Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 76% based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Primal Fear is a straightforward, yet entertaining thriller elevated by a crackerjack performance from Edward Norton." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave it a weighted average score of 46 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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Primal Fear
(1996)4
" There was never an Aaron"
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Runtime | 2 hr 10 min |
Budget | $30 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $102 616 183 April 26, 1996 |
USA | $56 116 183 |
Other countries | $46 500 000 |
Box Office – Budget | $72 616 183 |
Premiere: USA | $56 116 183 April 1, 1996 |
theaters | 1983 |
rollout | 271 days |
Digital: World | March 29, 2021 |
Parental Advisory | Profanity, Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, ... |
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