Stakeout (1987)

Best movie of this year hands down!

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The real problem with this funny film is that aiden quinn cannot in any way be believed to be a hardened criminal, he can barely tie his shoe laces without assistance...and he isn't the least bit funny...put any real man in lieu of this dork and its a huge hit...he dragged this film to the gutter....i loved the rapport between dreyfus and stowe...

Richard Montgomery (Aidan Quinn) makes a daring escape with the help of his cousin Caylor Reese (Ian Tracey). He killed an FBI agent and then they killed a prison guard. Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) are assigned to stakeout his old girlfriend Maria McGuire (Madeleine Stowe). Phil Coldshank (Dan Lauria) and Jack Pismo (Forest Whitaker) are the other two cops assigned the other half of the stakeout. She's suppose to be 313 lbs but instead, Chris starts falling for the beautiful McGuire.This has some mildly funny moments. Estevez is solid as the happily married man. Dreyfuss is the one with the fun brash single guy. They have good chemistry together and it's mostly a good buddy cop movie. It's missing some bigger laughs. The guys are not necessarily comedians for that to work.

Two detectives are assigned to spy on the ex-girlfriend of an escaped killer and find themselves enjoying the voyeuristic perks of this duty. Dreyfuss and Estevez are both very engaging and the script gives them a lot of good material, making the endless buddy cop banter common to this sort of exercise not only tolerable, but one of the movie's best features. I found myself laughing out loud even in the movie's slowest parts. Madeleine Stowe is unforgettable as the object of the pairs long-lensed interests and Aidan Quinn had a star-making turn here as the killer. Director John Badham shifts gears effortlessly between farce, action comedy, and suspense depending on the situation and makes the exercise slickly entertaining without anything ever seeming forced of hitting false notes. This is a very entertaining movie. Check it out.

Spoilers! Don't continue reading if you don't want spoilers.We're supposed to believe that the old, skanky, and very unattractive Richard Dreyfus gets the beautiful, young woman? This, after lying to her, spying on her, breaking and entering into her apartment, peeping at her taking a shower, and grabbing her violently by the sweater and shaking her to "show her how much he 'loves' her." Uh, yeah, this is what women want, yup. (That was sarcastic, in case it's not clear.)Also, cat lovers beware, there is cat abuse in this movie. And it's seen as a hilarious joke. It's not funny at all to those of us who care about cats.The whole movie is so unbelievable that it's laughable.