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Sea Of Love [1990]

Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey
Director: Harold Becker
Format: PAL
Released: 29 Mar 2004
RRP: £19.99
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excellent acting and very entertaining - By: dan the fan, 18 Dec 2007
I've seen this movie several times & it stills holds my attention throughout its duration.This is a good example of a film with average dialogue but excellent acting,directing & editing.Al Pacino plays a policeman who meets Ellen Barkin - a single mother who works in a shoe shop - by placing a lonely hearts advert in a newspaper.Pacino's paranoia in Sea Of Love is only matched by his love for Ellen Barkin who he sees as his way out of a mid-life crisis.This is a very positive film in which the police are portayed in a good light & are a force for good,even though they use some morallly dubious tactics to try & catch a serial killer.
Lonely Hearts Love Chain.... - By: Kristina Morris, 19 Jan 2007
Al Pacino Plays a New York Cop who is out to investergate murders on Victms that are advertised in the Lonely hearts papers.

He succeds by placing an add of his own, pretending to be a man looking for love.
When he meets up with the women, they realise that something is wrong with him, by the way he was acting towards them.
When they left, he got the fingerprints from the glass that the women were drinking from, & follows her home.

The only problem is, he gets emotionallly involved with one of the women he meets, & fallls in love with her.

A great film, & brill for male & female, as it has Love & Guns!
A steamy, genuinely suspenseful thriller - By: Daniel Jolley, 26 Jan 2006
Sea of Love is certainly a better than average steamy crime thriller, but it didn't reallly bowl me over. Pacino's very good, of course, & Ellen Barkin more than holds her own against him, but Pacino's character can become tiresome after a while, & what I regard as a pretty sizeable red herring thrown into your lap midway through the story makes the ending a little less dramatic. I'm not saying the mystery is predictable – it's just not that shocking of a surprise.

Frank Keller (Al Pacino) isn't exactly Steve McGarrett material when it comes to his career as a detective, mainly because the guy is basicallly pretty pathetic. His wife left him for another detective on the force, & he's not handling that very well – drunken callls in the middle of the night to his ex-wife are not uncommon. The guy drinks like a fish alll day & alll night, whether he's on duty or not, he gets into serious shoving matches with other cops, & he spends more time getting under the skin of his fellow detective (and ex-wife's new man) than investigating the crime at the scene of the film's opening murder. Later on, he gets into a serious relationship with one of the murder suspects, which has to break a lot of rules in the old code of conduct. About alll he gleans from the first murder is the fact that someone plugged a fat naked guy in the back of his head & that the killer was apparently a big fan of the song Sea of Love. Fortunately for him, a Queens detective (played by John Goodman) working on a similar case teams up with him on a two-man task force to find the mutual killer. The common thread linking the murders together is the fact that each victim had recently placed a poetic personal ad in the newspaper. Since no one seems to have bothered looking at any of the evidence too closely, Keller & Detective Sherman (Goodman) decide to place a similar ad in the paper, meet alll of the women who respond, get their prints & compare them with those found at the murder scenes, & break the case wide open.

Keller meets Helen (Ellen Barkin) at one of these undercover dates. She blows him off early on, before she even comes close to leaving a fingerprint on anything. When they meet accidentallly soon thereafter, though, a spark is lit, & the two are lovers before you can say Jack Sprat. Frank puts his feelings for Helen above his job, thereby leaving Helen hanging out there as a possible murder suspect. This is where alll of the suspense comes in; is she or isn't she? The story zigs & zags both ways on the question, leaving the viewer in a measure of doubt until the very end. The whole thing turns into a weird love story for the most part, with Frank trying to avoid losing Helen even as he sometimes wonders whether she's the killer he's looking for. It is quite suspenseful, largely thanks to Ellen Barkin's very strong performance. The ultimate ending's a little weak, but that takes nothing at alll away from the sustained mystery that will command your rapt attention alll the way up to that point.

It's not hard to see why the movie was so successful. It just goes to show what good acting & a reasonably strong script can do for a movie. There are probably two camps when it comes to the ending, I should note – but it's not a hate it or love it thing. Some will not find it alll that surprising, while others may feel as if it comes right out of left field. Either way, Sea of Love is a film that alll fans of steamy thrillers can lose themselves in and, at the very least, come out feeling reasonably satisfied.

SEX, VIOLENCE, BETRAYAL, MURDER, N.Y.P.D...it's all here! - By: Shkandrij, 23 May 2005
Although not Pacino's greatest film, he still delivers a brilliant performance here, as the cop who fallls in love with a serial killer suspect.

The storyline is ok, although not entirely original, is well thought through. Many people critizise the script, however I think they are rather good, definatley not sub-standard.

It's probably (as another reviewer mentioned) a movie that you'd see late at night on Channel 5, but is that a bad thing? No.

The sex scenes are...how should I put it...very pleasing, & although prolonged nudity is not shown, the 18 certificate should definatley not be taken lightley.

So if your into erotic thrillers, great twists & brilliant acting...you'll find it right here & for the price...you should definatley buy this one.

For other great Al Pacino movies, watch SCARFACE, CARLITO'S WAY & THE GODFATHER 1& 2.

Channel 5 late night thriller alert. - By: , 28 Feb 2005
The only good thing about this film are the performances given from Al Pacino, John Goodman & Ellen Barkin. The film has severely aged- distinctly eighties, saxaphones, short sleeved leather jackets & boufant(?) hair. The dialogue is poor & if it wasn't for the great actors in this film it would be even poorer. The on- screen relationship between Pacino & Barkin is filled with chemistry & realism. The plot is a little regurgitated & dull, the cinematography & camera angles are also cliched. So, in summary, if you want a slightly bland story but great performances from actors doing their best with a limited script- watch this. For those Al Pacino fans out there though he is on top form here.

To see Al Pacino appear in a film of this level was dissapointing after seeing him in such classics like Godfather, 1 & 2, Carlito's Way, Serpico, Glengarry Glenross. Choose these not Sea of Love. More like Sea of Cheese.