No Witness

OK. I agree, this is a lousy picture, with corny actors and directing. A movie made for DVD releasing. Nothing more. I have never heard of any of the actors, except Jeff Fahey. This guy played in a bunch of films of this kind. His best character was in Clint Eastwood's WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART, in 1989. But after that, he drowned in lousy pictures.

Back to NO WITNESS, what I love is the topic. In this tale, there is no heroes, no lead, no good vs bad scheme, as we have already seen 178 millions times before. Only disgusting characters, except the girl one. Everything is surprising, no ethics. I love this.

But, I repeat, this is a very bad movie. During the 90's, in France, we always saw this kind of crap, Saturday evenings, on TFI Channel, in Hollywood NIGHTS series. Forgettable movies made for VHS releasing, but seldom very interesting, with unusual topics. As this one.

Sometimes you watch a film and wonder how it was ever made. In this case, this film was made to feed the ego of its "star," radio DJ Steve Barnes. He plays some sort of robot that kills people. The other actors are barely D list talent that do their best to stumble through an extremely poorly written script. The plot has enough holes to drive several Hummers through. The lighting looks like it was done with flashlights. I don't know who actually shot it, but it looks horrible. I can't tell if it was shot on film, DV, or VHS. I think most high school A/V clubs could put together a more professional film. I am amazed that it has been released on DVD. It makes you wonder if there is a factory on Asia somewhere that makes the DVDs, and if the workers there watched it and laughed. Let's hope the people involved in the making of this motion picture never attempt such an exercise again.

I watched No Witness and was amazed by musical numbers, it puts to shame "Singing in the Rain" (look it up on IMDb, watch it and see the similarities). Better than any Elvis movie with catchy beats you will not stop humming after leaving the theatres. This was better than Chicago and should have gotten an award for musicals. Steve Barnes' acting was part Gene Kelly, part Lawrence Olivier with his gripping, passionate performance. Many in the audience were moved to tears while laughing due to his performance, or maybe it was laughing while crying, I wasn't sure as my eyes were glued to the screen, hanging on his every, dynamically charged, words. Corey Feldman sure has come a long way since Lost Boys, No Witness is sure to put him on the map as a premiere talent. Michael Damian also uses his vocal chops showing his remake of the hit "Rock On" from the 80s was no fluke, this guy is the real deal and almost stole the singing numbers from Barnes. Don't just walk, but run out to rent this blockbuster of entertainment, it has it all!

i've seen much worse, but this could have been much better. i'm not just saying that 'cos i met 2 of the stars (i guess Corey wasn't available). i agree that the lighting director needed fresh Duracells or perhaps more matches. writing could have been tighter. i liked being able to pick out where it was shot. had this been done a few years back, i would hope they used the gold club. not enough naked girls! there's never too much of that. sorry. there should have been more L5P! znn? i thought that was only for episodes of "jag" and "ncis". one HUGE problem i had - the one very obviously "shot on video" scene of the airtran jet taking off.

Hi All.

I had the odd opportunity to watch "No Witness". I cannot remember how the film came into play but there is was at a group gathering and we began watching it. Might I say, the film was beyond malicious to watch. The best part and only high light of the entire movie was played by the actress (Nikki Buggs) who played a feisty "In-your-face" waitress who manages to keep little Corey Feldman(Lead actor)in his place. The other main lead actor was Steve Barnes who was absolutely undeniably gut-winchingly appalling! If he was any more boring and ridged, one could take him out to the beach and use him as a surfing board. Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! Per a few friends watching the film with me, we all agreed, it would do Barnes better to stay behind the microphone.

I am sure the rest of the actors are great actors. It is a shame they had to work on such a terrible film. Hopefully, this mistake will not ruin the rest of their careers.

Wow!