WOMAN OF DESIRE
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A lawyer defends a yacht captain accused of killing his boss and raping his mistress.
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A real movie, not just a soft-core
Decent production values, decent direction, decent acting. This seems to be a real movie, and not just a soft-core offering. A lot of twists at the end, some I saw coming, and some I didn’t. Bo was as beautiful as ever. Grade: C
OK film with wooden acting.
Moderately interesting mystery tale, but hampered by some unclear plot points and wooden performances by the three main leads (Robert Mitchum, in a supporting role, towers above them all). Bo Derek is in great shape for a woman in her late thirties, but she’s totally expressionless; still, it’s the smug Steven Bauer that ranks at the top of the bad-acting list. Sex-wise, there is really only one scene worth mentioning (on a motorcycle), but at least it’s a memorably bold one. (**)
Convoluted, engaging tale of murder and deceit
If you are like any good, red-blooded, heterosexual American male, you probably just wanted to check out Bo’s bo-dacious body–She delivers probably her best on screen nudity in this one, including a pretty heavy sex scene on a motorcycle. You definitely won’t be disappointed!
But if you go off “fast forward” and hit the normal speed “play” button, you find that this is a really engaging, entangled ball of yarn that will keep you guessing until *after* the end. I have seen it a couple of times, and I still don’t know, besides Bo, who was in on the caper.
This film really delivers on the sexy film noir.
Towards the end of his career, Robert Mitchum would appear in anything…and this proves it.
Apart from “10”, the career of actress Bo Derek is essentially one terrible film after another…most of which seem to include her taking off her clothes. Among her infamous appearances, along with their current IMDB scores, are “Tarzan the Ape Man” (3.4), “Bolero” (3.0), “Ghosts Can’t Do It” (2.2), “The Master of Disguise” (3.4), “Boom” (2.3), “Sunstorm” (3.5) and “Orca” (5.8). While possibly not the worst actress of all time, she certainly is in the running. Now the odd thing about all this is that in several films, very well respected actors appeared in these films…such as Anthony Quinn in “Ghosts Can’t Do It”, George Kennedy in “Bolero” and “Woman of Desire” with Robert Mitchum.
The story begins with a twist. There’s a nude person lying on the beach (no surprise) but it’s NOT Bo ( a BIG surprise). It happens to be the captain of a yacht who claims he was washed overboard. However, he’s shocked to hear that the woman aboard the boat, Christina (Derek), claims he raped her and murdered her husband. The film is about the investigation and court hearing to determine exactly what really happened.
As I mention in the summary, Robert Mitchum is one of the stars in this film. Now considering how well respected an actor he was AND how bad Derek’s reputation was, you wonder why he wanted to make the film in the first place. I can only assume it was all about the money. Thank goodness for small favors that at least he keeps his clothes on during the film considering he was 76 in 1994.
So, despite a lot of very gratuitous nudity, is this film watchable? Note that I am not saying is it good but is it watchable. Well, not really. While this film is supposed to be about rape and murder, throughout the course of the film you keep seeing flashback after flashback with Bo getting naked! It really cheapens the notion of rape…almost making it seem sexy…which is just disgusting. And, the acting and writing in between is not especially good. Frankly, why not just make a porno film and skip all the stupid dialog and plot? So what this means is that if you want a good story, look elsewhere. And, if you want good porn, you can probably find a lot better and a bit more explicit on the internet.
By the way, despite this being a bad film, Mitchum, despite badly choosing to be in the movie, is pretty good.
Cheap but Bo Looks Great
Woman of Desire (1993)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
After the success of BASIC INSTINCT erotic-thrillers were turning up every few weeks. They ranged from some good knock-offs to downright horrid pieces of trash. This one here is a pretty bad movie but there are enough campy moments and the cast is attractive enough to make it hard to turn off. Captain Jack Lynch (Jeff Fahey) washes on shore saying that his boss (Steven Bauer) fell overboard during a storm. The boss has a wife (Bo Derek) who claims that Jack shot her husband and then raped her but Jack claims he’s innocent and had been carrying on an affair with the wife. If you’re looking for an actual plot your not going to find much of one here as there are enough plot holes here that one will question if a few first-graders didn’t right this thing. As is to be expected, Derek plays the beautiful blonde who might not be a very good person as she is constantly sleeping with various men and she might have a few reasons as to why she’d want to see her husband dead. It will come as no shock that Derek doesn’t give that much of a performance but she certainly looks extremely good here at the age of 37. She’s clearly not here for her acting but for her sex appeal and she has quite a bit of that. She has quite a few nude scenes and there’s no denying that she looks wonderful and this is the main reason people are going to be checking this out and have been checking it out since it’s constant plays on Cinemax throughout the late-night hours. Fahey has always been a favorite of mine and his presence here gave the film some added value even though he’s not overly good either. The big shock is that Robert Mitchum plays his lawyer here and actually gets a lot of screen time. This here certainly isn’t a classic performance but it was fun seeing him in this type of role and he clearly gives the best performance of the bunch. It’s pretty hard to take the film serious because there are just so many bad things. The direction is pretty poor, the music is horrid and even the editing looks very cheap. The dialogue is extremely bad and the courtroom scenes are rather embarrassing. With that said, with Derek looking as great as she does and the other campy values, if you’re a fan of bad movies then this one here is worth watching.
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- TriviaAt the end of the movie, Christina is reading City of Gold by Len Deighton, a WWII spy novel.
- QuotesChristina Ford: A long time ago I decided that the key to life was pleasing men. I’ve gotten pretty good at it.
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