Half Moon Street (1986)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Half Moon Street may have innocently and intentionally aspired to be a great compelling and well-rounded suspenseful and intriguing noir adaptation thriller, (Whoo, take a second to breathe... It basically is) but it incidentally and inevitably hurriedly became an all out sexy tribute to Sigourney Weaver. This incredible leading lady plays one incredible leading lady. Sigourney Weaver looks so hot in this movie when her clothes are on or off. (I like them off.) The nudity from Half Moon Street is outstanding, and Sigourney makes it way better than you can handle. The particular nude scene when Sigourney is cycling topless and working out on the exercise bike and then she's naked and into the shower to rinse off is (please finish this sentence!). And with all due respect to all of the things all going on around Sigourney's beautiful lead, very nice. Sigourney Weaver is something special, I mean that. She is the most beautiful woman that I have ever met in my life. Well I mean, we haven't ever actually met like really met met in real life, person to person, face to face, (cheek to cheek), but it feels like it. (I love you, Sigourney Weaver!! You look good.) Sigourney's beauty and attractiveness is not only skin deep. My word, who is this handsome and curious looking fellow whom keeps appearing and reappearing alongside Miss Weaver from time to time credited to the name of Michael Caine? Michael Caine? Never heard of him. He looks miserable. The super pretty Sigourney Weaver makes Half Moon Street so so good. On second thought, maybe this Michael Caine guy ain't so bad. And lastly, at one point in Half Moon Street, Dr. Lauren Slaughter seducingly remarks ''I'll dazzle him with my with wit'', um, Sigourney, (Uhm hum, uhm hum), you dazzle me with your wit (and your beauty!). I love her hair in this movie.

So I'm looking for an oldie to watch on a boring afternoon. I ran into this one on YouTube and since I like Michael Cain I decided to give it a go. I wish I'd given it a miss, instead.The film is nothing to write home about. But it's Sigourney Weaver's character that annoyed me beyond endurance. She plays Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a super intelligent, witty, educated woman, who is a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London, and who decides to go into prostitution to fight boredom and make ends meet. At first you think she's honest and pragmatic about it. She's bored with her job, she needs the money, she turns tricks for an escort agency. That I could have respected, if that's the word I want.Instead, she treats us to an endlessly snarly, hackneyed, pseudo- feminist attitude, which is painful to watch. She eschews makeup and nice clothes (her wits are enough to dazzle clients), and spouts commonplace, moral drivel to her "employers" and all her dates, as if to say, 'Look, I'm still intelligent, educated; and I'm a liberated woman, too, not an object.' It's not prostitution if you want to do it, you see. Men will respect you in the morning. Seriously? You're still turning tricks for money, dear. Men still pay to use your body. You won't understand my complaint if you are a man, or if you are a modern-day feminist (all the latter understand is 'You don't criticize women. Ever.' And they think that's enough to make them good feminists). But I was annoyed and bored to half to death.And in the end, in spite of all her intelligence, education, smart-as-a-whip comebacks ... Dr. Slaughter still gets conned, big time. Aww.

The premise was good. A young, attractive scientist moonlights as a call girl for money for scientific research and gets caught in an international web of intrigue and danger. However,as good as Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine are,the film is dull.The supporting cast walks theough their roles and by the time the climax comes Its too late. Actually the only well done scene is the climax.When the counter agent is finally revealed (actor's identity no revealed her for spoiler reasons)He takes Weaver by surprise and one of the most realistic fight scenes in a film occurs...ending with Weaver being rendered helpless by a brutal punch in the stomach. the scene is so real that it seems like it belonged in another film. My advice is to skip this one..A Valiant attempt..but a big miss.

Before I give you my opinion of this movie, I must tell you that I bought it just for the fact that Sigourney Weaver was in it. Back in late '93 - early '94, I was just becoming one of Ms. Weaver's fans. I bought the video from a little video store close to my house. When I watched it, it was (and still is!) a real treat to see a topless Ms. Weaver. Not only is she topless in more than one place in the film, the whole "famous exercise bike" scene has to rank as one of the top ten seduction scenes in my book! That having been said, as the years have passed, I've grown to like the rest of the movie for what it is: a romance/political suspense movie. I have yet to read the book, but I hope to sometime. All in all, a great movie!