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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time OutTime OutThere are splendid economies, too: Rogers' mirrored dressing-room registers first as a social humiliation for the cop, who can't find the exit, but later his intimacy with her surroundings gives him an edge over a killer. There's little waste, though the thriller element could have been tuned up a bit.
- 75TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineMuch of the credit for what works in the film should go to the excellent cast. Berenger is superb, and Rogers proves here that she can handle a lead role with class and aplomb. Bracco, however, steals the picture with a refreshing energy and wit.
- 70Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThe 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.
- 60Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyWhat with these pictorial pollutants, he loses sight of plot. "Someone" suffers somewhat from Scott's blind spot, but it's still a reasonably enjoyable romantic thriller with "Platoon's" Tom Berenger on his best behavior.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe makers of this film got so carried away by their High Concept that they missed the point of the whole story.
- 50Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumWhile 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.
- 50Miami HeraldHal BoedekerMiami HeraldHal BoedekerA handsome but empty romantic thriller with the most passionless love triangle you may ever see. [9 Oct 1987, p.D1]
- 40The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyHoward Franklin's screenplay plays less like a feature film than like the pilot for a failed television series about New York policemen.