). The film simply isn't as esoteric as it pretends to be. Still, films like "Fear X" are rare, and it does enough things right to forgive its weak climax and cribbed style. 8/10 – Worth one viewing.

I enjoyed Turturo and Remar and 3/4 of the film was top notch i this genre. As others have said, the ending destroyed the movie by leaving too much to interpretation.Theory 1 - Harry Caine and his OCD had a psychotic break with reality which was climaxed at the hotel and his meeting with Remar's character in Montana. Problem with this is why have Remar talking with other characters about the unintentional death of Caine's wife because a dirty cop had to be taken out.Theory 2 - There was a "Code of Silence" conspiracy by law enforcement and everything that was shown to happen(meeting Remar at the hotel, getting shot, going into some rage and blanking out?) and Caine's confession of murdering the cop(Remar) that killed his wife all actually happened but the police covered it up. If so, then where is his bullet wound? How much time had elapsed? This movie worked like a finely built superhighway that was left unfinished.....

This is by far one of the greatest "understated" thrillers of all time...every scene, gesture, bit of dialog seemed to gnaw at me, draw me into a strange feeling that no matter what happens, the feeling of alienation will not go away...yes, there are one or two coincidences that seem a little too much, but if you just flow with it, you will enjoy it without having to know all the answers or have every loose end tied up for you..the photography is first rate, the atmosphere intense, and the acting is refreshingly real for a change....the movie scared me on a level I never expected....I highly recommend this move..some of the reviewers who trashed this movie probably just need to see explosions, bullets flying and chase scenes to be in suspense.....go see it!