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- 1987
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 1987
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Written By: Howard Franklin, Danilo Bach, David Seltzer
- 1987
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 1987
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Someone to Watch Over Me
55
User Score
Generally Favorable
6.3
Where to Watch
Summary A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Written By: Howard Franklin, Danilo Bach, David Seltzer
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
55
40% Positive
6 Reviews
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60% Mixed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
55
40% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
60% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The situation might have seemed merely a script writer's contrivance except that Howard Franklin ("The Name of the Rose") has fashioned a plot that is both convincing and affecting. Director Ridley Scott happily keeps the human situation in the foreground while exercising his remarkable visual talent. [5 Nov 1987]
This means that Someone to Watch Over Me is a much more interesting movie (than "Fatal Attraction").[9 Oct 1987]
The movie is exciting, richly textured. But, despite its high quality, there’s something unformed about it, like a poem that doesn’t quite sing, a painting with a color missing...Even if Someone to Watch Over Me is flawed, it’s the kind of film that offers you many subsidiary pleasures.
Scott retains his sense of mood and tension. Despite the script's predictable and flawed nature, he elevates Someone To Watch Over Me to the point that it emerges as a surprisingly satisfying piece of filmed entertainment. [9 Oct 1987, p.3D]
[Ridley Scott] draws you into a dull, sensual daydreaminess, but after watching Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers for a while, you look around for the stars. With so much buildup - so much terror-tinged atmosphere - you expect actors with some verve, and you wonder why the script doesn't sneak in a few jokes. (Has a good thriller ever been this solemn? Or this simple?)
While the actors show some sensitivity and Scott works up a modicum of suspense and involvement, the real interest of this picture is the radiance of the images—a mastery of lighting and decor second only to Scott's Blade Runner, with atmospheric textures so dense you can almost taste them. Unfortunately, this mastery bears only the most glancing relationship to the story at hand, and Scott becomes guilty of the sort of formalism that used to be charged (less justly) against Josef von Sternberg. But even though the movie doesn't leave much of a residue, it looks terrific while you're watching it: Manhattan has seldom appeared as glitzy or as glamorous.
Howard Franklin's screenplay plays less like a feature film than like the pilot for a failed television series about New York policemen.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
25% Positive
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Production Company
Columbia Pictures
Release Date Oct 9, 1987
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating R
Tagline He's a streetwise cop who just made detective. She's a stunning sophisticate who just saw a murder. A killer is the only thing they had in common. Until tonight.
Awards
American Society of Cinematographers, USA
• 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
