The music video, directed by
Godley & Creme (who directed the videos for "Every Breath You Take" and "Synchronicity II"), furthers the ethereal feeling the song gives off, by having footage of the band performing in a
candle-lit, gloomy room, interspersed with scenes of Sting running among tall
candlesticks arranged in a sort of
maze; in the end, he intentionally knocks all of them down. Andy Summers is shown playing a
classical guitar, an instrument not used in any of the Police's recordings. The music on the recording of the video was played fast and the "singing" was mimed fast. When the music was slowed down to normal speed, the members of the band appear to be moving in slow motion. Drummer Stewart Copeland claimed that he used a similar method for a solo video (performing under the alias of "Klark Kent"), only he "had the music run slowly, so that [he] mimed in slow motion, and then when they synched it up to the music, [he] had this herky-jerky, kinda 'fast-mo' movement, that was still in time with the music, only it was sort of jerky and strange body movements." Sting praised the video, saying: Andy Summers, however, was critical of Sting's overacting in the video. In a promotional video
tied in with the release of
The Muppets Take Manhattan, "I'm Gonna Always Love You" from the movie featured lead vocals by
Miss Piggy and had her imitating parts of the "candle labyrinth" from the Police video. ==Critical reception==