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Someone to Watch over Me | Year: 1987 Classification: Drama Directed: - Ridley Scott Actors/Actresses: - Tom Berenger - Mimi Rogers a smart, stylish, thriller Mimi Rogers plays a wealthy socialate who witnesses a brutal<BR>murder. Tom Berenger and two other detectives are to protect<BR>her in three different shifts. Tom Berenger gets the night shift. This movie shows the side of life that Mimi Roger's<BR>character brings to blue collar detective Tom Berenger. She<BR>introduces him to art, classical music, fancy parties. A romance<BR>develops. Tom Berenger is married and has a son. He is torn <BR>between his family life and the life he can live with Mimi<BR>Rogers. All this aside the murderer is after Mimi Rogers after<BR>he is released from jail. This movie is full of suspense and<BR>a classy thriller. Mimi Rogers was perfect for the part she looks beautiful. She and Tom Berenger have excellent chemistry.<BR>The actress who plays Berenger's wife is good also. This movie<BR>has a shocking ending worthy of the suspenseful storyline. One<BR>of the greatest thrillers ever made one of the classiest thrillers ever made This movie is fantastic. Mimi Rogers plays a wealthy socialate<BR>who witnesses a murder. The killer is after her. Tom Berenger<BR>plays a detective who along with two other detectives are assigned to protect her. He takes the night shift. He is married and has a son. He is impressed by Mimi Rogers upper<BR>class lifestyle, her beautiful apartment, classical music, she<BR>is a very classy lady. I must say Mimi Rogers was perfect for <BR>the part she is beautiful and carries herself so gracefully.<BR> Tom Berenger is a blue collar detective. The two actors have<BR>excellent chemistry. Tom Berenger is married. A romance begins<BR>with Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers. The killer is released on<BR>a mistake which was made for his arrest. He is crazy and goes<BR>after Mimi Rogers. This movie has a look about it like a 1940's<BR>movie. The sets are amazing and the locations are breathtaking.<BR>The movie is very suspenseful and the ending is excellent. This<BR>is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion Window to the soul I have never seen another movie in which the actors were more capable of baring their souls with nothing more than the expression in their eyes. Bracco, Rodgers and Berenger 'spoke' far more than was scripted, leading us through the changes in relationships between the characters and the depth of feeling accompanying those changes without words. In most scenes concerning the confusion, pain, desperation and love which ties Mike, Ellie and Clair together, the spoken word was practically superfluous. Ridley Scott is a master at creating tangible atmosphere; I could feel the bite of the cold New York air and smell the aromas of the city; I could have wrapped the opulence of Clair's penthouse around me like a silk duvetyn. Mr. Scott is also a master of the understated. Consider the moment that Mike crossed the line of fidelity and kissed Clair for the first time.... There was more passion in that embrace, in that kiss, than I have seen in a dozen movies put together since, because I was left to make of it what I would. Less being more, each viewer is allowed to create their own vision of what took place behind those closed doors, and so to make this part of the movie their own. I admire the way Mr. Scott used the Manhattan skyline to show the change in Mike's focus. First Mike waits for his train, back turned to Manhattan, absorbed in his daily paper. The next morning he glances up at the skyline wistfully, having seen up close how the other half lives, aware that he could never belong there. Finally he gazes longingly uptown to where Clair waits, unsure as to how he arrived at this impossible juncture in his life. To add accolaids once again to the actors, director and to the screenplay, I must say that although I am not a proponent of adultery, I completely empathized with each character by the end of the film. (I truely thought that I would hate Mike). The characters were so well developed and their emotions were so clearly defined (in part due to that non-verbal communication) that I cared about each one of them, and for a moment wished that everyone could live 'happily ever after'. This is no fairy tale, though. Life is tough, but we all go on, as do Mike, Ellie and Clair. One last note .... The only reason I gave this film 4 instead of 5 stars was that god-awful opera that played constantly throughout Clair's penthouse. Had I been Clair I would have jumped off of the building! (Yes, I realize I have just incurred the ire of all opera lovers - I'm sorry.) The saving grace was that we got to hear two renditions of that great classic "Someone To Watch Over Me". A song to soothe all souls. 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