FeardotCom
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 30, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
16
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
16
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Strange, how good feardotcom is, and how bad. The screenplay is a mess, and yet the visuals are so creative this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
There's potential here for a macabre cult favourite touching on themes of technology and the body-mind split, but the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase "fatal script error." Read full review
40
VarietyScott Foundas
Never quite realizes its potential to evoke the real horror of the Internet -- Yet, Malone has given the film a distinctive atmosphere and occasional flashes of his perverse sense of humor. Read full review
40
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
If sudden loud noises, relentless strobe lights, digital hallucinations and mutilated corpses make you jump, and you feel that nothing more is required for a good time at the movies, welcome to Feardotcom.
38
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
As scary and minor-chord heavy as FearDotCom can be, there's no big payoff, no logical resolution. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
There's a germ of an interesting idea here, but it's smothered by gloomy cinematography a la "Seven" (1995) and grating implausibilities, like the fact that everyone lives in the kind of cavernous, dankly art-directed dumps that only internet millionaires and trust fund twinkies can afford in the real New York. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The film squanders every opportunity (and international-coproduction cent) on by now imitative Nine Inch Nails-video-style visual Goth-goo, and, scarily, forgets to input a plot or script that makes any sense. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
A low-rent, slow-witted horror flick notable chiefly for its hilariously unsuccessful attempt to pass off Luxembourg City as New York City. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Made with just enough craft to keep it from being the instantly dated camp howler its title promises, but it's quickly apparent that there's no thought or originality under its grim, familiar surface. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Would have made a hell of a short -- but falls flat on its hyperstylized face as a feature. Read full review
20
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
I feel guilty and somehow unclean. And all I did was watch it. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Shameless exercise in high-tech sadism. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
The film, whose clumsy editing and dearth of establishing shots keep the viewer in an unintended state of confusion, is a corpse in its own right: It’s filled with the rotting ideas of far better movies. Read full review
10
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen Holden
It is painful to watch an actor as skillful as Mr. Dorff reduced to delivering flat repetitive dialogue that would make any actor look foolish. Read full review
10
Film ThreatEric Campos
This movie is plain stupid from the get go, but at least it looks good. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
The story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalCollin Levey
For the most part, the movie serves up an incomprehensible collage of high-tech voyeurism sprinkled with every hackneyed creep-out trick in the book -- from eerie little ghost girls to melting walls and scurrying cockroaches.
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The film is a failure in just about every way, save for its acting, which is adequate. Read full review
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