Clandestine

well, gregory dark's movies always have:

• a cute woman as the star - a quiet, violent man as the villain - a nice lesbian scene - a story ´

is he good? let's say that i prefer him to adrian lyne

UNDERCOVER (3 outta 5 stars) Well, I assumed this was a "real" movie... the video box and plot description seemed to indicate that... but 5 minutes into the flick it becomes obvious that this is softcore porn (tipoffs: frequent gratuitous nude grappling, obviously phony names in the credits). The amazing thing to me was: it actually works as a fairly routine police thriller as well as a sex movie! Not a great thriller by any stretch of the imagination... but the acting is competent, the script is decent and the premise is actually explored with more candor and honesty than it would have been in a "real" movie. A sexy, tomboy female cop (Athena Massey) goes undercover in a high-class whorehouse to try and track someone who is killing off the girls. She is supposed to be sheltered from having actual sex by other undercover cops posing as clients and giving a secret password. Unfortunately the password turns out to be a little too commonplace an expression in a place like this and she finds herself having to deal with actual clients. Well, you don't expect the girl to break her cover, do you? This is her job after all... This has always been a favorite theme of mine in undercover cop movies... how far can/should a cop go in order to play their role? Usually in mainstream movies the issue gets side-stepped and the cop never has to actually go all the way to protect their cover... but that's not the case here. Nice performance by actor Tom Tayback as the police sergeant (something about his voice and manner made me think he was related to Bruce Dern).

A female cop goes undercover in a high price whorehouse to find a murderer and discovers she likes the assignment more than she should.

Good for her. This movie is an abomination. This is zero acting ability, zero story, the writing is horrendous and it appears they just stuck a camera on the ground and filmed because there is no direction either.

And the sound is out of sync by a second which makes the entire affair annoying.

I cannot tell you enough to stay away from this horrible horrible movie! There is not one redeeming aspect to it. Not one.

No pun intended - obviously the title is referring to a cop trying to find stuff out about a serial killer. For that she only has to pretend to be a high class ... prostitute I think is the correct word for it. A woman of different pleasures. Ah well someone has to do it, right? And why not take one of the hottest woman out there? Athena and her body are mind blowing. I assume depending on your first time watch, she'll do more than just that to your body.

All innuendo and jokes aside, the movie tries to be classy when it comes to its depiction of erotic, while still showing off as much of her body (and some other women obviously) ... there is more music laid over it and less moaning, if that plays a particular role for you. But the movie also has Meg Foster and Jeffrey Dean Morgan ... I had no idea who they were when I watched it back in the day. Though I assume Dean Morgan wasn't too big of a star back then (certainly not as much as he is nowadays).

The softcore approach of it has to be something you like, if you are into women that do have some nice ... chest area you will be more than satisfied too. Oh and of course there is the story - I mean the culprit ... and the crimes. Well you need some excuse for the characters to be doing stuff - have fun in guessing who is who - acting wise this really won't have any satisfactory ... highlights if you forgive my pun.

Not really for intellectuals, but instead a mixture of detective story, softcore sex and humour (the latter being sparsely dosed but nicely done). A lot of girls, but really mainly a vehicle for Athena Massey, whose beautiful body is shown to around 98% on various occasions, and who also has a way with deadpan humour. Anyone who hasn't yet seen it should catch up on this amusing 93 minute-film, which stops (if only just) short of full frontal nudity but was apparently still considered worthy of the US "R"-rating. My DVD had a crystal clear picture with fine colours, which more than made up for the cost-conscious props and locations.