See No Evil, Hear No Evil Reviews

I have just seen recently ‘Harlem Nights’ starring Richard Pryor so it was pretty nice to see so soon another comedy also starring this guy. This time, it was one of those flicks he made with Gene Wilder (they eventually made 4 of those together) and I thought it was not bad. Indeed, the concept to have a blind man (played by Pryor) teaming up with a deaf man (played by Wilder) was actually pretty neat. It might sound silly on paper and it is indeed a typical concept comedy but the comic possibilities were infinite but it’s too bad they didn’t exploit better this interesting material. Indeed, the way they met was just poorly handled and, at some point, they get involved with some gangsters (played by Kevin Spacey and Joan Severance who were both starring also at the time in the TV show ‘Wiseguys’) was just really underwhelming. It was rather funny to see Kevin Spacey in his first major movie part, even though his character was boring like hell. Furthermore, the whole thing went too long for its own good. Eventually, the more I think about this movie, the more I think my rating was actually generous but I guess it is worth a look, at least if you like the genre.