Bolero (1984)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

A lot of fun.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

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.

To begin with it should be said that this movie is not THAT bad, it has qualities; personally I think peoples need to watch it in order to make themselves an idea... As far as I'm concerned I don't know why but I stopped watching in the middle... Maybe in the 80s in a time where pornography was uncommon this picture and the basic story behind it would have been considered hard but today we see beautiful bodies and eroticism everywhere on TV in prime-time, this movie had no chances of surviving the years... In my opinion the problem is not actress Bo Derek but the little flaws present here and there; at the end there's so many that it makes the movies hard to follow and we tend to not take it seriously... Overall it look like a film made by an amateur; the heart is there but it really lack professionalism everywhere except the acting by Bo Derek...

I have read quite a few reviews and almost everybody discarded it distastefully saying that it is one of the worst movies ever made. I agree that Bo is weak as far as acting is concerned but the film is OK guys. You certainly get entertained.I think the issue of rating prior to its release was the main factor for all these reviews as majority of the audiences saw this film with predetermined expectations. They thought the film would be a hardcore film but actually it is not. It is a plain drama in which the director conveys the importance of finding the correct partner.as far Bo is concerned, forget about her acting but she is breathtaking with clothes as well without them.I enjoyed it certainly and most of you should if you watch it as a drama and not as a XXX film

This is one of the silliest and dumbest movies I have ever seen. It truly deserves all the Razzies that it has won or been nominated for. You might like this movie if you are a fan of Bo Derek and if you put your brain to sleep with alcohol or something.It has no plot to speak of and Bo scarcely loses any opportunity to show off her beautiful body. Frankly, that is the only thing worth watching in this movie(although the love-making scene was a bit too long and boring). From the very beginning of the movie Lida (Bo Derek) is obsessed with the idea of losing her virginity in some exotic land, to a sheik or something and the rest of the movie is basically how she goes about doing that. Movies cannot get much shallower than this.

The Dereks' nadir is this gloriously misconceived, stultifyingly boring (and meaninglessly-titled) erotic adventure – a multiple Razzie award winner and justly considered one of the worst films of all time! Bo's naivete in sexual matters at least demonstrates a consistency within her husband's work as a director: in all three films I've watched by him (and featuring her) – the others being FANTASIES (1981; see above) and TARZAN, THE APE MAN (1981) – she's supposedly a virgin! Bo's a spoilt rich girl (her first impulse after graduating is to strip naked on the university campus!) who wants to give herself to a man in a big way – infatuated with Rudolph Valentino, she travels to the desert in search of a sheik; when this doesn't work (under the influence of opium, he goes to sleep on her!), she sets her sights on toreador Andrea Occhipinti. Accompanying her in her sexual odyssey is beefy chauffeur George Kennedy (who looks properly embarrassed throughout) and her best friend, Ana Obregon – the latter yearns for a similar whirlwind romance but keeps any serious attachment at bay…that is, until Derek's kilt-wearing solicitor comes into her life! Needless to say, Occhipinti is a veritable stud who has a penchant for making lifelong bedfellows of gypsy-girls; his current lover is, naturally, jealous of Bo but another hopeful – teenager Olivia d'Abo – befriends her and establishes herself in Bo's sumptuous hacienda. At one point, the jilted sheik turns up in his aeroplane and kidnaps Bo – who promptly leaps out in mid-air to rejoin her true love! Eventually, Occhipinti is gored in the arena – and Bo determines to render him back his manhood, first by practicing bullfighting herself(?!) and then through more obvious means (leading to a stylized finale at the accomplishment of the miracle).The sex scenes are fairly explicit – including one in which the sheik licks a mixture of milk and honey off of Derek's throbbing bare chest!; even so, the most unintentionally comical bits involve the characters' predilection for showing their approval of something by giving it the thumbs up and, especially, Obregon stumbling in one scene – an accident the director perhaps thought of leaving in for the sake of spontaneity…which, therefore, likens him not merely to Ed Wood (see my comments on FANTASIES) but Jess Franco as well!