Maybe the most common critique I see made about Nicolas Winding-Refn is that he prioritizes style over substance. While it's easy to see how someone could form that impression, almost every NWR film I've watched had enough impactful moments to make the languidly-paced dialogue and overreliance on saturated colour palettes feel worthwhile.
Fear-X, alternatively, doesn't really have any payoff that elevates it above it's own stylistic ambitions, and what we're left with are a bunch of long, drawn-out scenes of…
