Half Moon Street may have innocently and intentionally aspired to be a great compelling and well-rounded suspenseful and intriguing noir adaptation thriller, (Whoo, take a second to breathe... It basically is) but it incidentally and inevitably hurriedly became an all out sexy tribute to Sigourney Weaver. This incredible leading lady plays one incredible leading lady. Sigourney Weaver looks so hot in this movie when her clothes are on or off. (I like them off.) The nudity from Half Moon Street is outstanding, and Sigourney makes it way better than you can handle. The particular nude scene when Sigourney is cycling topless and working out on the exercise bike and then she's naked and into the shower to rinse off is (please finish this sentence!). And with all due respect to all of the things all going on around Sigourney's beautiful lead, very nice. Sigourney Weaver is something special, I mean that. She is the most beautiful woman that I have ever met in my life. Well I mean, we haven't ever actually met like really met met in real life, person to person, face to face, (cheek to cheek), but it feels like it. (I love you, Sigourney Weaver!! You look good.) Sigourney's beauty and attractiveness is not only skin deep. My word, who is this handsome and curious looking fellow whom keeps appearing and reappearing alongside Miss Weaver from time to time credited to the name of Michael Caine? Michael Caine? Never heard of him. He looks miserable. The super pretty Sigourney Weaver makes Half Moon Street so so good. On second thought, maybe this Michael Caine guy ain't so bad. And lastly, at one point in Half Moon Street, Dr. Lauren Slaughter seducingly remarks ''I'll dazzle him with my with wit'', um, Sigourney, (Uhm hum, uhm hum), you dazzle me with your wit (and your beauty!). I love her hair in this movie.

So I'm looking for an oldie to watch on a boring afternoon. I ran into this one on YouTube and since I like Michael Cain I decided to give it a go. I wish I'd given it a miss, instead.The film is nothing to write home about. But it's Sigourney Weaver's character that annoyed me beyond endurance. She plays Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a super intelligent, witty, educated woman, who is a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London, and who decides to go into prostitution to fight boredom and make ends meet. At first you think she's honest and pragmatic about it. She's bored with her job, she needs the money, she turns tricks for an escort agency. That I could have respected, if that's the word I want.Instead, she treats us to an endlessly snarly, hackneyed, pseudo- feminist attitude, which is painful to watch. She eschews makeup and nice clothes (her wits are enough to dazzle clients), and spouts commonplace, moral drivel to her "employers" and all her dates, as if to say, 'Look, I'm still intelligent, educated; and I'm a liberated woman, too, not an object.' It's not prostitution if you want to do it, you see. Men will respect you in the morning. Seriously? You're still turning tricks for money, dear. Men still pay to use your body. You won't understand my complaint if you are a man, or if you are a modern-day feminist (all the latter understand is 'You don't criticize women. Ever.' And they think that's enough to make them good feminists). But I was annoyed and bored to half to death.And in the end, in spite of all her intelligence, education, smart-as-a-whip comebacks ... Dr. Slaughter still gets conned, big time. Aww.

Pair perhaps the most obnoxious character in the history of movies (insulting, insufferably conceited, insistent on baring her near-anorexic body to everyone including landlord on a routine basis, incapable of human warmth, bossy, foul-mouthed, promiscuous, raunchy) ---- with a purportedly famous, successful, warm man who may soon be a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize - and what do you get?One of the worst movies I've ever seen. **** SPOILERS **** Little makes sense here as contradictions just fly - e.g., we hear that the man cannot go out with anyone other than prostitutes because he hasn't the time - and then watch him attend plays, go to the country for weekends, attend dog racing, and lie at home, bored with nothing to do.e.g., we hear the man say that the notion of security risk from sexual blackmail ceased to exist forty years before - so he has no problem inviting a prostitute repeatedly to his home - and then we hear him say that he cannot visit the upscale neighborhood in which the prostitute lives because it would be a security risk.e.g., we hear that the entire virtue of escort services is to assure sex to the busy man on the go. And then we see the prostitute arrogate to herself whether or not to have sex - and repeatedly refuse sex to men who have paid rather a lot for the presumed reliability. Nevertheless, we are told (unconvincingly) that the physically unattractive prostitute has become popular. e.g., we are told repeatedly of the charm of the prostitue - but she is as coarse as anyone the viewer has ever seen, deeply insulting to all.e.g., we are told of the astounding background in Middle Eastern affairs held by the prostitute - so why was she living in China "doing field work"?e.g., we are told of the social panache of the prostitute - yet she turns up at a posh country house wearing completely the wrong clothes.e.g., we are told that the reason the American woman is poverty-stricken is due to her "desire to live abroad" - since when are all positions overseas barred to those with doctorates from Harvard? e.g., we are told that the man is a great statesman who has unparallelled skill in the negotiation of agreements between other countries - so why does he have a photograph of himself with a tyrant on his table at home?**** SPOILERS END **** This is a wretched movie - in which you yearn for someone to kill the pprotagonist - yet somehow they vainly try to make this wretched preening creature the subject of a romance. Avoid this movie - it's just awful.

Half Moon Street is basically an average film with some good talent in it. From the reviews this is a movie people either love or hate, but I think the elements balance each other out and the end result lands it in the middle of the film quality spectrum. Sigourney Weaver comes across totally convincingly as a Mid East scholar who becomes an escort by night to make ends meet (anyone who is a fan of hers will probably appreciate her many nude scenes!). Michael Caine also gives a good performance as an English lord trying to broker a secret Middle East peace deal. Where this film falters is in the script, which is too talky and it seems to take a long time for the story to get going. The last twenty minutes is well filmed and exciting, but there is a lot of plodding to go through before the good part arrives. Fans of Caine and/or Weaver will probably love it; for everyone else, not really a bad film, but not really great either.