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Witness to a Kill

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Ok, where to start....this is one of those action movies you know before u rent that it will be bad, but your curious to see just HOW BAD it could be. I hate these movies where the action scenes are so spread out between completely useless plot and worthless character development. Noone cares about how the damsel in distress feels about their past relationship, just get on with some action please! Having to endure painfull acting scenes between Gary and Françoise Yip is more than enough torure.

other than a few martial arts scenes, this is a gun fight movie. Gary shines as usual. The ending where Gary chases Wolfe on foot through warehouse catwalks while Wolfe is on a motorcycle and Gary somehow manages to tackel him mid-air, um...yeah right. Also the grenade scene where Gary pushes Eva Habermann to safety while the grenade is 2 feet away, the explosion suddenly becomes 20 feet away...um okay.

Gary Daniels is one of those former kick boxing champion whose buff physique and boyishly good looks have enabled him to star in several straight to video movies. Daniels tries hard, but with his cockney accent and poor scripts hampering him, he's yet to really become a true "star". In this attempt to project Daniels into a kind of James Bond role, the movie falls flat due to its slow pacing in the beginning and an unimpressive supporting cast. Nick Boraine as the cunning villain does well, but he isn't on screen a lot until the last fourth of the movie. While the movie does have a high-tension climactic battle, getting there requires a lot of patience on the viewer's part. Darrell Roodt's direction shows some promise in an unusual scene in which we get a slow motion view of a gun flying through the air and the actor's reactions to it; it's a neat visual effect--too bad there weren't more in the entire film.

i like gary daniels and have most of his movies. some are not yet on dvd. my favorites are fist of the north star and rage. this one has all the action that i like. if you are a fan, you must have this one added to your collection