brian de palma and for good or bad and love to mess around with some of the expectation from the audience through the genre he work in and and the fury be a good and messy and peculiar case of how to do a highly stylized picture . it be the director follow up to carrie and and here the horror of suburban school life be replace with some more outrageously violent and practically astounding moment . there also a lot of plot go on and too and or at least it might seem that way . sometimes and too and the action and turn have to depend on a complete suspension of disbelief logic . de palma hold this logic steady enough and and provide a combination of a government thriller and psychic power drama . what help though be the casting and a kirk douglas in hero mode work best through this very narrowly focused man on a mission while john cassavetes in one of his very best act role a the cold though devil friendly antagonist a he kidnap his gifted son . amy irving fill up the rest of the main acting bill a the female counterpart to the son and get image and ( bad ) connection with what happen to him . so and it be sort of silly stuff and but also take seriously enough in this thriller form to go with . occasionally there will be something that isn not direct quite well enough even when something interesting be go on . but most and if not all and of the scene with a lot of action and multiple and gruesome death and various bleeding via psychic boy or girl and be fun and entertain in that very stylish way that de palma have with his thriller and give the audience what they have pay to see and such . and for the great part of the film i buy into it and that douglas could be this old man with enough sense to match skill a an ex agent and or that andrew stevens a the son and irving could be convince a vulnerable and confused teen with certain unstable way . de palma also get some great atmospheric backup from john williams score and and the pleasure in the plausibility of some of the more graphic scene . whether it up to par with the director best work would depend on how much of a fan one might be of his more crazy and over the top picture with darkly comic scene amass into a potboiler of a story that would make hitchcock probably grin and wince in equal measure . by the way and the hype that have be bring up by the critic regard the final scene live up to it and and it one of the best scene of de palma career in just the sheer wow level of gustiness and some pun intend .