When a veteran cop (Tom Berenger) is assigned to protect a wealthy woman (Mimi Rogers) who witnessed a murder, he finds himself falling for the blue blood.
This entanglement puts both his marriage and his family’s lives on the line when the killer turns his sights on him.
Based on the movie’s pedigree, I was kind of hopeful.
Like all Ridley Scott projects, Someone to Watch Over Me looks great.
But the movie never has lift off.
It is a familiar thriller premise, with a love triangle lent interest by the class difference between the would-be lovers.
A better film would have lent into the layers of tension the story lays out: Betraying his wife, crossing professional and ethical boundaries, and then the variable of a homicidal killer jeopardizing it all.
Tom Berenger is a relatively unknown quantity to me. The one film I have seen of his from this period is Betrayed, in which he plays a Neo-Nazi.
He is believable as a blue-collar cop and has decent chemistry with both Rogers and Lorraine Bracco as his wife.
Frankly, while he is believable as an unfaithful husband, the movie does not do enough with that complication.
There is nothing here - no great forbidden love. It just plays as a run-of-the-mill affair.
And the crime story is uninvolving. We get a couple of competent setpieces, but nothing that sticks in the mind.
The story feels so small and pointless.
Scott’s feel for creating a sense of place and character is the film’s standout element - you get a sense of Berenger entering a completely different world from the one he lives in.
But that is about it.
The cast are good (Bracco is fantastic), but there is not much else to discuss.
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