Starring: Jeff Bridges, Benicio Del Toro, Debra Monk, Eric Menyuk, John De Lancie, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro
Director: Peter Weir
Distributed by: Warner Archive
Release Date: October 29, 2013
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 122 minutes
Our Score: 3.5 out of 5 stars
To celebrate its 20th anniversary almost to the day, “Fearless” makes its Blu-ray debut, thanks to Warner Archiv. The film starred Jeff Bridges with his given such an amazing performance along with amazing co-stars Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio Del Toro, and John De Lancie. It was adapted for the screen by Rafael Yglesias from his own novel and beautifully directed by Peter Weir. Despite being 20 years old, it still holds up so well and even having seen it so many times it still is just as powerful.
Official Premise: San Francisco architect Max Klein can see clearly now. He’s been transformed ever since he stared death in the face – and discovered he was unafraid. Peter Weir (“Witness”) directs Fearless, the vivid story of how a near-death experience impacts the lives of three people. Jeff Bridges plays Max, more wildly alive and taking more risks than ever since surviving a plane crash. Isabella Rossellini is Laura, struggling to find in Max the man she married. And Rosie Perez is fellow crash survivor Carla: alive, yet devastated by a grievous loss. It seems that no one can heal her pain. But then she meets the one person who fearlessly knows how.
This Blu-ray unfortunately does not come with any special features but it does come with a killer presentation. “Fearless” has finally been presented in it’s correct wide screen aspect ratio according to Weir and cinematographer Allen Daviau’s vision. The new 1080p master looks stunning and definitely doesn’t look like its age. The audio track included is a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 track, which is typical for WB Archive, but it still works very well with the film. I have always been a huge fan of this film, so I was excited just to get it on Blu-ray finally. I wasn’t looking for such an amazing technical release, so that was a nice surprise for me and I think fans of this film are going to dig it also.