| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
There's potential here for a macabre cult favourite touching on themes of technology and the body-mind split, but the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase "fatal script error."
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| 40 |
Variety
Never quite realizes its potential to evoke the real horror of the Internet -- Yet, Malone has given the film a distinctive atmosphere and occasional flashes of his perverse sense of humor.
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| 40 |
New Times (L.A.)
If sudden loud noises, relentless strobe lights, digital hallucinations and mutilated corpses make you jump, and you feel that nothing more is required for a good time at the movies, welcome to Feardotcom.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
As scary and minor-chord heavy as FearDotCom can be, there's no big payoff, no logical resolution.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 25 |
New York Post
A low-rent, slow-witted horror flick notable chiefly for its hilariously unsuccessful attempt to pass off Luxembourg City as New York City.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
The film squanders every opportunity (and international-coproduction cent) on by now imitative Nine Inch Nails-video-style visual Goth-goo, and, scarily, forgets to input a plot or script that makes any sense.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
Shameless exercise in high-tech sadism.
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| 20 |
Film Threat
I feel guilty and somehow unclean. And all I did was watch it.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Would have made a hell of a short -- but falls flat on its hyperstylized face as a feature.
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| 20 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Made with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface.
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| 10 |
Film Threat
Eric Campos
This movie is plain stupid from the get go, but at least it looks good.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
The story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized.
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
The film, whose clumsy editing and dearth of establishing shots keep the viewer in an unintended state of confusion, is a corpse in its own right: It’s filled with the rotting ideas of far better movies.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
It is painful to watch an actor as skillful as Mr. Dorff reduced to delivering flat repetitive dialogue that would make any actor look foolish.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery.
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| 0 |
Wall Street Journal
Collin Levey
For the most part, the movie serves up an incomprehensible collage of high-tech voyeurism sprinkled with every hackneyed creep-out trick in the book -- from eerie little ghost girls to melting walls and scurrying cockroaches.
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| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The film is a failure in just about every way, save for its acting, which is adequate.
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