What did you rate ''The Fury'' (1978)?

10/10 awesome film underrated classic

8/10 for me. I think this is the last good movie that Palma did.

7 out of 10. Though I enjoyed it and felt it was a good film, it was not at the top of my list of DePalma films that I adore. For me this falls below Phantom of the Paradise, Dressed To Kill, Body Double, Carrie, Hi Mom, and Greetings. But it is above Blow Out, Femme Fatale, and Casualties Of War. It would be on par with Obsession. The rest of his I either haven't seen or don't remember how much I liked them.

3/10. This was one of the last de Palma movies I had yet to see.

And I thought it was straight-up slow, boring, overly long, poorly constructed and anticlimactic. It takes forever to get from dull scene to dull scene. We are supposed to feel suspense and sympathy for the Robin character from the opening sequence and through his father's plight to find him. But fifty million days later when they finally do track him down, he is an uppity evil pole-vaulting prick?! Yeah I get that they corrupted him. Must have been in all that time he was off-screen.

The interminable Chicago beach scene shot mostly from the rear. Not even Jim Belushi staggering around in cut-off jean shirts made that less insufferable. How could de Palma have wasted William Finley. That scene could have been much tighter.

I am glad five minutes was spent on an super special ice cream sundae party just so we could find out Hester is dating Peter through so very hokey dialog.

These psychics are supposed to be extremely powerful telekinectically but Robin can't break his own fall from a three-story window? When we just saw him ragdoll what's-her-name around the room. We are even told he is atomically powerful. Yeah, somehow I really doubt that.

And for a movie called The Fury, the only fury I encountered was my own at watching such tripe. The inclusion of an actual rage-filled showdown would have help my enjoyment of the movie. It's hinted at. But two guys falling from a roof while Amy Irving stares at a window all doe-eyed and mouth agape. And then a silly shock killing after an inappropriate kiss. Naw.

Oh, and the stupid glowing eyes. I guess they were aliens, or pod people, or children from the Village of the Damned or a Bonnie Tyler video. But whatever, at that point, I was corned out by this dumb movie.

And what was the purpose of the opening being in Israel? It starts off like a Bond movie. Then goes all North by Northwest and never quite achieves Carrie status before ending like a bad Omen sequel. It was just all over the place - with snail-pacing at that.

The only redeemable part of this movie that didn't make me wretch was the Mother Nuckells scene. And possibly the two cops in the car. But that dragged out. I guess for a low budget Hitchcock-style car "chase" in the fog that was okay. Otherwise, this movie could have been 30 minutes shorter and definitely punchier with its promise of some damn fury.

10/10 . This is the ancestor of Xmen movie with protagonists like Phoenix but with a higher risk of failure.
While superhero or mutant always win, the viewer can worry about more fragile characters , more human in this movie .

4/10. It's a yawner to me, and is in need of some serious editing.

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I'm a huge De Palma fan and also a big fan of both Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes so this should be right up my alley, but I've never enjoyed it as much as I feel like I should, given those facts. I'd rate it about a 6 out of 10, which on my "scale" is an enjoyable enough movie but by no means a classic or anything like that. I'd put it in the bottom third or so of De Palma's ouevre.