Tom Berenger plays a tough cop in a movie directed by Ridley Scott . You can expect a lot with SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME but I'm afraid this isn't anything more than a very average movie . The plot is rather predictable with married cop Mike Keegan being assingned to guard a murder witness and then embarking on an affair with her . Of course since the average audience member wouldn't like it if their partner cheated on them Keegan's adultery is going to land him in serious trouble as it always does in all these type of movies . Perhaps Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson could make a movie called ON THE BEAT where a bunch of policemen discuss that two things cops must never do is have an affair with a character in a movie or go into a kitchen to get a drink of water since this almost always leads to movie cops being killed . Alternatively if film makers want to be even more radical they should do a movie where the only consequences of adultery is a guilty conscience
It's not just the predictable script that makes this very average , as I mentioned SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME stars Tom Berenger and is directed by Ridley Scott but neither star nor director seem to do anything to embellish the movie . Berenger especially is disappointing and his unconvincing " Noo Yiork " accent seems to disappear halfway through the movie . It's by no means a bad movie but is very average and everyone involved in this has done much better stuff
It's not just the predictable script that makes this very average , as I mentioned SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME stars Tom Berenger and is directed by Ridley Scott but neither star nor director seem to do anything to embellish the movie . Berenger especially is disappointing and his unconvincing " Noo Yiork " accent seems to disappear halfway through the movie . It's by no means a bad movie but is very average and everyone involved in this has done much better stuff