Best movie of this year hands down!

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

Sorry, this movie sucks

Powerful

Again, here's one of those erotic flicks set in Rio (one of the most beautiful cities in the world, an asset to it) about the awakenings and sexual discovery of a young, reserved and beautiful girl, and promising lawyer, played almost adequately by Otis. Rourke, wasted here, as a self made millionaire, has his own demons where at the end of it, you're so happy the two of these wound up together, by unleashing their inhibitions. Wild Orchid rides on style and offbeat characters with interesting and impeccably chosen careers, as from the writers point of view. We have a number of occasional and drawn out, erotically charged sex scenes, (two ring out in my mind, one in limo) but in the end as in Kings other films, although I haven't seen Two Moon Junction, Wild Orchid doesn't add up to much. Bisset as Otis's employer/educator is also wasted. Rourke's mystifying character is fun to watch, as well as hearing some of his dialogue, when confiding in Otis about his childhood.

I was just spanning through a series of different movie reviews here on IMDb and was going to check the reviews for The Wrestler. I clicked on Mickey Rourke's name to see what else he had done in movies (I'd heard his name since I was a teen but wasn't familiar with his work). The the title Wild Orchid came up and it looked familiar.Then it hit me! "Wait a second...I saw this in 1990 at a $1 theatre!" I then recalled after awhile that I had seen ads for it on TV and had wanted to see it but until the cheap theatre,I didn't go.Now,I was 21 at the time and knowing what was "supposed" to be in the film,I couldn't wait to "see it all". Needless to say I was quickly let down. I couldn't follow whatever the plot was supposed to be and found the dialouge just downright tedious and beyond boring.As for the actual sex scenes? Probably I got into that at the time (you find few 21 year olds who wouldn't). I couldn't tell you right now if they were worth watching or not,it's been nearly 20 years.I know I stayed to the end though,like I always do because when I pay for a movie,I see the whole thing,no matter how lame it is. I had every reason to walk out but since it was just a buck,it wouldn't have been worth the effort. Maybe the people behind this thought that since it's geared twords sex,they had to make little effort in story writing. It's no wonder it escaped my memory until I saw it here on IMDb. (02/03/2016) Edit : I found it on VHS,bought it and gave it A look. It's still as forgettable as it was then.

MovieAddict2009 probably has the best review for enthusiasts of this kind of film. Think high-budget soft-core passed off for mainstream entertainment. Oh well. Somebody had to do it.On a more serious note, the other reason this movie is so half-brained is the Mickey Rourke character. He's a good-looking, egotistical, to- clever-for-his-own-good, jerk who likes to toy with people because he can. He's used his traits to make himself a financial success and a man of mystery, only there's no real mystery to his character. He just likes being an aloof and detached idiot to satiate his own ego.Otis's character sums him up in the end, but it's such a long drawn out (and sex filled) affair that the coupling in the end hardly makes up for an emotionally vapid male character. That's what makes movies interesting. Yeah, sure, the sex scenes were titillating back then to those of us who didn't make a habit of watching these types of films, but, beyond that, there's not much else here.There's some sumptuous cinematography, some interesting music and sound effects trying to convey to us a sense of sensuousness and eroticism, but it's really all for naught. Without a bit more on why the James Wheeler character is who he is, we might as well have watched "Debbie does Dallas" or any of the other adult film offerings around at the time.The reason we have no insight into Wheeler, and the reason this isn't a better film (in spite of all the positive technical elements), is because Wheeler is not someone deserving of sympathy. His lack of romance is self inflicted because he thinks he can out think people and be clever to get what he wants. But even this doesn't come across very well in the film. He explains it in a bit of dialogue, but ... so what? Did he do it as a cheap thrill? Answer; yes.He's not hiding a deep family secret. He's not struggling with some inner turmoil. He's not trying to forget a bad romance. He's not coming to grips with any deep personal angst. No. He's just being a twit. What he really could've used was a right-cross to the chin to knock him on his backside. Now that's a movie!As an audience our reaction should be thus; "Wow, mister Wheeler. You're a real jerk, you know that?" But instead we find ourselves getting sucked into the icing on the cake, and ignoring the sweet inner bread portions of said cake. Yet, when all is said and done, we understand that we've been short changed, and it's no fault of the director. Heck, you can't even blame the screenwriter, assuming he based the script off of a real person.The one person to blame for this films fallen arches is the real person upon whom the James Wheeler is based.Beyond that, if you want to see sex, well, the nets filled with so called adult websites.

It's amazing how the entire culture of a country can be so poorly depicted. As a Brazilian I'm very disgusted with this film; it depicts Brazil as if it was the United States' nude beach, or even worse, whore-house. It is filled with stereotypes about Brazilian society views towards sex and nudity. I will not list all the factual errors about Brazilian society because I don't have enough time, but here are the ones that hurts most my "brazilianity"... The bar where the character of Mickey Rourke takes the character of Carré Otis plays African music and the hostess greets them speaking Portguese as if she was from Portugal. Carnival celebrations in Rio doesn't happen everyday, and not in open places like beaches since God knows when, and they don't feature Latin music so often. There are major differences between Bahia (which features trio elétricos on the streets) and Rio (the one with the "samba schools" and the sambódromo) carnival celebrations. Where are all the cops of Rio? The city is filled with them in times of carnival (specially because it's the time when the city welcomes more tourists than usual). Nudity and sex - specially by females - are much less tolerated in a machista society like the Brazilian... Brazil has strict laws concerning public nudity, and who don't respect them actually go to jail... But I guess none of this matters in a semi-pornographic motion picture with decadent stars. This movie only "improves" the international image of Brazil as the place where people from the first world come to promote their orgy balls.P.S.: The only good thing of this film which I can think about is that it revealed the talent of axé queen Margareth Menezes to the rest of the world.