American Gigolo

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Audience Member Richard Gere is the man to call for pleasure Here he plays a gigolo Julian that’s mastered the art of seducing women He doesn’t ask for much in return just the proper payment to make them feel alive again Most notably he serves to please a woman named Anne But his life is rear ended when he’s suddenly accused of murder Julian claims he’s innocent It takes 40 min for the actual plot to kick off and this has a lot of silent moments It gets less exciting as it goes along and Anne disappears for the rest of the running time Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/25 Full Review Zackary T Richard Gere is great in this. He manages to be completely unlikeable and insanely charismatic at the same time which is no small feat. It's very apparent that we were dealing with and watching a bona fide movie star. A movie star that can also happen to act his ass off. The rest of the film not so amazing. Not anywhere near Paul Schrader's best work. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review W. W. W the story itself is uninteresting except its title. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/27/23 Full Review pierce k This movie was awesome i loved it i'll give it 5 stars. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/23/23 Full Review Taylor L There are four or five different versions of Blondie's 'Call Me' in this film, I'm pretty sure one was played on a pipe organ in a Gothic cathedral for some reason. For a movie that established Richard Gere as a leading man and a sex symbol of the '80s, American Gigolo feels strangely detached. It's a bit more of a daring design than erotic thrillers had been willing to entertain before, with Gere (unsurprisingly) playing a gigolo to a group of scandalous older women, and even male nudity from its protagonist. But it just doesn't convey that shocking edge of the erotic angle, though it does deliver a bit of the paranoia that defined the decade prior with the films of Alan J. Pakula, albeit stretched thin across a noir framework. It's got style but doesn't make your pulse pick up either with the sex or with the murder. Gere always portrays relatively muted characters and this is no different; a bit of animation in the small moments, instead of the emotional outbursts on paper, would have picked the film up quite a bit as he frantically runs around trying to piece together a frame-up job in the seedy underbelly of sex work. Instead, if there's a standout performance it's Bill Duke as a calm pimp, someone who knows more than he lets on. Slow-burn thrillers can work, but American Gigolo doesn't have enough suspense to keep the atmosphere thick and heavy. (3/5) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review steve d I like Richard Gere a lot but there isn't a lot here. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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