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.

Bruce Banner This film is an interesting character study of a man dealing with fear and death.I watched it because I'm a big fan of Jeff Bridges work as "The Dude" in The Big Lebowski but I was a bit letdown. Here's why:The movie did not deliver enough entertainment value. Thought provoking it was but entertaining- questionable.Also, the way the movie handled its core issues and themes seemed a little heavy handed to me. The old chestnut about script writing that the dialogue should never be totally "on the nose" was not adhered to, in this case to the film's detriment. I found some of the dialogue to be too direct and not leaving enough room for subtext and for the viewer to feel that there is something bubbling beneath the surface. Its always better for the writer to sketch the character's struggles as metaphors and incidental to the story rather than try to force themes to lead the story and drive its dialogue. Additionally, the Director's use of camera shots was a little slow. The style of, "Look at me, here is another important closeup on some random object for longer than we would like," coupled with the writing served to make the movie a bit melodramatic. Aside from Jeff Bridges who does a solid job in a decent role, Benicio Del Toro was very interesting in his minor role as was John Torturro.You will see a lot of rave reviews for Fearless largely because it has a small cult following who were emotionally impacted by it. As a regular viewer with no special connection to the film, I advise you to take these reviews with a grain of salt. They are biased. This is not a flawless film. It is merely an interesting one with a couple good actors. Definitely Not a must see. I also wasn't crazy about Rosie Perez. Her acting was one note, loud and amateurish rather than nuanced and intelligent.