Review of Cape Fear

In general I avoid seeing remakes of classics, but when the name "Martin Scorsese" is plastered all over the poster even I cannot resist the urge to check it out. I'm glad I did, because Scorsese's version of Cape Fear is extremely well-done. The direction is simply flawless and elevates the outstanding performances by Nolte, De Niro and Lewis.
It does however become glaringly obvious that it is solely based around De Niro's menacing performance and the parts where he is not on-screen are vastly inferior to the rest of the movie and hurt it in the end.