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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 15, 1989 |
Starring:
Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, Gene Canfield, John Goodman, John Spencer, Larry Joshua, Michael Rooker, Paul Calderon, Richard Jenkins, William Hickey
Summary:
A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.
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Sea of Love is a suspenseful film noir boasting a superlative performance by Al Pacino as a burned-out Gotham cop. Handsome production benefits from a witty screenplay limning the bittersweet tale of a 20-year veteran NYC cop assigned to a case tracking down the serial killer of men who've made dates through the personal columns.
Efficient enough as a thriller, but what makes this mandatory viewing is the return of Pacino. There are isolated scenes as good as anything he's done, and if the role is less demanding than Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon or Michael in The Godfather, his presence lifts the production in the way De Niro lifted Midnight Run.
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Moment by moment, Sea of Love holds you in a tight grip. It's a stylish diversion, though it never gets much below its self-consciously "hot" surface. [18 Sep 1989, p.81]
Neither Price nor director Harold Becker can decide whether they're after a conventional mystery or a trenchant sexual-psychological study a la Last Tango in Paris. Like so many current movies, Love falters in the pay-off; despite lots of bull's-eye moments in the early going, it seems vaguely silly. [15 Sep 1989, p.4D]
Sea of Love is a lugubrious imitation of a second-rate television movie, over-produced and over-cast. Mr. Pacino tears into a role made out of rice paper, for messy results, while Miss Barkin does her level best to seem simultaneously sexy, homicidal and innocent, which is not easy.
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Nov 9, 2018
Sea of love is one of the best thrillers of my pick. I could watch this movie a million time and never get tired of it.
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Apr 29, 2022
6.5/10
Sea Of Love is a movie with the type of story that can be ended up so wrong or so right, after watching the film i feel like the movie ended not so wrong but still not quite right too.
Sea Of Love is a movie with the type of story that can be ended up so wrong or so right, after watching the film i feel like the movie ended not so wrong but still not quite right too.
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