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Pluskylang Great Film overall

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

chokingmessiah This is one of the most under-rated and cool films of the 1980's. Richard Gere is phenomenal as Jesse, a petty criminal living in fantasy land, a young man obsessed with the Silver Surfer and dreaming of Mexico- not to mention he's head-over-heels in love with a French beauty named Monica who's played by Valerie Kaprisky. Their love/hate relationship brings out the best and worst in them both, propelling the couple down unexpected paths with dramatic results. There seemed to be some off-screen chemistry going on too, because Richard and Valerie are magnetic on the screen. I'll leave the rest up to you. 10/10 Director Jim McBride and Cinematographer Richard H. Kline bring out an explosive aesthetic which will resonate and explode in the 1990's with films like True Romance and Pulp Fiction. A marker of what's to come, I recommend this film to those who love comic books, rockabilly, petty crime, eccentric characters, and romantic tragedies. Check it out!

PeterMitchell-506-564364 A lot of people I know, disfavored this movie. Only recently I got another bad vote from someone about it. I was so hanging out to see this movie when I was 13. I loved it again and again and again. It's Gere's hyper kinetic energy of a performance that makes it work. He's a car thief, who at the start, departs Vegas, heading to L.A via some ill fortune that sees him accidentally kill a cop. How his gun went off, completely taking out the windscreen, before taking out the cop, I couldn't figure. Jerry Lee Lewis fan that Jessie (Gere) he also a Silver Surfer comic fan, one scene having him and a teen argue over the Silver's Surfer's character I found surreal, but totally unrealistic. Gere's going to L.A to see his one true love, Monica, Valerie Kaprisky, who thank god has her looks working for her here. He's fixated on her. Angry at his intrusion, especially on the campus, a scene I loved, she becomes confused, her future plans. turned upside by this hunk, where finally she has to choose. Breathless is shot in loud color which would of looked great on the cinema screen. The pool scene, especially was a well shot scene. And when the authorities move in, Gere narrowly missing them at a bank when visiting an acquaintance, the drama and action become more pumped up, more serious, with Kaprisky running away with Gere, where inevitably in it's classic of classic ending, Gere's fate is only as we could of imagined. There are many classic moments in Breathless, and it is funny in a few areas, thanks to our lead, but you can take this movie for what it is, popcorn entertainment, and those ill favored critics, this is one flick I favor highly, no matter how many times I watch it. Gere's exploits will leave you breathless as well as bloody exhausted. He really is too much, in a movie you just can't get enough.

Cindy Reynolds I love the character Gere portrayed so flawlessly - Jesse's sheer intensity is a joy to behold. I really enjoyed the music throughout the film also, and the way it captures the varying moods so well. Kaprisky does a good job with her character as well - the exotic Frenchwoman Monica, torn between her plans for her life and her moth-to-the-flame attraction to the exuberant, unstoppable Jesse. This film has just had a run on EPIX on demand and I must have seen it six or seven times - it's one of my all-time favorites: those few, special films that, although I can almost speak the dialogue in unison with the characters, are still the ones I reach for and watch again and again.

naomiengland Picture 1992, a 12 year old girl reading British Vouge they talking about steaming love seances and they mentioned this movie. x-mas 1992. The play Breathless on BBC2. I watch it and this started by love of Richard Gere. Richard plays a street punk Jesse, that shots a cop. Jesse flees to be with a Fench lady hes in love with. Jesse breaks into Monica's flat and showers the part of this movie he shows his penis.!!! Breathless shows the hardship a street punk, thats madly in love with a normal French lady that has goals in life. After they have sex, Monica turns away and she knows she messing with her good life for a street punk."Jesse I don't know what you want from me. I love you but I don't want to love you, you don't fit into my plans in my life". Monica is torn from her job and wasteing it with Jesse.If you haven't seen Breathless I won't say more,even not likening Richard Gere. Watch Breathless this underrated movie. I do cry at the end evey bloody time. I am now 30, I would say I have seen Breathless 20 or 30 times.