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HIT AND RUN = HIT AND MISS
While starting out with an interesting premise and maintaining its ominous, what is he going to do mood, SHADOW OF FEAR loses this edge when it brings out an ambiguous ending that leaves the viewer wondering where the movie has taken you. Matt Davis (Below) plays an up and coming real estate fellow who loses a big account. On the way home from a meeting with a group of high powered men, he hits a pedestrian and panicking, he hides the body. Davis does a good job in his role, lending his innocent physical appearance and his overwhelming sense of helplessness to the film's foundation. Robin Tunney as his wife also does well. Davis does find himself in deep doodoo though when James Spader's malevolent William Ashbury offers to help him "cover up" his deed. Seems like Ashbury has done this before for the other gentlemen in their Tuesdy night club. Spader underplays his character nicely, but never lets up on his simmering evil. Aidan Quinn plays a detective with his own checkered past, and the gentlemen in the club include notable character actors Peter Coyote and David Selby. I wanted to like this movie a lot more, but its ambiguity in the finale left me unsatisfied.

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Saved by Matt Davis
Sounded like a good story - i suppose it could have been if the characters had acted like most normal people and discussed what was happening to them to their friends and loved ones - but once again the hero of the piece , in this case Harrison French (Matt Davis) decides to do what nobody in real life woud do - go it alone against the odds . Interesting how a corpse laying in the woods for at least 3 days looks so good - just one of my gripes i suppose . The only endearing feature of this movie was the fact the a very good actors like Matt Davis & Jmes Spader were in the movie - take away the eye candy and you don't have much left - rent it - don't buy it ! <
>Oh - yeah - what a small town they must have lived in - so many coincidences and chance meetings - maybe that was to make the story more believable - who knows !

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Enjoyable!
At the beginning of this movie we meet Harrison and his wife Wynn. A young couple who seem to be very much in love and are going through the normal growing pains of life. Harrison has been dependent upon his father-in-law to help pay for their home until he becomes stronger in the business. Losing an account one evening he is driving home, quite upset and hits and kills a man. This happening sets into action the entire premise of the movie. <
> We find out that all the men are involved in a secret organigation, however not by choice. It seems each has done a deed they had to cover up and a very evil man named William found the solutions, however now they would forever be in his debt. Harrison is now in the web, having run from the scene of the accident.However he decides to fight back and get his life and those of the men free from this demonic controlling man. <
> There are many twists and turns to this movie but I think it really showed that owning up to what we have done is the best route to take. Deception in any form only leads to more heartache and control by forces we do not want to take over. This movie had a good ending, but you wonder how many times in life that people have put themselves in these situations that it did not. I believe you would enjoy viewing this movie, it has some good moments and is quite thought provoking.