Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

merelyaninnuendo Risky BusinessThe sense of urgency and the thrill fades away quickly before the scrutiny even hits the screen where the stakes aren't high enough as the writers anticipated; a better build up would have been adequate. Paul Brickman; the writer-director, attempts to seek in on and communicate easily with audience by approaching through something that one can easily resemble which was a smart move but unfortunately wasn't taken care of throughout the course of it. Tom Cruise is brilliant and compelling as a teenager and carries it off all in its shoulder with head held high. Risky Business is not your typical teenage movie which is true up till certain point after which it turns out to be the same repetitive slog.

h-76546 This movie really had an impact on me. With a combination of talented actors, an interesting and relatable plot, and a kick-ass soundtrack, the movie creates an interesting feel and atmosphere. Risky Business' famous singing scenes and the actions and decisions that Joel Goodson undertakes (which i won't mention for fear of spoilers), can be relatable to any high school students ( particularly male in some scenes but maybe i'm being too assumptive). The performance of Cruise was excellent and very natural in his character. Like all good performances, you forget that the actor is acting. Also very interesting to see him playing a young student in the 1980's which totally contrasts to the action blockbuster movie making actor we depict him as nowadays. As well as that i must mention the beautiful Rebecca De Mornay who shines also in Risky Business. Her and Cruise's love story is not your typical run of the mill love story and their on-screen chemistry is believable and exciting to watch. I would advocate this film to anyone to watch. Its interest, thought provoking and certain scenes really broadened my mind. Its excellent.

MisterWhiplash It may be difficult for some, and for the younger ones the context is not there, but do you remember when Tom Cruise really gave a full PERFORMANCE? By this I mean in a movie where he had to play at a full range of emotions and explore a character who has to face real obstacles and has an arc that takes him on a journey from one place in his life to another - in this case the "coming of age" story, perhaps some pun intended- but one that didn't require him to run away from explosions or kill people (I won't say he doesn't run at all in this movie, though here it's for things like making sure he's not late to school)? This is one of them, the one that made him a star, and it's clear to see why as we see him as Joel start out in a rather simple position - a teenager with girls on his mind (or, more accurately, sex) but with some neuroses and doubts - and through some decisions involving the idea of "hey, f*** it" gets in way over his head.Risky Business is the kind of film that might not be able to get made today; imagine a studio exec hearing a pitch that involved a teenager getting a call girl, let alone setting up basically a (brief) brothel out of his house, to pay off some very bad luck moments and decisions he gets in to with the Rebecca Demornay character (and Joe Pantoliano, what a great heel he gets to play the hell out of! every moment's a delight that he's on screen). It probably would be laughed off, or told it wouldn't make much money. I'm glad someone took a chance on it at the time, since it holds up today. For the most part. As long as you meet it halfway, which isn't too hard. Indeed Brickman's tone as a filmmaker is to make things feel rather serious and grounded in the style so that when their is humor, and there's a lot, it comes out of awkward tension and behavior.It has a constantly fascinating mix of comedy and drama not unlike The Graduate. No, it's not in that league, but Brickman swings for the fences as far as depicting as honestly as he can under the circumstances he sets up for himself (which are a little just pre-John Hughes world, it IS Illinois by the way so the milieu is somewhat the same). You feel the struggle that Joel has, and hope that he can get out of his predicament, though at the same time he keeps getting into more precarious waters. It's relatable, especially if anyone ever got into just a little trouble as a younger person, which I assume are most of you. It's simply that Risky Business takes things further and further along.And it's sexy. Boy is it a sexy looking, sounding (Tangerine Dream's score is wonderful), and acted and performed. But it also finds the humor in sex too, how absurd it is to suddenly see about a dozen beautiful women come through a door, one by one. So if you want to see a studio dramedy that takes chances with an early Tom Cruise performance where he's acting his ass off, this is one. You have to suspend your disbelief, such as for how things like money transactions with prostitutes actually work and how it seems like ALL of the male high schoolers and ALL the attractive call girls just happen to be around and willing to go for it over one night), but as the film plays you really don't question things too much and can go with the fun and real *stakes* that this very R-rated story has.It's comical, thrilling, and it takes genuinely surprising turns that come naturally from plants and payoffs in the story. Risky Business is not at all what I expected, which was just some goofy and dopey teen comedy (the iconic, yes, iconic, shot of Tom Cruise in the underwear doing the first lip-sync battle with no one to Bob Seger was all I really knew about it), and what I got is a movie for adults that happens to have teenagers as the main characters.

JÄnis Locis Definitely an interesting movie, a guy goes from just wanting to have sex with a hooker for the first time to creating a massive one-night whore house making 8000 dollars a night, just because of his troubles of living alone without parents for a couple of days. Some people can say the movie lacked funny parts, which is completely false, a movie like ''Risky Business'' doesn't need to be saturated with laughable scenes, it has other great qualities to it.The movie had very little character involvement, but Tom Cruise(Joel), completely carried the movie by himself here, so there wasn't a need for multiple interesting characters in this movie. Without a doubt this has to be one of the best movies for Tom Cruise, he had a well rounded, interesting character, that was kind of easy to relate to emotionally.''Risky Business'' had some memorable and even iconic moments, which gives a movie this good vibe of never really getting old, for example Joel's dance at the beginning of the film has inspired many other film makers to implement that slide out Joel performed in their movies, when it come to a musical part.