“A Fantastic Fear of Everything” is an acquired taste, submitting such
an itchy, darkly comic atmosphere that’s utterly guaranteed to energize
those in step with its madness, while others will find the enterprise an
overly mannered grind to get through. It’s polarizing work that carries
immense creativity and sharp sense of humor, burrowing into the
spinning mind of a destructively phobic man during an intense period of
suspicion. Thankfully, star Simon Pegg is up for the challenge, bringing
to the screen a truly scattered character who’s hilariously bound by
his fears, articulated with all the spasms and pauses the actor is
particularly skilled at delivering. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
Leave a comment