we be introduce to a character and frank keller and that just achieve 20 year in service and that can not see really something after the retirement ( that be what he hear of a lot and about the retirement ) and that not long before he have a divorce ( one the guy from his job be now with his ex wife . frank be like we have be work together for like 6 year but we have never go for a beer yet somehow you steal my wife and and we will see frank apologize more than once with that guy ) . on the other hand we have the murder represent three murder men and similar circumstance and certainly only one murderer . the third murder be of a man we know and the expect murder and expect by frank and by another detective ( john goodman character detective sherman touhey from queen ) . this film and harold becker sea of love ( with al pacino a frank keller and ellen barkin a helen cruger and john goodman . also samuel l. jackson appear at the beginning of the film a a criminal who think he be go to meet the new york yankee but soon receive and like many other criminal and the bad news represent no yankee and only arrest . from the imdb trivia section represent the apprehension of criminal by arrange a meet the yankee breakfast be base on an actual event ) and have two part and the first one be the one i like well and the second be just about a love relationship and the whole thing with the murder be sort of just a pretext . and be typical stuff with the woman disappoint after find out that frank lie and and be predictable since you always know pacino and barkin character will end happily together ( and well the detective find out who the murderer be just out of luck ) . sea of love be an entertaining film with a first part that be simply that and a fast paced entertainment and a second part that and like i say and be predictable and with a sexy barkin and with really bad scene ( for instance take the supermarket supposedly very sexy scene and very bad music be what stand out in that part . ) . in the wikipedia page of we can read that sea of love be credit a the film that pull pacino out of his slump of film failure that occupy much of the 1980s . pacino have 5 performance in the 80 represent in cruise and author . author . and scarface and revolution and sea of love . now and i have see only de palma scarface and sea of love ( just yesterday i saw it for the very first time ) and i think pacino be just f great a tony montana and just good a frank keller and never really great and he entertain just like the film itself and certainly this performance be extremely far to be one of his best ( from the imdb biography of pacino represent it mark the second phase of pacino career and be the first to feature his now famous dark and owl eye and hoarse and gravelly voice ) . and the song and here we can hear bit of phil phillips song more than a couple of time and include a very funny interpretation by john goodman . actually the first version of the song sea of love that i ever listen be the version of the great tom wait ( my favourite ) . the original version and by phil phillips and be first release in 1959 and tom wait version in 1989 on the soundtrack of this film . but i listen wait version for the very first time just a couple or so year ago on wait late album and the 2006 orphan represent brawler and bawler and bastard and just this year thank to my mother ( she love that song as much a i love wait version ) i listen and finally and the extremely famous original ( and she listen the version of tom wait and she be like what be this . and certainly not quite her cup of tea but i do like the original ) version . the song eventually make me remember about that film of which i read positive comment some time ago and then i find out that wait version be originally release on the soundtrack of that film and pretty much it be time to finally give becker sea of love a shot . so sea of love be just light entertainment to see once and nothing that you must check out .