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Feardotcom This is the movie that spells out the acting hierarchy in Hollywood. If you can't get Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Tommy Lee Jones, Leonardo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin, Billy Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Vin Diesel, Bernie Mac, Bill Murray, F. Murray Abraham, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Matt McConaughey, Robert Duvall, Julia Roberts, or Sinbad, you turn to Stephen Dorff to be the male lead actor in your film. And what you get is something as horrible as FeardotCom. Dorff stars as Mike Reilly - a NYC detective haunted by the case he couldn't solve - and Natascha McElhone (who is way too gorgeous to be a bureaucrat) as Terry Houston - the NY State Health Department's investigator helping him on a new, equally intriguing case. People have been mysteriously dying, but it doesn't seem to be caused by a virus. The only commonality in the cases is that they have all visited the same web site. Can Terry and Mike solve the case? How is this related to Mike's old case? Are you a logical person who enjoys good dialogue, an interesting story and compelling acting? Then go see something else because FeardotCom lacks all of that and it isn't very scary. In a summer where M. Night Shamalyan scared the wits out of people by barely showing anything in Signs, director William Malone fails to scare us with any of the visuals that he throws on the screen in FeardotCom. The story is barely there, and falls apart under the weight of it's own nonsensicalness (Is that a word? Spell check says yes, but I'm not sure). Without giving away the ending, I'll just tell you that what happens is hard to explain if you think about the motivations. None of the actors stand out and most of the scary stuff is laughable. This would have been a great parody of a B-movie horror flick, if the comedy was intentional. Grade: D- Copyright 2002 - WaffleMovies.com
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