Review of Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) by Tim S — 10 Aug 2009

Has some good things going for it, but ultimately never rises above the standard cop drama story. You have this girl, Claire, who witnesses a murder in a nightclub in New York. Afraid that there might be an attempt on her life before she can pick the killer out of a line-up, the cops put her under 24-hour surveillance, with our main character, Mike Keegan (Tom Berenger) being one of the three cops in charge of watching over her.

He falls in love, but is also married with a child, and I can't decide whether I like the love story aspect because it is so nontraditional or I dislike it because it makes the hero out to be a big jerk.

Some of the casting is great; Jerry Orbach is natural as a lieutenant as you would imagine, and Andreas Katsulas is menacing as the bad guy, you may remember him from The Fugitive. It's all well and good; I still haven't seen anything from Ridley Scott that I would qualify as "bad", but this type of story has been done to death and I expect there to be more to it coming from such a talented mind.