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Body Double (1984)

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Struggling L.A. actor Jake Scully is fired from his vampire B-movie part by fickle director Rubin and homeless after finding his girl friend in bed with another. he eagerly accepts an invitation to house-sit from fellow actor Sam Bouchard, whom he befriend over drinks in a bar, a luxury villa as Sam has got a job offer in Seattle. Its saucy perk is directing a telescope at a foxy woman undressing voluptuously like clockwork, but after Sam has gone, Jake sees her in danger. He starts inquiring, following abusive mobster-kept porn actress Holly and saves her from a dodgy robber or stalker, who still gets away with a card he stole from the purse Jake recovered for her. Jake now risk getting caught between the mobsters and investigating police detective Jim McLean. --IMDb
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Review by Chad
Added: February 26, 2004
This is going to be a tough one to call. It starts out very slow-paced... not much happens at all, except for some good ol' spying. Now, I'm all for some good tit watching, but they went quite overboard with these scenes. A softcore boobfest that stretches for ten minutes, well, I have enough porn if I wanted to watch that. After all that, we watch the main guy stalk this woman through a mall for another fifteen or so, then he kisses up on her outside for another ten, and then... well, you should be getting the point on how these scenes drag by now.

After the woman gets knocked off, it starts to pick up a bit, with our main guy watching some porn and recognizing the chick in there. He hunts her down, and we have another long scene with him getting a part working with her, talking with her, yatta yatta. Then we have the ending scenes, where everything comes together in one grand, shocking finale.

The reason I said this is going to be a tough one to call, is because the storyline was very nice... the acting was decent enough, and the murder scene was well-done. But it was just way too slow, and those scenes drug on and on and on and on and... It seems as though they had a 30 - 45 minute movie, and just extended the scenes to make it full-length.

Overall, not bad, just too slow-paced for my liking. 5/10.
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