No Witness

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 could not believe how sophomoric and infantile a film could be till I watched "No Witness". Did the producers of this film actually watch it prior to distribution??? This film will give even the worst films that Ed Wood ever produced a run for their money. My only thought is that perhaps this film was made by a sociopath in that he/she was under the sad arrogant delusion that they had produced something entertaining or a work of art. Hopefully the writer of this screenplay is out walking the picket lines, perpetually. My one hope is that those responsible for this film take the criticism seriously and in any subsequent efforts obtain objective opinions prior to releasing it.

I found this to be a fun movie! I assume this negativity is arising from all of the bashing that 99x radio in Atlanta did on the movie. I bought it and enjoyed it. I am happy these guys are using Atlanta to produce movies...kudos to them!! I wish more movies would be produced here by locals instead of taking all of the production to Louisiana and North Carolina. Tyler Perry is one of the few to keep it here and keep people in jobs that love and have a passion for the industry. It seems that the people posting this bitterness could find something better to do? I don't care how "bad" a movie is, if it brings work to the area. This movie is by far not an award winner but I would also not call it roadkill. It is no different than any other "straight to DVD" release I have seen. Corey Feldman was actually quite fun to watch!

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.

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.