I LOVE this movie. I LOVE it!
Wow. You actually have to wonder how Jon Voight got the Midnight Cowboy gig after being in this one.
I've seen a lot of bad movies: grindhouse junk, exploitation drek, inept and abortive attempts at comedy or porn or art. But this is one of the worst piles of dung I've ever looked at.
This was an amazing find for me and my girlfriend. We were watching late night television and were enthralled by this comic gem from the great director Philip Kaufman starring the young Jon Voight before he did "Midnight Cowboy", etc.
Knowing that Philip Kaufman directed movies like "The Right Stuff", it blows the mind that he once directed the cornball "Fearless Frank". Jon Voight plays a drifter who gets murdered and then reanimated as a superhero.
Fearless Frank is a genuinely odd early work by Philip Kaufman, featuring an early performance by Jon Voight as a flawed superhero. It attempts to recreate the feel and atmosphere of a comic book, particularly in its first half.
This is a bizarre, uneven film. I watched through it though for the awesome '6os Chicago film locations.
I saw this 30 years ago, and still have never seen anything worse. Junior-high drama club could do better.
I used to review movies years ago and have seen hundreds of films. This movie is full of double, triple and multiple-exposed images of Jon Voight as a Superman clone and was so bad we watched it twice on late night TV because we couldn't believe how bad it was.
