

It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it!
05/08/1987
Overview
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Silver Screen Partners II

Touchstone Pictures

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094025
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1047663
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Review by: kevin2019
Written by: kevin2019 on 2024-01-25T00:25:44.017Z
"Stakeout" is a perfectly packaged film which has been expertly crafted to successfully achieve maximum results. It has been aimed directly at the commercial market and this would ordinarily mean a somewhat cynical and by-the-numbers motion picture experience with lots of money thrown at it to accommodate the noisy action sequences with very little attention being paid to the rest of it. Of course a good deal of that also applies here, although with the significant difference being a lot more attention has been paid to making this entertaining above all else. What all this amounts to on this occasion is a very engaging and well paced film with considerably more depth of character and story than you would expect and it has a fair share of humorous and perilous surprises thrown into the mix for good measure.