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Overwhelming dislike - based on 20 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 38 Ratings

  • Starring: Natascha McElhone, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Rea
  • Summary: A brash young police detective (Dorff) joins forces with a beautiful, ambitious Department of Health researcher (McElhone) to find the answers behind the mysterious deaths of four people who each died 48 hours after logging on to the Internet site Feardotcom. (Warner Bros.)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 20
  2. Negative: 16 out of 20
  1. 50
    Strange, how good feardotcom is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see.
  2. As scary and minor-chord heavy as FearDotCom can be, there's no big payoff, no logical resolution.
  3. 30
    There's a germ of an interesting idea here, but it's smothered by gloomy cinematography a la "Seven" (1995) and grating implausibilities, like the fact that everyone lives in the kind of cavernous, dankly art-directed dumps that only internet millionaires and trust fund twinkies can afford in the real New York.
  4. The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 22
  2. Negative: 14 out of 22
  1. KeenanS
    8
    Despite what people had to say about it, I really enjoyed this horror flick. I liked the creepy special effects and strange imagery. The actors weren't too shabby and the music was rather enjoyable. It may not have a mind-blowing plot, but I was kept interested throughout the film. Despite the negativity, I still really liked it. Expand
  2. This movie was extremely boring and senseless there isn't nothing positive about this movie. The movie begins confusing and then you realize that it has a mindless plot. Expand

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