Fear X

Just watched this, the third film from Nicolas Winding Refn (I had previously watched his earlier Pusher, which was just excellent). As for Fear X, starring the excellent John Turturro, it built up quite nicely: a lowly shopping mall security guard spends his evenings browsing CCTV footage in the aim of catching the man who shot and killed his wife.

It had a dreamlike quality to the structure, Refn imitating Lynch perchance? But, then, it ended... I have my idea as the outcome, but it didn't seem to have - as the American's like to say, "closure".

In saying this, though, if you're after a thriller that is in no way typical and well, to be perfectly blunt, weird, then you could worse then spend an hour and a half watching this. Like I said, Turturro was superb - captured the angst of the character perfectly - whereas the rest of the cast, including Deborah Unger and James Remar looked to be just, well, speaking the lines and following the director.

The film also features an atypical score, co-composed by Brian Eno.

Entirely upto you if you want to pop down to your local Blockbuster and rent it out....