This is How Movies Should Be Made

Purely Joyful Movie!

Perfectly adorable

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The story for this movie probably was written in 5 minutes – it's that thin. "Someone to watch over me" still manages to be a entertaining small movie. Mainly thanks to the director and actors.Ridley Scott directs it with passion , so the simple story is never boring and actually intriguing. It's also interesting how Scott can make a simple thriller visually attractive. Claire's house and the club are great eye candies . The art direction certainly deserves praise.This straightforward story actually has a heart and the writer Howard Franklin wrote the relationships here really well. Everything feels natural and real.Tom Berenger (mostly known for his performance in "Platoon" as the psycho soldier) gives a great performance as shy , down to Earth cop. He loves his wife and son , yet he gets tangled in a unwanted romance. Mimi Rogers is also great as the independent and feisty wife of Berenger. Lorraine Bracco makes her character really delicate and likable. The whole trio has a great chemistry together and they are the heart of the movie. Without their great performances the whole movie would fell apart.It's one of those small movies that isn't really amazing or great , but you might like it for what it is. Not the best movie in Ridley's Scott career , but certainly not the worst. I give it 4/10.

Tom Berenger plays police officer and family man Mike Keegen, who is assigned to protect socialite Claire Gregory, played by Mimi Rogers, who has witnessed a murder related to the organized crime, which of course puts her life in danger. Despite their class differences, they grow to like each other, much to the resentment of his wife Ellie(played by Lorraine Bracco) Will Tom fall in love with Claire, and can he stop the assassins out to kill her? Directed by Ridley Scott("Alien") this routine film seems like a waste of his talents, though he does imbue it with a glossy style, the story doesn't deserve such special treatment, being fairly obvious and predictable, despite a good cast. Not a bad film by any means, just a thoroughly mediocre one.

In Queens, Mike Keegan is celebrating with his wife Ellie, his son Tommy and friends his recent promotion to detective in a precinct in Manhattan.Meanwhile, in a fancy club, socialite Claire Gregory witnesses the murder of the owner of the place by powerful mobster Joey Venza.Mike is assigned to protect her in the night shift in her apartment in Manhattan.When Venza threatens Claire, the contact of Mike with Claire gets closer and conflicts him, dividing between the love for his family and the heat passion for Claire and the fascination for her world...Ho Hum, coming from Scott I was expecting something more stylish than a few canapes and a Fine Young Cannibals soundtrack. It's not that the film is bad, it's just so slow and tiresome that it feels like you're watching an epic.And it's the same old story. Rich woman witnesses a murder, gets a poorer cop to do the titular job, they fall for each other etc. etc.the only thing thats missing is Billy Joels 'Uptown Girl' being played every five minutes, to remind people of the class divide.So thanks for Berenger, Rogers, and Bracco for putting in such good performances, therwise this film would have sunk quicker than the Titanic. The chemistry between the three leads is so convincing, you would think that they were doing this for real.So all on all it's the weakest Scott film i've seen, just lacking in involvement or proper narration.

A good plot premise from Howard Franklin and a likable performance from Mimi Rogers are about the only things going for this Ridley Scott film, "Someone to Watch Over Me".The script is slow and sadly predictable. The usual visual splendour and fantastic cinematography that we have come to expect from Scott as a director of such fine films as "Alien", "Bladerunner" and "Black Rain", are all missing here.Although there was little scope with which Ridley Scott could have worked, he has only done enough to make this 'thriller' just entertaining. Just.Thursday, June 27, 1991 - Video