AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Maddyclassicfilms Fearless is directed by Peter Weir, has a screenplay by Rafael Yglesias based on his novel and has music by Maurice Jarre. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Benicio Del Toro and John De Lancie.This is a film that lingers in your memory, long after you've finished watching it. The film does a brilliant job of showing how difficult it is for survivors to carry on living their lives the same as they once did. This is a moving and powerful tale of grief, guilt and love.A passenger plane crashes in a field, many people are killed but there are a few survivors. Max Klein(Jeff Bridges)is one survivor. Max undergoes a drastic personality change, he begins to feel invulnerable because he survived the crash. Max cannot reconnect with his wife Laura(Isabella Rossellini), he spends time with a fellow survivor called Carla(Rosie Perez), she is inconsolable after her baby was killed in the crash. Carla was holding him and she tried to strap him in the seat but couldn't, she feels she should have held him tighter and his death is her fault even though it's not. Max's family try and help him but can't. It is up to Max whether or not he rejoins life again.The film features some superb performances. Bridges perfectly conveys the numbness his character feels, and the way that he can't understand how he is still living.I've never been a fan of Rosie Perez, but she is impressive here, she makes your heart break for her character.Isabella Rossellini is strong as Max's loving wife, not fully comprehending what he is going through, but trying really hard to understand.John De Lancie has a small role as Max's friend, who was travelling with him and was killed in the crash.The plane crash is one of the most convincing ever shown in a film, the crash sequence conveys the confusion and the horror experienced in such a moment. It's a shame this film is not better known. I think it's one of Weir's best, it's deeply moving and is a film you don't forget easily. It gives you a sense of how survivors of such things must feel and helps you understand their pain somewhat.Maurice Jarre's score fits perfectly with the film.

Brian Berta This is a fantastic character study which expertly details someone's transformation after they survive a horrific plane crash.After a man survives a plane crash, he is hailed as a hero because he lead several other survivors to safety. This has a negative effect on his personality though and he then meets another survivor who lost her baby in the disaster.The movie has great character development as we get to know more about Max and Carla. The movie makes us care for them and we get to experience their change throughout the film. This movie has the tendency to catch you off guard and it can surprise you're least expecting it.Probably the most memorable scene is the plane crash scene. It is frighteningly realistic. It shows the force of the wind and Earth ripping apart the aircraft. It is a horrifying scene and a horrifying memory which changed the characters life forever. It is a scene that will stick with you long after viewing it.This movie isn't perfect though. There are a few moments where the movie can be slow and a bit too long but other that, it's an underrated gem which will stick with you for a long time.

jaywensley2004 "Fearless" is a powerful movie. From the terrifying crash sequence to Jeff Bridges walk on a roof top and his physics lesson for the benefit of Rosie Perez, "Fearless" owes its considerable emotional impact to the Rafael Yglesias novel of the same name. No surprise since Yglesias wrote the screenplay.What I found surprising is that Yglesias did not receive even a nomination for the screenplay. "Schindler's List" won, but I still ask, how did "Fearless" not receive a nomination? Bridges, Isabella Rossellini and Perez brought the script to life with brilliant performances, but the story of "Fearless" is in the story. It is a rare examination of the effect of experience on human behavior and personality, and the courage that a few find in those experiences. Insanity never was so valuable as it is in "Fearless."

secondtake Fearless (1993)Peter Weir has directed some great, unique movies--Galipoli and Picnic at Hanging Rock are two of my favorites. So I watched this with curiosity at first. And then boredom. And then a kind of draining disappointment. I can see how the drama, and the various characters involved in it, might really draw someone in and move them. So this is just my own take on it, a fair balance to the others, I hope.The shock of being in a plane crash is played out by Jeff Bridges as a young professional who survives. This is gripping enough in the first scenes. This survival is played out through Bridges over the next fews days as he visits other survivors and sees the range of their inabilities to cope. Throughout, Bridges is asked to play with a calm that at first seems to be a blank slate for our growing into his complexity. His own complete acceptance and almost joy at having survived seems to have no down side, except having to run from television cameras or stand on rooftops screaming. Normal things, I suppose. This is how we are made to see his mind working through the horror he has repressed. But the blankness is a cover for an unresolved shock, and this doesn't unfold easily. Von Trier or Bergman or even Hitchcock might have made art out of this, but Weir can't pull it off. His earlier movies are gems of situation, of how groups of people behave within circumstances. Fearless is different in that it goes inward, trying to be about a person's mind. And yet, Weir still plays Bridges as if he were foremost a character among other characters. When we do go inward, it is mostly through his memories of the event, which are given predictable elements of fear and horror. (It's a plane crash, after all.) As for how Bridges copes, you will see either beatific gazes or screaming to himself.The basic idea is great movie material, but I didn't find the psychology convincing. The writing is stilted and worn out before it starts. The narrative is broken up with cheap flashbacks and with irrelevant and unconvincing scenes of tacky lawyers looking for money. Clichés. Even the extended and manipulative ending, which by that point is so unnecessary and indulgent for all its fire and visions of heaven, just leaves you feeling battered.