That was an excellent one.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A lot of people seem to miss the point about this fantastic movie. Not every film has to have a believable plot, well-written dialogue and perfect acting, etc. Those which do are fine in their own way, but it would be a dull world if they were all the same. "Bolero" needs to be judged on its own terms and according to its own objectives. Surely if you watch a movie produced by Golan and Globus (and Bo Derek!), directed and photographed by John Derek and starring Bo Derek, you know what to expect. To complain or mark it down because it delivers exactly that is just plain stupid."Bolero" achieves all that it sets out to do (and more!). It has an interesting enough storyline to keep the audience entertained between nude scenes and plenty of great nude scenes to keep us entertained between the other bits. Bo Derek's acting isn't anywhere near as bad as some people here would have us believe -- certainly way better than that of Ana Obregon and Greg Bensen. Let's face it, though: John Derek didn't cast his wife in this movie for her acting ability, or for her resemblance to a teenage virgin -- neither Mrs Derek nor Ms Obregon were even remotely believable in that respect, but that is irrelevant.Bo Derek succeeded admirably in doing what was required of her in "Bolero" -- providing us with something good to look at. She is a very attractive woman, and never looked better than she does in this movie. Even without all of the great humour (some of which may have been, as some critics suggest, unintentional), the beautiful scenes of Mrs Derek are enough to merit at least 5 stars out of ten.What makes it worth all 10 stars, for me, is not Bo Derek, lovely as she may be, but the wonderful Olivia d'Abo. Her portrayal of the young Spanish gypsy, Paloma, is incredibly funny, intriguing and gorgeous at the same time. Her nude scenes alone make this movie worth watching, especially where she stands up in the bathtub and announces proudly, "I am woman. Ready. Juicy, too!" For Ms d'Abo's performance, I would give "Bolero" 11 stars out of 10, if I could.

To begin with it should be said that this movie is not THAT bad, it has qualities; personally I think peoples need to watch it in order to make themselves an idea... As far as I'm concerned I don't know why but I stopped watching in the middle... Maybe in the 80s in a time where pornography was uncommon this picture and the basic story behind it would have been considered hard but today we see beautiful bodies and eroticism everywhere on TV in prime-time, this movie had no chances of surviving the years... In my opinion the problem is not actress Bo Derek but the little flaws present here and there; at the end there's so many that it makes the movies hard to follow and we tend to not take it seriously... Overall it look like a film made by an amateur; the heart is there but it really lack professionalism everywhere except the acting by Bo Derek...

Bo Derek and her friend, 'Catalina' (Ana Obregon) have just graduated and now they want to lose their virginity - preferably to a sheik - but they'll settle for a bullfighter and a Scotsman, respectively.The two pretty girls go to Spain to satisfy their goal accompanied by Bo's chauffeur 'Cotton' (George Kennedy). Bo tries to corral her bullfighter (Andrea Occhipinti) while fending off a jealous woman and a wild bull as Catalina is romanced by her handsome Scotsman (Ian Cochrane).Bo produced this passionately sexy film and her husband John Derek's direction is erotically beautiful.

"Bolero" and other Bo Derek movies exist for one reason: to see her naked body.In the 1930s and '40s, you watched movies to see Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, etc. for their slapstick pratfalls, puns and verbal jokes ("Who's on First", "Why a Duck", etc.). This same generation produced movies Bing Crosby singing, Gene Kelly dancing, etc. The plots were pointless, silly, escapism.In the 1980s, we had Bo Derek in a movie for one basic purpose: to see how soon, how much, and how often she would expose her body. The movies were vehicles to display her body -- THAT'S ALL!!! No plot lines, no character development, no "meaningful-ness". Think of it as cotton candy for the eyes.