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directed by Peter Weir...
There's no God but there's you," gasps a bleary-eyed plane crash survivor to Max (Jeff Bridges), and sums up the dominant theme of Peter Weir's latest all-star release. Full of glitz, melodrama and unadulterated emotional manipulation, "Fearless" chronicles the psychological aftermath of a plane crash in the life of Max, a good-looking, successful and secretly tortured architect, and how the rest of the world hinges upon his mental wellbeing...
...Weir's earlier change-your-life movies includethe more successful "Green Card" and "Dead PoetsSociety." In "Fearless," though, the barage ofcinematic gimickry and Hollywood manufacturedemotion can't quite hide an insubstantial plot."Fearless" manages to tug at the heartstrings--for a while
DIRECTOR: PETER WEIR...
...might expect these days in a movie about a plane crash is Airport '93. The ; best we might hope for in a study of survivors is psychological faith healing. But Rafael Yglesias has written what amounts to a meditation on mortality. In the process, he has provided director Peter Weir with a route back to his best vein, that of Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, those curiously creepy movies in which ineffable, quite insoluble mysteries slowly insinuate themselves into ordinary life. Together, the filmmakers have given Bridges a singular figure -- beamy, spooky, secretive -- to play and provided...