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Mute Witness

Mute Witness

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: THE REAL EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT SUSPENSE THRILLER!!!
Review: MUTE WITNESS follows the classic styles of Hitchcockian-tale with nail-biting suspense that holds much tension especially the most exciting 20 minutes chase scene in the studio. It's the rarely best!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Unnerving suspense film delivers chills!
Review: Mute Witness is a film that makes me happy that independent filmmakers are still out there working hard to make the best films they can. Although its premise is not that unlike "Wait Until Dark," it winds the whole thing up in a new way to make the suspense even more unnerving.

Don't let the poster art mislead you. There is noone in this film with their lips sewn shut. The "mute" in this film is a female special effects expert on a low budget film. Having been born mute but not deaf, she can function almost perfectly in normal society. Of course we know that she is going to be delivered all sorts of frightful things, but what's the big deal? The big deal is she is part of a low budget film company shooting a horror film in Moscow...Russia. What if you were mute and couldn't convey your desires except in sign language?

Our lead (mute) character, Billie, witnesses a murder...and the murderer discovers this fact. The fact that Russia has long been a source of mystery to Americans, and represented a menacing presence to us, makes this suspense film all the more frightening.

With a cast of unknowns, Mute Witness delivers the frights and chills effectively. There isn't a single person who does a bad job of acting. The script is dynamite and so is everything else about this film.

This is the type of film that Hollywood should be making - but doesn't.

You'll love this film!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Be prepared to bite your nails to the quick
Review: Mute Witness is a story that at times seems confusing, but the suspense is almost unbearable. The first half of the movie is just the best and is handled like an Alfred Hitchcock thriller with excellent camera work and mood. It centers around a mute make-up artist who is assisting a film crew shooting a horror movie in a Moscow studio. While there she is witness to a brutal murder of a prostitute at the hands of some who are making a snuff movie. From that moment, suspense abounds with each frame of the movie. There is some unevenness with the script, but overlook that because you are in for one hell of a rollercoaster thrill ride. This was never in wide release and that was a real shame. Originality never looked this good!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent, exciting and suspensful!
Review: Mute Wittness is an exciting movie with many surprises

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Very good and very bad
Review: Starts off great but slowly dissolves into a jumbled mess. Genuinely unnerving and worth watching for about an hour. Then, for some reason, the movie goes in a completely different direction. It seems like the film changes directors and scripts right in the middle. Worth seeing especially if you plan to fall asleep or go out before the ending.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Very good and very bad
Review: Starts off great but slowly dissolves into a jumbled mess. Genuinely unnerving and worth watching for about an hour. Then, for some reason, the movie goes in a completely different direction. It seems like the film changes directors and scripts right in the middle. Worth seeing especially if you plan to fall asleep or go out before the ending.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Superior suspense thriller
Review: This film is a masterly piece of thriller cinema, unique for several reasons. First, it places a small, young American film crew in Moscow shooting a low-budget independent film--how many movies have that setting? Second, the protagonist, one of the crew, is a mute woman who serves various functions on the crew: props person, makeup artist, and others--and how many movies have that kind of protagonist? Third, it is the last appearance of Alec Guiness in a feature film.

The young woman accidentally witnesses a brutal murder by two Russian men of a Russian woman. The men hear something during the killing and chase her. What ensues is much more clever than a typical woman-in-jeopardy tale. The writer-director, Anthony Waller, does a superb job of throwing in unpredictable twists and turns at every bend in the road. The resolution is excellent and getting there is a whole lot of fun. It's great to see this top-notch suspense thriller finally coming out on DVD.

Upon release, this received excellent reviews from diverse publications. Highly recommended.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Superior suspense thriller
Review: This film is a masterly piece of thriller cinema, unique for several reasons. First, it places a small, young American film crew in Moscow shooting a low-budget independent film--how many movies have that setting? Second, the protagonist, one of the crew, is a mute woman who serves various functions on the crew: props person, makeup artist, and others--and how many movies have that kind of protagonist? Third, it is the last appearance of Alec Guiness in a feature film.

The young woman accidentally witnesses a brutal murder by two Russian men of a Russian woman. The men hear something during the killing and chase her. What ensues is much more clever than a typical woman-in-jeopardy tale. The writer-director, Anthony Waller, does a superb job of throwing in unpredictable twists and turns at every bend in the road. The resolution is excellent and getting there is a whole lot of fun. It's great to see this top-notch suspense thriller finally coming out on DVD.

Upon release, this received excellent reviews from diverse publications. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: exciting...shocking....brilliant nail-biting suspense.......
Review: this move was great....a great script....loaded with surprises and shocks...you'll be biting your nails fast and they'll be all gone by the time the movie is over....fantastic suspense film....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Shocking!
Review: We all thought that Nic Cage's movie 8MM was horrible art but some did not experience the pure and raw anxiety in this film! A must have for horror film lovers!


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