Rating of
3.5/4
Settle the score
ryan - wrote on 05/23/10
This new re-vamped version of Cape Fear is excellently done. Fourteen years ago is all Max Cady can think about once he's set free out of prison. He has a score to settle with Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). This hatred has been festering in Max for well over a decade and in some aspects it's a justified hatred. I think anyone put in his shoes would feel the same way. That is if your lawyer who's job it was to defend you in court and do everything in their power to get you off the hook or at least try to reduce the time you had to spend in the can. This was not the case with Max Cady, he was denied this right, and that was all he saw it as. Bowden however, thought he was doing the world a favor by hiding evidence in favor of his clients innocence. The way Bowden saw it, (and these thoughts were probably swayed a great deal by him being a father of a daughter himself) alleged rape was what it was. Cady devotes his new life to stalking Bowden and his family. Cady's harassment is so great that it forces Bowden and family to go into hiding. They rent a houseboat and take a trip on the Cape Fear. This is the perfect setting for the movies climactic showdown. They each have a score to settle... Who will come out the victor?
