You know the story already. It's one of these things where there's one character that just blows absolutely everything apart, and from the get-go you're just waiting for it to frustrate and eventually leave you pissed off. It's that Markie Mark movie, Fear. You've seen it before.
Edward Norton's Harlan Whatever charms his way into the heart of a pretty young thing with some fundamental problems at home, and ends up being a nutjob who has it out with the father. This guy, David Morse, seems pretty comfortable delivering these serviceable performances in film after film, doesn't he? Every time I see the guy I'm thinking, "OK, this is the one," but he never quite breaks that shell. Anyway... The movie also stars the youngest of the Culkin dynasty, who totally nails the target-shooting scene with Norton. The two make a wicked team. So. Maybe there were some niceties in there.
David Jacobsen crafts a hell of a film, but I just saw Michael Haneke's Cache, another one of these "Leave me the hell alone," movies. Did anyone see With a Friend Like Harry (2000)? Actually, a film that rides this premise to fruitful success is Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. Where Jacobsen introduces a gun in the first act and fires it in the third, Peckinpah opts for a giant bear trap. Way more badass.
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