Voyeur (1999) User Reviews

Shallow and Absurd Pretext for Erotic Situations

[claudio_carvalho · 3/10 · 1 July 2007]

Andy (Jack Maxwell) works in the night-shift making copies of videotape. His best friend Lou (Ben Evans) got the job for him, and asks Andy to make nine copies of a porn video. Andy becomes obsessed by the star, affecting his personal life with his girlfriend Kris Foster (Sage Kirkpatrick). When Andy incidentally meets the woman, she tells that she is Gina Porter (Shauna O'Brien), the daughter of a senator, and she had been drugged and videotaped and later blackmailed by the powerful Melrose (John Sardakis). Andy gets involved with the situation, and when he meets Melrose, he listens to a different version of the story, becoming confused.

"Voyeur" is a shallow and absurd pretext for erotic situations. The story is awful and unbelievable, and the film only worth to be watched because of the bodies of Shauna O'Brien, Lorissa McComas and Sage Kirkpatrick. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Voyeur"

the actors are just not up to what is required of them clothed

[christopher-underwood · 4/10 · 17 January 2007]

Lots of flesh and lots of twists and turns but what might have been another 8MM with a bit more sex action, is just too obsessed with the soft core content. In fact this convoluted tale of corruption and video blackmail would have been more successful as a sex film with some storyline rather than a pretentious and ludicrous tale with lots of sex. It's all fine to look at but the actors are just not up to what is required of them clothed even without all the twists. One more problem is that everything hinges on the nastiness of the tape content and without our getting any sight of this the movie loses any bite it might have had.

The quintessential 90's film

[deeznuts-2 · 11 September 1999]

Voyeur, with tongue firmly in cheek, succesfully plays on the conventions of modern society. However, this is not merely a simple spoof of the genre (as some have suggested), but a serious social commentary as well. Lorissa McComas continues to shine, making one wonder why she is consistantly passed up for more prominant films. Undoubtedly, Voyeur is the defining film for our generation.