Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Armand the absence of story is the fundamental characteristic. than, the nudity of Carre Otis.a film who , at its time, was impressive for its courage and for deep sensuality. today it remains only an episode from the past. soft piece from an industry, it is a chain of sex scenes and frontal nudity with few drops of strange poetry and violence. a film who has ambition to challenge the viewer and who becomes only good memory about an obscure role of Mickey Rourkey and Jacqueline Bisset. is it enough ? maybe. because the film is a strange legend who not gives many events but it is important for a form of sensitivity who was always seductive. and, maybe, that is the key of its success.

montroyal86 I thought this movie was fantastic although it is not to everyone's taste.There is quite a bit of nudity and erotic scenes but if you don't mind that both sexes can enjoy this film.I liked the plot and the location in beautiful Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.It makes me want to go there.Mickey Rourke,Carre Otis and Jacqueline Bisset I thought played their characters very naturally.It was interesting to watch the dynamics of power,money,lust,sex and love play out and I could definitely relate to it.The natural real life chemistry between Wheeler(Mickey Rourke)and Emily Reed(Carre Otis)really plays out in this movie and climaxes at the end to one of the best love scenes I've seen in mainstream film.I had to watch the movie twice to fully understand the rather complicated power game twists but if you like arty,erotic movies then you'll probably quite enjoy this film.

LeonLouisRicci This is a beautiful looking Movie with sumptuous colors and a lot of Fandango. Everyone is dressed to the 9 and 1/2's. It can't help but be appealing on the surface and reminds one of Magazine ads or upscale Feminine advertising found in Vogue or some other slickness.The soundtrack is infectious as much as the "scenery" both animate and inanimate and the Actors are equal in the eye-candy department. But, unfortunately it all goes from there in a downward spiral of very vapid dialog and not much else to help it rise from the Erotica that is its central conceit.It is sensuous enough, if that's your cup of carnality. It is never lewd, just softly explicit and not at all shy about its pre-late-night-cable nudity and sexual activity. There is kind of a back story of inhibition and hang-ups, Lawyer shenanigans and Rich Folks wheeling and dealings. But that all takes a backseat in the this Limo driven, Pretty People, decadence of fun in the sun.Overall it is very pleasant to look at and is easy on the ears, when there is no dialog, so it is not the embarrassment many Critics make out. It is a kind of interesting, voyeuristic peek at the Jet Set. We see that with all their wealth and free living, there is as much or more Neurosis there as anywhere. It is just more colorful.

digaum It's amazing how the entire culture of a country can be so poorly depicted. As a Brazilian I'm very disgusted with this film; it depicts Brazil as if it was the United States' nude beach, or even worse, whore-house. It is filled with stereotypes about Brazilian society views towards sex and nudity. I will not list all the factual errors about Brazilian society because I don't have enough time, but here are the ones that hurts most my "brazilianity"... The bar where the character of Mickey Rourke takes the character of Carré Otis plays African music and the hostess greets them speaking Portguese as if she was from Portugal. Carnival celebrations in Rio doesn't happen everyday, and not in open places like beaches since God knows when, and they don't feature Latin music so often. There are major differences between Bahia (which features trio elétricos on the streets) and Rio (the one with the "samba schools" and the sambódromo) carnival celebrations. Where are all the cops of Rio? The city is filled with them in times of carnival (specially because it's the time when the city welcomes more tourists than usual). Nudity and sex - specially by females - are much less tolerated in a machista society like the Brazilian... Brazil has strict laws concerning public nudity, and who don't respect them actually go to jail... But I guess none of this matters in a semi-pornographic motion picture with decadent stars. This movie only "improves" the international image of Brazil as the place where people from the first world come to promote their orgy balls.P.S.: The only good thing of this film which I can think about is that it revealed the talent of axé queen Margareth Menezes to the rest of the world.