Forced Testimony (1984) User Reviews (4)

It Could have been a very good movie...

[youpeeinthesea · 3/10 · 20 October 2007]

but it fell apart trying to be every type of movie in one.. about the moral obligation to come forth if you are a witness(to a serious crime like rape) -a family movie about divorce raising a child as a single parent -depression after being raped

-the Israeli Police apathy -The criminal justice system in Israel

-snakes in Israel -crazy drivers in Israel

-a movie that portrays a real incident that happened (a year and a half jail time for hitting a rapist on the head one too many times)

-and of course, a soft porn movie with Anat revealing again to the world her beautiful body.

My goodness.

Sex and children in the same movie.

Makes me want to vomit.

This movie has very little to give its audience. I must say that many of the scenes unfortunately reflect extremely well various humanoids walking around in Israel.

Of course, the laws have changed since 1984 and may God Help anyone who looks at a woman 'the wrong way' - if she knows her rights and is willing to nail him to the wall! AS IT SHOULD BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The worst Israeli movie ever. Guaranteed

[max_s444 · 2/10 · 18 July 2002]

Its not that Israeli cinema hasn't given us some bad excuses for film waste. What makes this film top them, is the fact it has the nerve to take itself seriously.

Anat Azmon's neighbor gets raped. She accidentally sees the guy and becomes the main witness against him. His brother, a mobster, threatens her life continuously and begins entering them. her ex-husband uses this to try to take their child from her. When you write it down, it sounds okay, doesn't it ?

Its not just that everyone plays bad (except maybe for Uri Gavriel playing the mobster). the script gets you bored too fast. You get the feeling that it should have been a thriller (I'm not even going to say a psychological thriller). But nothing makes sense. And that's just the first level of 'Bad'. The level that most films can get to. The second level ? you just have to see it to believe it. Just to get you clued in, this movie shows a five-foot guy successfully raping a seven-foot woman (who accidentally bashes him half-way across the room on one shot). She's so afraid of the midget she throws up on him. This is the opening scene.

Wretched waste of time

[Reverend-Flasher · 1/10 · 20 April 2008]

I picked this old VHS up in a charity shop because the cover made it sound like it could be okay. What a mistake! I won't bother to describe the plot as others have, but it's hard to believe "Forced Witness" came from the usually reliable Cannon/Golan-Globus team who were behind most of Chuck Norris's classics and numerous other enjoyable films. Pathetic on all levels- bad dubbing, bad acting, no violence other than a crappy fight scene, no blood, no sex other than some brief topless shots. The rape scene is not even on screen for half its duration! The police characters are really hopeless and the bad guys are just plain sad. Boring with endless scenes of tedious talk and a really mediocre subplot of the mother's relationship with her new beau and the disapproval of her son, who is a butt ugly little obnoxious creep. Don't bother at all, watch "Death Wish" or "I Spit On Your Grave" instead!

Need a copy

[BandSAboutMovies · 2/10 · 11 March 2022]

Forced Testimony or Forced Witness in the U. S., this was one of the few Cannon movies that I couldn't track down.

Directed by Raphael Rebibo and co-written with Eli Tavor, who worked on all of the Lemon Popsicle movies, this tells the story of Ronit (Anat Azmon, Nikki from the aforementioned Lemon Popsicle) who accidentally sees the man who has assaulted her neighbor and becomes a witness against him. However, his brother finds out who she is and starts threatening her, while her ex-husband uses all of this drama to try to take their child back.

How rare is this movie? No one has even written about it on Letterboxd and there are three user reviews on IMDB. Have you seen it? Can you point me to a copy? My Cannon addiction demands it!