Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
Directed by Ridley Scott
Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.
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Chung-hoon Chung’s ( Oldboy ) neon-lit cinematography is reminiscent of Ridley Scott’s neo-noir output of the 1980s, most notably Someone to Watch Over Me and Black Rain , while production designer Marcus Rowland ( Rocketman ) melds past a present with mesmeric precision.
The haunting score by Michael Andrews also augments the film's dark mood, as does the cinematography by Steven B. Poster ("Someone to Watch Over Me").
That’s been Scott’s signature over the past 30-odd years; he’s made good films, bad films and lots of indifferent ones (“Someone to Watch Over Me,” anyone?
Throughout his career, Scott has become an expert at providing viewers with lavishly detailed worlds to frame his narratives (which may be one reason why such frankly contemporary works like "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "Matchstick Men" tend to be somewhat wanting) and "Prometheus" is no exception--this is one of those films where everything is designed in such an imaginatively detailed manner that I can easily see people pausing the Blu-Ray simply just to investigate the visuals in further detail.
But he's always been more miss than hit, with such duds as Legend (1986), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Black Rain (1989), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), White Squall (1996), and G.I. Jane (1997).
Yeah, I know that “Legend” and “Someone to Watch Over Me” have their defenders (myself included), but that’s not the point.
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When the material is weak (“Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Black Rain,” “A Good Year”), the results can be fairly dreadful.