Greetings
valued Dan's Movie Readers, across my desk today comes a new film
starring John Travolta called 'The Fanatic'. Hard to put a finger to
be honest what this film is trying to accomplish, the promotional
materials make it seem like it is a mixture of 'Rain Man' and 'Taxi
Driver'. Sadly it is no where near either of those films. Travolta
plays Moose, an autograph seeking man who is on the spectrum, meaning
he is autistic, but has some cognoscenti reality of being.
Making
a film where the centralized character is flawed is a difficult task,
director Fred Durst from Limp Biskit misses the mark do to the fact
of his stark portrayal of Moose and his interactions. John Travolta
does an amazing job channeling the character, yet his surroundings
and people that he meets are just not dynamic enough, and when there
is emotion, it is almost always negative. The 'oh whoa is me' character gets
rather stale after 30 minutes into the film.
To be
quite honest, I really like Travolta as an actor, and this film shows
his range, but the audience just does not get the full character, and
the self deprecating, down trodden look is fine if you are looking
for sympathy, but in 'The Fanatic' is rarely comes. A particular
bright spot is the interaction in the beginning when a shop owner is
being nice to him and offering to sell him a rare jacket at a
discount. That aside, the look and feel of the film is dreary, and
rather depressing, yes Rain Main was sad, but sad because of his
circumstances, not the people around him. 'The Fanatic' tackles a
very difficult subject matter, yet sadly is barely worthy of a watch
for Travolta fans, his acting is great, the movie is very
lackluster, and rates a very bland 4 out of 10.
If you
live in the USA and have Amazon Prime, the film can be watched for
free: https://www.amazon.com/Fanatic-John-Travolta/dp/B07XHTY5VN
U.K.
Fans the film is available on Dazzler Media for pre order ships July 20th:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fanatic-DVD-John-Travolta/dp/B089CLZNZ8/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1591800229&sr=8-1
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