The Fan

De Niro is goddamn crazy and Del Toro is good. It all feels too B Movie-ish though.

Bobby Rayburn is clearly supposed to be a stand-in for Barry Bonds, but Bonds himself is namechecked in the movie. despite being on the Giants at the time this film was made, he is not shown in the film, nor does he appear to make an impact on any of the games. I consider this incredibly unlikely, as Bonds holds the second highest WAR of all time on Baseball Reference, just barely behind Babe Ruth. boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder

De Niro stalking Barry Bonds is kinda entertaining I guess.

De Niro does a good job acting like a nut, as this seems to be something he can really excel at. Still I found his stuff over the top, and got tired of it. Maybe that's because he felt like he needed to carry this film, since Willy Mays Hayes just wasnt that special. The storyline was over the top. The ending was funny for me. The problem was that I don't think it was supposed to be. That is why I had decuct points from it's final score. Final Score: Fan Flops

2

that sucked, robert deniro was okay, the rest was just really bad, bad story, del toro, snipes and leguizamo were bad

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The tension is never present, and for a thriller that's a failure.

Really underrated tbh. Very entertaining, with great style and performances. Love the look of this movie

Wow! the greatest method actor of all time De Niro rocks! he's really terrifying in this. I'm scared :)

Viewed September 10, 2021. The movie is a riff on the troubled character studies of Taxi Driver or The King of Comedy crossed with a typical mid-nineties American action movie. This is an odd combination on paper, especially when De Niro's madness is being played for laughs (there are a couple of sequences where his over-the-top antics gave me Adam Sandler vibes), but Scott really does direct the hell out of it.

Poorly made thriller is saved only by a pretty great turn by DeNiro. Snipes is embarrassing, and the movie runs its predictable, sometimes laughable course.

It sucks, plain and simple. No tension whatsoever.

Critics lambasted Scott's flashy style, but the real problem is a 3rd rate script that gets sillier as the film progresses. As it stands, it's a predictably well crafted film with decent performances. Deniro has played psychos better before, but he is effective here, and it's a shame that his character isn't more fleshed out because there are some interesting layers that were unexplored. Snipes holds his own against the former acting heavyweight, and the rain soaked finale is top flight Scott.

#90s#, story, (dir Scott), casting.

I never thought I'd hate a sports movie. And this is with my +10 sports movie bias.

Seriously?

C-

OMG what a pile of steamy shit!

The director's "rock 'n' roll" approach to filmmaking results in what, for a while, seems like an efficiently-made thriller that is constantly on the move, but as it progresses, the absurdity and predictability overwhelm all else, increasing the tedium and leaving the viewer with the unsatisfying feeling that the pace is continuously slowing, and eventually relief when it finally grinds to a halt.

DeNiro is surprisingly good in a non-Scorsese flick, too bad it's this one.

Decent thriller, bad baseball movie. De Niro does his usual good work, but Snipes just never comes off as that emotional. Del Toro is actually perfect here, though, and hey - John Kruk appears here, too.

It's a crappy thriller, but I enjoyed De Niro being a crazed super fan. I mean no one's going to be a super fan of Snipes, but that's the thrilling part right?

crap

A pretty typical plot. No surprises here, if you're into that sort of thing. I hated it, though.

48.500

The cognitive dissonance of Snipes as Bonds, but Bonds as a nice guy and family man, is too much. Also the endless continuity errors during baseball shots (the announcer says "Hernandez winding up..." when the man on screen's jersey clearly says 'Casey') makes this an unbelievable watch.

Sir Tony gives his usual flashy style -- this film looks beautiful --, but The Fan is ruined by a lazy script and some bad acting from Snipes. De Niro just reprises and tries to top old roles -- from King of Comedy and Cape Fear, I guess --, managing to keep this in a watchable, very entertaining level.

Another guy goes crazy film that doesn't really cut it.

I liked it then. Not too much now. I have it on VHS

Soooo stupid, but Robert De Niro plays his part hilariously.

The only reason I like this movie so much is because of how amazingly horrible it is. I really don't understand how a great actor like robert denioro took on a role like this.

There aren't a lot of movies where the best scenes involve calling into a radio show...Pontypool feels like a cheat because that's the whole movie, Play Misty for Me isn't about the dj scenes at all, and Fraiser was a TV show. Why are you bringing it up?

De Niro is great. The movie, however, isn't.

Not bad.

Lost somewhere in this mediocre 90s thriller is a stinging treatise on fragile masculinity--which has got to be the reason De Niro signed on--but what starts out like CAPE FEAR eventually turns into SUDDEN DEATH (sans that flick's giddy sense of fun). Tony Scott's direction trends too far into the Michael Bay end of the spectrum, a realm he would thankfully leave behind.

44.000

Pretty bland and forgettable.

Ridiculous and devoid of any intellectual merit. But hey, Bobby D. is in it and I like baseball, so whatever.

Okay Movie

What favor did Deniro owe WHO?

The spit takes in slow mo are mesmerizing

The basic idea is good, but unfortunately the story is uninteresting to follow. Some scenes should be cut away or something.

Little league really did a number on DeNiro. Retarded movie. What was with the music in this, that "I wanna fuck you" song would start playing when deNiro was with kids, guys in saunas, and oh. OHHHHHHHHHHH.

There aren't many movies I've been unable to sit through, this is one of them.

hokey

It builds through intercutting exposition extremely well, and most of the time is engaging as a study of sports celebrities and their relationship to fans, but in a flash gives way to standard psycho-thriller conventions and Tony Scott's requisite action climax. The film almost worked though because it relies on Robert De Niro's eponymous performance, an interesting variation on his gallery of unhinged loners, albeit one that could've truly blossomed in better hands.