Product Details

• Actors: Fred Williamson, Cynthia Rothrock, Robert Forster, Frank Pesce, Amanda Welles
• Directors: Gil Bettman
• Writers: Michael Thomas Montgomery
• Producers: Fred Williamson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Peachtree Entertainm
• VHS Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000FBH1
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,340 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I.....I'm at a loss of words...., December 2, 2005

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Dyraks12 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Vision (DVD)

Oh my God this movie is so bad it's great. I never thought anyone could get so many bad cop cliches in one movie:

a) Two complete opposites get paired up together.

b) Willy Will Williamson gets shot and has to open his vest to show that he had a bulletproof vest.

c) Mr. Williamson has a drinking problem.

d) Fantastic Fred hates his chief.

I'd like to stop here, but the flaws in this movie are high-larious.

a) The WHOLE motorcycle scene. (It's quite obvious that those black things on the ground are exploding.

b) After Fred avoids the bombs, if you look in the background, there are no flames.

c) The song: "Dakota Smith, you're 1, 2, 3, 4, 12 Steps away!"

d) After Dak shoots some dude IN THE HEAD Quick Draw-McGraw turns to him in amazement "He's Dead!!!!" Thanks toots.

e) Oh yeah her last name is not McGraw!

f) The disgustingly huge fat guys that hook up with the playboy bunnyesque chicks. Come on!

g) Newt (the midget.) His role is Oscar worthy.

h) The Video Stalker Barney the Dinosaur is more threatening

i) Video Stalkers death (sorry to ruin the end, but I think you'll see it coming.) His exact words "I'm out of bullets (drops the gun)"

There's more, believe me. Watch it for yourself for a great laugh. Trust me this one is right up there with Satan's Children and Shark Attack 3: Megaladon-The Terror has Risen.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Ugh! I got brains all over me!", October 6, 2011

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Mike Sehorn "Rezo the Dezo" (APO, AE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Night Vision (DVD)

When the King of Blaxploitation Fred Williamson, the Hong Kong Action Queen Cynthia Rothrock, and Oscar nominee Robert Forster got together to make a movie, the resulting debacle is almost as entertaining as it is inept, with the added flaw that there's nothing particularly cool or outright funny about the film. Personally, it was a hoot watching these three stumble around this disaster of a cop thriller, but at the same time I was mighty depressed that there was no part of the movie I could get behind and declare "now THAT'S what I came to see." Don't bother getting this one unless your sole purpose is to subject yourself to cinematic weirdness.

The plot: a serial killer dubbed the Video Stalker (Robert Prentiss, The Alamo) kidnaps, tortures, and kills adulterous young women, compiling videos of their lives and death. The only thing standing in the way of his crime wave is the unlikely duo of trouble cops Dakota Smith (Williamson, Black Caesar) and Kristin O'Connor (Rothrock, Yes, Madam!), who will have to untangle a web of police corruption if they hope to succeed in their mission.

Personally, the best part of watching this film was counting all of the embarrassing technical and storytelling mishaps the movie subjects itself to. The entire production is veritable comedy of errors superficially disguised by decent cinematography. There really are too many stylistic bloopers to list in a review of this length, but some of the more obvious ones include... (1) the killer - whom we later find out has a criminal record - handles all of the material he leaves behind with his bare hands, but no one ever thinks to identify him by his fingerprints; (2) when chased by the killer's van, his first victim (Nina Richardson) is literally run down but even then refuses to scream for help, and subsequently sells a taser attack like a sleeping pill; (3) during an early motorcycle scene, Fred Williamson's double is obviously white; (4) when Smith investigates the aforementioned van, its door is being held open by a clearly visible arm not belonging to the killer, and (5) when Smith crashes his motorcycle in an explosive inferno and his body is nowhere to be found, the cops on the scene are quick to assume he went to the liquor store. All of these things happen within the film's first fifteen minutes and accurately herald the tone of things to come.

Despite technically being a thriller, "Night Vision" provides an okay offering of action, mainly in the form of a few shootouts and a car-motorcycle chase. Despite the presence of Cynthia Rothrock, there's only a bit of karate - mostly featuring her at the end, but Fred Williamson also has short brawl halfway through the flick wherein he throws some very sloppy kicks. The acting isn't as bad as much as the writing is, which more or less demands hammy deliveries from all of the performers with the exceptions of Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) as Smith's comrade and Robert Prentiss as the killer, who do respectively good and bad beyond their written roles. Truly, Robert Prentiss makes an awful antagonist: his character is certainly evil but his performance is so weak and weasely that his out-of-nowhere, police brutality-style death feels a lot more satisfying than it has any right to. Oh, and then there's dwarf rapper Bushwick Bill playing Smith's buddy and fellow Alcoholics Anonymous attendant: he's not a great actor and doesn't really contribute to the story, but the director apparently felt he was interesting enough to keep bringing him back for scenes throughout the movie. Alrighty.

As far as Cynthia Rothrock goes, this is definitely the strangest film she had done since Undefeatable and the most all-around inept one since her fare with Leo Fong. I can't really speak for the careers of Fred Williamson or anybody else involved, but I think it's safe to say that they'd too appreciate us leaving this film mostly forgotten, and rightfully so. Only hardcore completionists and aficionados of nonsense need give this a look.

2.0 out of 5 stars bad on all levels., February 14, 2008

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matthew ward (salt lake city, ut United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Night Vision [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I purchased this for $2 at a local video store thinking it would be enjoyable on an ironic level. It's just a waste--though I'll give it two stars since Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys is in it.