guys i saw this movie and felt its awesome.gere at his best. when u have a movie as powerful as this one i fail to understand what the reasons would be for it to gross only $30million in the box office stakes.i mean ive seen movies even worse than this grossin $90-110million.hmmm maybe v fail to recognize a mvie for its true worth and go for only star potential.gere was a big star but when this movie was out he was almost inthe dumps
shareI was about 11 when I saw this film and I remember the s!x scenes in it. When we got home my father (who took me) told my mother it "had a lot of kissing in it." I was surprised it wasn't rated higher than it was here in Australia. Anyway, maybe it was too dark and controversial for its time. Certainly wasn't a "blockbuster."
I wish they did another one, but you can't replace the great character that Gere portrayed.
Mike ure rite.
gere was 2 villanous.and he played a character who was so ruthless.never seen one as heartless in Hollywood
The raw language, strong sexual themes, it's dark subject matter and Dicky Gere's extremely shady and murderous exploits. This is easily Mike Figgis' most accomplished movie and both Andy Garcia and Gere's meatiest performances to date. You really feel the intensity between these two, especially in their verbal sparring scenes....good stuff.
shareduthie i really loved the way u referred 2 Gere-dicky gere.kool.radically kool...
shareYeah, Peck and Raymond's catfights were funny. Raymond really sunk to Dennis' level, esp. when he made that scene in the restaurant with Kathleen. In real life, he would have been arrested for making a scene and assaulting two people. Poor Amy; good thing she wasn't there in the restaurant to see Raymond act so stupid.
Roseanne + Jackie forever
hello guys ur not answering the original question!
the movie did relatively poorly coz it was released in a January (of 1990). It wasnt marketed much by paramount as pretty woman had not been released yet by touchstone and the material is strictly "adult" and not "blockbuster adult" like say fatal attraction.
Im sure internal afffairs did better in Europe(and ROW) though as it was released around the same time as pretty woman in the summer of 90
thanks feargal..
shareMaybe because it has a typical *beep* hollywood ending? Cheesy line, bad guy dies, oh how wonderful.
To hell with that. I always hate when a villian is developed as well as Peck, then just wasted by some lame assed do-gooder.
I cant even finish my thought - im just too upset.
Did you want the bad guy to win? I thought it was a pretty good movie, Gere did a great job as a multi faceted villain and Garcia was pretty good too. As to the original question, I wouldn't know as I just saw this movie for the first time not too long ago.
shareTrue, we don't want to bad guy to win, but it was interesting seeing someone we at first thought was the hero turn out to be an anti-hero and another supporting character (Amy Wallace) unexpectedly turn out to be the real hero. Kind of an interesting ending and I like that it's not so clear cut as to who the hero is throughout most of the film. Then toward the end, if we watch carefully, we see Amy Wallace emerging as the real hero.
shareAt the time this move came out. Gere was box office poison. He did not have a hit in years and Garcia was a rising actor.
The movie did fair business in the box office at the time of release, did good business on VHS and was the beginning of a turnaround for Gere.
Its that man again!!
For the same characteristics that made Cape Fear less successful than it should have been, for instance. Because it oozes evil from all of its pores. It portrays a character so devoid of any possibility of redemption that you actually feel nausea while watching at the movie.
Which is a compliment to the filmmakers' prowess, by the way.
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I remember when this movie opened up, and I was one of the few people that actually saw it in the theaters. I also remember the trailer from the film, and I remember it being sold a little differently than what it actually turned out to be. I was expecting more fireworks, and what I experienced was far more intellegent, and psychologically intense than say Lethal Weapon 2. Now I was not disappointed by this, but I imagine that some people were. I liked the movie a lot. I was always surprised that Andy Garcia didn't get the accolades he deserved for doing it. And as far as Richard Gere is concerned, this was the movie that convinced me that he could act. I had always questioned his abilities because of the roles he took, and the fact that his handsome physique played such a big part in the roles he took. In this film that is what made him so dangerous. This, too, might have hurt the film, because he is truly a complex character with a ruthlessness that can be hard for some to stomach. Nobody wants to think of our Police Officers as being anything like Dennis Peck, and we are disturbed at doing so. Let's not even throw in the handsome, charming part. I find that movies like this don't do well, as they cause people to really think about unpleasant things that society has trouble facing up to, and finding solutions for.
shareI never saw the trailer and the DVD I have doesn't have it, and it's not on YouTube. But I believe this could be very plausable. The studios have got it wrong before with trailers and that sure has a big effect on the success of the film.
The film has a perculiar mix of personal relationship politics, obsession and police corruption with small spurts of action and humour.
Your ideas about society not wanting to think about certain things when they are presented to us is a very good point. Because of this, I think the film could only appeal to a limited audience. Shame, but it keeps it special!
a most excellent post SCY hit the nail on the head there
shareI sure wouldn't like to think that there are police offers like Raymond either.
shareI think another poster really hit the nail on the head when they said (like Cape Fear) the character is so evil and does such unpleasant things you have no affection for the picture.
I saw this movie years ago (not long after it was made) and I found it so unpleasant I have no interest in watching it again. The same applied with Cape Fear - De Niro's character in it did so many vile things (such as attack the young colleague and kill the maid) you ended up hating the entire picture. 'Internal Affairs' causes the same reaction.
Its a micro fine line with movie making, a picture like 'Silence Of The Lambs' can have such terrible content, but due to the way its shot and Hopkins charasmatic performance you can watch it again and again. However, if a movie goes that little bit too near the knuckle it can often scupper its chances. I also found 'Seven' with Brad Pitt to be like this. It's content was so disturbing I was almost angry it had gotten made. That's my own personal view - but ultimately this type of thing will effect box office and video/dvd sales, as the majority of people (either consciously or sub consciously) feel the same wau.
I wondered the same thing...or at least in the similar vein...not so much the box office, but why this movie isn't talked about more. It's intense and the performances are excellent. Gere is every bit as charismatic as some of the more talked about villains in movie history. It's actually a much better film than some of the more talked about cop movies. Cape Fear might not have been a big hit, but ti's still talked about...Internal Affairs is not and it's a marvelous film...other than the awkward ending. Peck/Gere was so charismatic...I just wondered why he suddenly became kind of weak or foolish in the end.
sharethis waste of film is filth.
shareThe situations are tired and trite, the characters are stereotypical, the plot is ludicrous and the acting is par at best.
shareThis film is nothing but filth.No need for the foul language and all that goes with it.
The exceedingly strange,amoral,inbred sub-humans who control the movie and t.v.industry have slowly worked for decades to destroy the morals of Christian,Muslim and
all other normal religious men,women and children.
Richard Gere's precious career was in the proverbial drain...so he took the role.
Movies and television "should" and could be used to educate people who are too lazy to read......but instead look what the medium has done to the corrosive culture of this dreadful country.
I give it a 1 rating.