Richard Gere is perfect in this but the film itself is not the best of the director. Pure 80s culture. Bet you forever remember Blondie's "Call me" after seeing this...

Richard Gere is the man to call for pleasure Here he plays a gigolo Julian that’s mastered the art of seducing women He doesn’t ask for much in return just the proper payment to make them feel alive again Most notably he serves to please a woman named Anne But his life is rear ended when he’s suddenly accused of murder Julian claims he’s innocent It takes 40 min for the actual plot to kick off and this has a lot of silent moments It gets less exciting as it goes along and Anne disappears for the rest of the running time

Richard Gere is great in this. He manages to be completely unlikeable and insanely charismatic at the same time which is no small feat. It's very apparent that we were dealing with and watching a bona fide movie star. A movie star that can also happen to act his ass off. The rest of the film not so amazing. Not anywhere near Paul Schrader's best work.

the story itself is uninteresting except its title.

This movie was awesome i loved it i'll give it 5 stars.

There are four or five different versions of Blondie's 'Call Me' in this film, I'm pretty sure one was played on a pipe organ in a Gothic cathedral for some reason. For a movie that established Richard Gere as a leading man and a sex symbol of the '80s, American Gigolo feels strangely detached. It's a bit more of a daring design than erotic thrillers had been willing to entertain before, with Gere (unsurprisingly) playing a gigolo to a group of scandalous older women, and even male nudity from its protagonist. But it just doesn't convey that shocking edge of the erotic angle, though it does deliver a bit of the paranoia that defined the decade prior with the films of Alan J. Pakula, albeit stretched thin across a noir framework. It's got style but doesn't make your pulse pick up either with the sex or with the murder. Gere always portrays relatively muted characters and this is no different; a bit of animation in the small moments, instead of the emotional outbursts on paper, would have picked the film up quite a bit as he frantically runs around trying to piece together a frame-up job in the seedy underbelly of sex work. Instead, if there's a standout performance it's Bill Duke as a calm pimp, someone who knows more than he lets on. Slow-burn thrillers can work, but American Gigolo doesn't have enough suspense to keep the atmosphere thick and heavy. (3/5)

I like Richard Gere a lot but there isn't a lot here.

Surpreende positivamente, com essa tradução pensei se tratar de uma comédia – pastelão, ledo engano, um suspense dramático, que debatem inclusive o prazer feminino na terceira idade, Richard Gere lindo, perfeito, no auge da sua forma física, interessante como desde novinho e apesar de gostoso, eu já o via como um senhor de meia-idade... Uma boa trama, simples, conveniente e envolvente...

The worst 01 hour: and 57 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way too slow. The crime was too complicated to even make sense. The acting was great.

Considered shocking when first released because of Gere doing brief male frontal nudity. When watching today, the movie seems tame compared to the over abundance of simulated sex now on 온라인카지노추천. I was more shocked by the number of times homophobic slurs were used. Glad that has improved over the decades. The movie actually did hold my interest and was more entertaining than many of the current movies.

A young Richard Gere plays Richard Gere, or Julian, a male escort if you prefer, who is framed for the murder of an ex-client. So far, so Gere. Desperate to clear his name, he's in a spot of bother with no strong alibi, and must enlist the help of Michelle; a women he has recently fallen for. Unfortunately for Julian, she also happens to be the wife of a state senator. Director Paul Schrader is probably better known for his writing credits (Taxi Driver [1976] and Raging Bull [1980] to name but two) but he pulls off an enjoyable neo-noir thriller here; there are shades of Basic Instinct (1992) as well as other Gere romps, most notably Internal Affairs (1990). It's a script that you could also imagine Harrison Ford or Michael Douglas playing the lead role in, but that does a disservice to Gere. He's a fine actor, and pulls off Julian with aplomb in one of his earliest roles. Schrader doesn't pull punches, Gere is at the scene of the murder several hours previously, asked to have consensual sado-masochistic sex with the victim by her husband as part of his controversial job. It doesn't take a genius to work out where the film is headed in terms of who's setting Julian up, but his relationship with Michelle (a solid turn from Lauren Hutton) is thoroughly believable, and at the end of the film, without giving too much away, you certainly aren't rolling your eyes in a disgusted fashion. Well I wasn't anyway.

