slick but could have been better
Ridley Scott rocks, but even he couldn't breathe enough life into this to make it a solid hit. Needed a better writer.
shareIt's at 6.1 at the moment.
That's not very high for imdb. People are either generous or more likely to vote on movies that they like than movies that they don't. Or maybe it's something else...
This was fairly dull and predictable for me.
Marianne
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Uhhh, OK, did I do something wrong?
Marianne
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It wasn't my post that had been deleted. If I remember correctly the post was an insult and I wasn't sure how I had offended the poster. Anyway that's prolly why it got deleted.
Marianne
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This must be a pretty forgettable movie. I don't remember anything about it! Sorry, you're going to have to start another thread with your questions.
Marianne
This movie was decent. not the gre3atest, but better than average.
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Too bad, puzzle queen - you shoulda paid more attention! I have seen this movie many, many times. In fact, just got through watching it again on my big-screen TV on TMC. Ridley Scott is in my personal top 5 favorite directors. I think this is one of his very best. I have seen the comments about "hackneyed plot", but I personally cannot recall another movie with this plot: cop assigned to guard socialite and they fall in love.
I thought the casting and acting were great (God, Mimi Rogers and Lorraine Bracco were - and are - a couple of gorgeous broads!), the pacing was very suspenseful, the villain was TERRIFYING, the soundtrack was wonderful, the sets and cinematography were first-rate - altogether entertaining, frightening, and totally memorable. It isn't Ibsen, but then it's not supposed to be. It is supposed to be an intelligent, polished, well-made slice of escapist entertainment, and that's exactly what it is. I am sure I am not the only one who found the world of the NYC glitterati (of 20 years ago, now) fascinating, as did Tom Berenger's character. It totally sucked him in......He is lucky he escaped with his sanity and marriage; not all of Scott's films end on such a positive note.
Were I voting today, I would still give it a solid 8.0. Now, Blade Runner I would rate 10.0, being my favorite movie of all time (probably; hard to choose just one, from one genre), but this is a respectable effort on Ridley Scott's part.
I know they are a bit too 'movie-ish', but this movie needed a car chase and maybe an actual sex scene. It wasn't a bad film but just needed a little more. Plus, the music was STRANGE AS HELL. Again, not bad. But STRAAAAAANGE.
sharehawk-58
I agree. Love the moody lighting, the casting, and the quandary the detective found himself in was totally believable. Also, the wonderful Katsulas was really terrifying. The murder scene was so shocking and sudden...caught me totally off guard. I don't understand the negative comments here.
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hawk-58,
I agree with everything you said, and you said it well. I don't know how the movie could have been more suspenseful or believable. I have only two minor complaints: 1) The volume of the music was too high in a few of the scenes and overwhelmed the action or dialogue; and 2) The shootout at the end could have shown more clearly what was happening.
Its a solid thriller. people expected more from a Ridley Scott film but rather failed at the box office.
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they lost me in the beginning when he was chasing her and she ran into the elevator... all he had to do was stick his arm in the door and it would have opened... that's what the black protrusions inside the door are for... and the movie would have been over... i find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't know that sticking your arm in an elevator door opens the door....
shareYes the elevator wasn't believable and how about Tom's accent being from Queens? When he got into it, the accent was so clearly Brooklyn, Bensonhurst Italian especially. Any New Yorker would have gotten annoyed by a cop from Queens who so clearly was NOT from Queens! And the look was a very stylized New York for the time, it didn't ring true. She was supposed to live in the UES but the interior of her home was very UWS or Flatiron or further south. And even the doorknob of the washroom at the Guggenheim was wrong. The movie just looked wrong, to anyone who lived in NYC. Berenger and Bracco made the movie touching but so much about it just felt wrong.
"I was made to understand there were grilled cheese sandwiches here"
Maybe he was from the from the extreme south west of Queens. You know, one block from Brooklyn.
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