Fear X (2003) review

Harry Caine (John Turturro) works as a guard in a mall in Wisconsin but spends his "free time" scanning through security footage to figure out who killed his wife Claire (Jacqueline Ramel) - eventually, he gets a "lead" that sends him to Montana where he goes searching for Kate (Deborah Kara Unger) and meets her husband Peter (James Remar), who's a police officer.  This was poorly received upon release (Leonard Maltin and his team gave it a rare "Bomb" rating) and it's easy to see why: it's stuck in this precocious "middle ground" between being an experimental film and a thriller, but Refn can't commit to one side or the other, so he's left with a movie that doesn't make sense and has no actual ending.  But Turturro's performance, as a man who's so traumatized he's basically in a trance, helps keeps it watchable, and the sound design is interesting and makes me wish I was wearing headphones.  Should you feel the need to watch this, be sure you're only partially conscious.