SummaryWhen the San Francisco Giants pay centerfielder Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan Gil Renard. So when Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard stops at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory... not even murder. (Sony Pictu... Read More
Directed By:Tony Scott
Written By:Peter Abrahams, Phoef Sutton
The Fan
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Generally Unfavorable
32
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6.2
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Generally Unfavorable
32
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88
Director Tony Scott's stylistic flourishes haven't been put to such creepily seductive use since The Hunger.
50
Something about baseball seems to bring out the silly side in moviemakers -- even in a movie like The Fan, which starts out well-crafted and deadly serious and seems to have good enough actors and a savvy enough director to stay that way. But halfway through this thriller things go haywire. [16 Aug 1996, p.D]
User score
Generally Favorable
6.2
41% Positive
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May 5, 2023
6
D’abord, un grand De Niro ici ! le sacré Bob est au sommet dans un numéro dont il a le secret : le rôle de l’enfoirenaze taré, inquiétant et dérangé ; ensuite, Wesley Snipes dans un effort surhumain est presque à son niveau pour lui donner la réplique, ce qui n’est pas rien. Le scénario tient à peu près la route mais se désunit au fur et à mesure cependant, trop de raccourcis et d’incohérences pour faire monter la tension qui devient alors artificielle. S’il fait penser à ‘Chute Libre’ par certains aspects, Le Fan doit malheureusement composer avec ses (presque) deux heures et la mollesse qui en découle… Cela étant, pour du « Tony Scott' » la mise en scène reste assez sobre et la performance de Bob sauve (presque) le film malgré ses 20 mn de trop au bas mot.
Jul 8, 2011
6
This isn't a great movie by any stretch but it kept me interested and the story was well paced. Also you get another very solid performance from Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes does a solid job. The movie also gives a cool perspective on how some fans take things far to serious and the stress players feel under the bright spotlight of professional sports. Overall not a must see but not a bad watch if you catch it on TV.
42
Good performances are mostly wasted. Phoef Sutton's adaptation of the Abrahams' novel is poor, it works to an absurdly unlikely and dramatically dishonest must-hit-a-home-run conclusion, and - though it tries here and there - it has absolutely nothing new to say on the subject of fan obsession. [16 Aug 1996. p.30]
30
This preposterous stalker flick, in fact, has less to do with America's favorite pastime or Gil's psychosis than with Hollywood's own obsession with blood sport. And for all British director Tony Scott knows about baseball, the thing might as well have been set in a cabbage patch.
25
The Fan would have worked better had it dissected the mechanics that shape celebrity adulation. Instead, The Fan takes a knife-wielding action route that leaves film fans feeling - dare I suggest it - cheated? [16 Aug 1996, p.35]
20
De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well-practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about. [26 August 1996, p.61]
10
Even in thriller terms, nothing rings remotely true here, with even the baseball action--including a game that is not called despite enough rain to unnerve Noah--laced with a heavy dose of preposterousness.
Jan 30, 2011
5
Simply put this film is over dramatised and lacking any effective voice. Its violence is weak and chereographed and there is nothing but a slight glow of the city to warm to. In a way you shouldn't expect much from Hollywood productions but this film is lost in its own mise-en-scene and there is no one better at exposing this than Robert De Niro. 45/100
Feb 16, 2024
1
Boring and derivative with a highly implausible finale, this film wastes a stellar cast
Production Company:
- TriStar Pictures
- Mandalay Entertainment
- Scott Free Productions
Release Date:Aug 16, 1996
Duration:1 h 56 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Fear strikes soon
Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
