Product Details

• Actors: David Blaine
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• DVD Release Date: May 14, 2002
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000640VL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,295 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "David Blaine - Fearless" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 04/05/2005 Run time: 113 minutes

Customer Reviews

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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Magic At A Bargain, May 29, 2003

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Chon-ny "Your Sensei's Sensei" - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Blaine - Fearless (DVD)

You may have caught some of "street magician" David Blaine's act on his TV specials that had limited runs. Not too worry; "David Blaine: Fearless" gathers them all up, and throws them all onto one DVD, and then some. You can generally find this DVD priced the same as "discount" DVDs, so you won't be paying the normal $20 plus that DVDs command.

Blaine's amazing tricks are super-cool but wouldn't have held their own displayed merely in a Vegas showroom; it's the who and where that makes this DVD special. Blaine often performs his tricks up close and with plenty of audience participation, to an extremely diverse set of people. He bites a quarter in half and spits it back to make it whole in front of some LA street thugs. He performs his famous levitation at the Dallas Cowboys training camp, sending Deion Sanders running, his wits barely intact. He pulls various "pick a card" tricks on a pair of grandmothers sitting on a bench, despite their initial declaration that they're not into magic tricks. A bunch of soccer girls at a rest stop scream with glee when makes a name appear out of ash.

Blaine even ventures into a remote South American jungle, where an tribe that has been mostly isolated from civilization serves as the challenge; the only way he can communicate with them is magic, but will "pick a card" mean anything to them or impress a culture with no concept of quarters, Aces or Spades? Blaine adapts and amazes them by squeezing drinkable amounts of water from random places or making a ball multiply within a closed fist. He does this again with other journeys to foreign areas.

Many of Blaine's tricks are true head-scratchers that will leave even the most cynical viewer amused. I've already described a significant amount of his simpler tricks, so I'll leave the rest for the DVD to show, including an act that is more endurance than magic: fighting hypothermia and mental breakdowns as he remains encased in an ice prison on a busy sidewalk for a couple of days.

He has a different sort of charisma; he's so laid back but you still get the sense that he truly treats magic as an art, not as an attempt to hoodwink you; but at the same time he isn't so overly serious that you can associate with him.

This is a great DVD to have; magic is an all-genre, all-gender thing. You can pop "Fearless" in anytime at any setting, be it a small gathering, a big party, or in your portable DVD player while waiting for your flight at the airport. There's very little filler material, which is a good thing; they've packed in as much material as they can.

A must-buy for anyone.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This guy is supernatural, June 4, 2002

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Christopher G. Lewis "shaman_rikki" (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: David Blaine - Fearless (DVD)

It seems like David Blaine does standard old-school tricks like biting the quarter in half or sleight-of-hand card switches in order to make his more mind-blowing illusions seem a little less spooky. I have read the editorials by magicians debunking some of his more pedestrian tricks but I haven't read any plausible explanations on how he managed to aid the guy in buying the winning $1600 lottery ticket (don't tell me they cut out the footage of hundreds of losing tickets) or managed to drop a woman's ring into a sewer grate and then find it minutes later inside a tiny liquor bottle on the ground behind the crowd of onlookers. There are at least a dozen of these "tricks" on the DVD that are absolutely astonishing. He is an unworldly character and the video is an outstanding document of his abilities.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Close-Up Magic, December 4, 2004

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Laura De Giorgio "hypnotherapist" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: David Blaine - Fearless (DVD)

Most of David Blaine's magic is a close-up magic and as a previous reviewer said - yes, practicing magicians are familiar and can do most of the magic presented on this video. Nevertheless, most people are not practicing magicians, and even those who are, will appreciate the presentation. DVD is wonderful to watch and non-magicians in particular will be astonished and delighted. Most of the magic revolves around sleight-of-hand - with cards, coins, rings, and bills, then you'll see levitation, which involves - hmm, mainly distraction (I guess it wouldn't be exactly sleight-of-feet), and then you'll watch David encased in a block of ice for three days and more fun stuff. And you'll hear lots of screams from astonished participants.