The Last Witness - Only dead witnesses are silent
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Last Witness - Only dead witnesses are silent |
| Original title | Caracara / The Last Witness |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Graeme Clifford |
| script | Craig Smith |
| production |
Barbara Black David Lancaster Armand Mastroianni Jeffrey Morton |
| music |
Christophe Beck Peter D. Kaye |
| camera | Bill Wong |
| cut | Stan Cole |
| occupation | |
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The Last Witness - only dead witnesses are silent ( Caracara and The Last Witness ) is a Canadian thriller by Graeme Clifford from the year 1999 .
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Rachel Sutherland is a single ornithologist who lives in New York City and works in a museum. Her mother, Cynthia, has a drinking problem. A rare bird, a vulture falcon ( Caracara ) named Humphrey, is Rachel's only friend.
The FBI -Agenten Donald A. Hartz and James Halsel contact Rachel with a request to make their homes accessible for monitoring a suspect to. Sutherland should be paid for it. She agrees.
A little later, Sutherland meets the handsome David J. McMillan, the leader of the agent group. She spends a romantic evening with him and falls in love with him. However, it turns out that the alleged FBI agents are hired killers who want to kill the president of an African state during his visit to New York City. Sutherland is tied up and gagged by the men .
McMillan shoots Hartz and Halsel shortly before attempting to carry out the assassination attempt. Rachel can call for help via the telephone emergency number and saves the life of the African statesman. McMillan flees. Sutherland is placed under police protection as a witness. Mr. Zander, one of McMillan's employers, is killed by another man shortly after meeting him, which confirms the validity of the plans. Disguised in disguise, McMillan tries to continue his mission and get rid of Rachel and all the other witnesses. He kills Rachel's friend Christy in her apartment. From a recording on the answering machine, he learns that Sutherland is in her mother's house. There he seriously injured Cynthia with a knife. He pursues Rachel, but is chased away by the arriving police, who were called by her mother before she passed out.
In another attack, McMillan kills Edmund Mkambati, who belongs to the delegation of the foreign president. The President remains unmolested. Rachel and Policeman Jack Peligrino, who is wounded in the process, are able to hunt down McMillan. The real mastermind, Alan Crancer, is killed by Mkambati's people. The background to this was a massacre that took place years ago, which wiped out an entire African tribe. Mkambati and Crancer were responsible for the US arms deliveries.
Rachel, who befriended the divorced Peligrino, wants to move in with her mother. And the missing vulture falcon is there again in the end.
Reviews
- kino.de described the film as “solidly arranged” and as a “solid action duel” with “some noteworthy moments of tension” . Towards the end, however, the film is "increasingly outrageous" .
- TV Today magazine accused the film of having a " thin story ", " unnecessary brutality " and " stupid dialogues ". The editors scoffed that the film would not only put off " fans of good thrillers ", but also animal lovers. Cinema agreed.
- The magazine TV direkt 5/2007 wrote that the film was " unnecessarily cruel ".
Web links
- The Last Witness - only dead witnesses are silent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Last Witness - only dead witnesses are silent at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Tele 5 from 16 - FSK 18 by The Last Witness at Schnittberichte.com