Awful and with the worst ending of any film.

you have to have a lot of patience for this movie as it drags on, pretty uninteresting

Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a male escort in Los Angeles, whose job is to sell his body to upper-class women. His job supports and requires an expensive taste in cars and clothes and affords him a luxury Westwood apartment. He is blatantly materialistic, narcissistic and superficial. He takes pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women, offering and selling his body to women. Julian's procurer, Anne, sends him on an assignment with a wealthy old widow, Mrs. Dobrun, who is visiting town. Afterwards, he goes to the hotel bar and meets Michelle Stratton (Lauren Hutton), a California state senator's wife, who becomes obsessed with him. Julian's friend Leon (Bill Duke) sends him to Palm Springs on a "substitute" assignment to the house of Mr. Rheiman, a wealthy financier. Rheiman asks Julian to have sado-masochistic sex with his wife Judy while he is watching them. The next day, Julian berates Leon for sending him to a "rough trick" and makes it clear he declines kinky or gay assignments. Leon warns Julian that the wealthy, older women he serves will turn on him and discard him without a second thought. As Julian begins to have a relationship with Michelle, he learns that Judy Rheiman has been murdered. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sunday identifies Julian as the prime suspect. Though Julian was with Lisa Williams, another client, on the night of the murder, she protects her marriage by not providing an alibi for Julian... Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing, "The whole movie has a winning sadness about it; take away the story's sensational aspects and what you have is a study in loneliness." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune also awarded 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it "an honest, compelling drama that sheds a little light in some beguilingly dark places." Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote in a negative review that writer-director Schrader "is awfully good at establishing inarticulate, unknowing, self-deluding characters, but he's much less effective when it comes to shepherding these characters through the contingencies of the melodrama that is supposed to ennoble them or, at least, to reveal their unsuspected moral resources." Variety faulted the film for an "evasiveness at its core," finding a "moral and emotional ambivalence" in Gere's character "which makes caring about his predicament and ultimate fate difficult." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times was also negative, calling the film "such an improbable tissue of fantasies and dime-novel borrowings that from moment to moment it seems to be making fun of itself, although the joke is disguised perfectly." Roger Angell of The New Yorker wrote that the film "presents a humorless, Penthouse kind of sex, all dolled up with expensive 'real' settings, foreign cars, hi-fi sets, and designer clothes, but barely alive at its glum, soft core." Paul Schrader´s slowpaced slick neo-noir crime drama suffers from wobbly and silly dialogue, wobbly editing and wobbly acting at times. Richard Gere is solid in his breakthrough role as Julian, but the rest of the film is really nothing special to be honest. The best part is Blondie´s "Call Me" which became a massive hit and went to No #1 in both the UK and USA, staying at the top of the latter chart for six weeks. The rest of "American Gigolo" is actually forgettable. I remember it being much better than it was now when I re-saw it. Or it simply hasn´t aged very well.

A fairly interesting character study, but Richard Gere plays it soo cold, I couldn't care less for him or his plight.

this movie is pretty political, the real or alternate plot is about a bisexual male prostitute, who is a quasi-fascist or right wing nutter that worship materialism. as he offers bdsm to clients he is chosen by a right wing politician to end the campaign of a kennedy type politician, so he goes to seduce and hit his wife to open press smearing but he find her dead as a setup with corrupt police involved. he them faces the rejection from all his right wing environment, and ends in jail alone where he loses all confidence and commits suicide or is killed inside jail to silence him.

Was very soft the way telling the story about his seeking for love, but I think it was so boring sometimes because some speech it's too loooong

One of the most stylish movie. That's all I want to say. Armani on top. Richard looks amazing.

Kinda slow seedy but interesting murder mystery. The issue is all the people involved are kinda scumbags so what is brought on to them they kinda deserve. Still an interesting movie.