The Perfect Witness

Original title: The Ungodly

2007
R
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

Mickey is about to get his big break as an amateur filmmaker, from a serial killer who turns him and his camera into 'the perfect witness'.

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Mickey is about to get his big break as an amateur filmmaker, from a serial killer who turns him and his camera into 'the perfect witness'.Mickey is about to get his big break as an amateur filmmaker, from a serial killer who turns him and his camera into 'the perfect witness'.Mickey is about to get his big break as an amateur filmmaker, from a serial killer who turns him and his camera into 'the perfect witness'.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Trivia
According to an interview he gave to the New York Times in 2010, this movie was made during the middle of Wes Bentley's decade-long, extremely serious addiction to cocaine and heroin. He said in that interview that he only accepted any movie roles during that time so that he would have money to buy enough drugs.

Quotes
James Lemac: So what do you want from me?
Mickey Gravatski: I'm a film maker. I wanna do this documentary about you. About what you do.
James Lemac: How'd you find me?
Mickey Gravatski: [no response]
James Lemac: You wanna do what with me?
Mickey Gravatski: Documentary?
James Lemac: And if I don't agree?
Mickey Gravatski: I send the tape to the police. But, if you do, I won't release it, ya know, until, or if, you're caught.
James Lemac: Look. Children, digging holes. Mothers watching their children. But who watches the mothers?
Mickey Gravatski: Do you um, do you, do you like children?
James Lemac: I like mothers better.
James Lemac: So why should I believe you?
Mickey Gravatski: I wanna do this documentary. Serial killers, ya know, when they're caught, the media, they portray them as m...
[women walk by]
Mickey Gravatski: monsters. Animals. I wanna show that you're... human, and ya know, show your thoughts, and feelings, and um, I wanna preserve you.
James Lemac: And what if I decide my next victim is you?
Mickey Gravatski: I don't fit your profile.
James Lemac: Humph

Connections
Referenced in My Pure Joy (2011)

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Review

Featured review

6/10

It didn't suck, but I probably wouldn't recommend it

Unlike the other posters so far, I'm not falling over in my seat at how amazing and awesome this movie was -- because it wasn't. Don't be fooled by the fanboy stylings of earlier posts, this is not the latest "Henry." To its credit, it wants to be a movie that good, but it falls short on a variety of levels. The acting is pretty good, but there are no star turns here, except perhaps for the always under-appreciated Beth Grant, in a small role at the end. The story is so-so, but it is filled with logical holes and strains credulity many times.

But the biggest problem for me was depth. The movie wants to be weighing in on the way in which the filmmaker ends up behaving like the killer, but the plot doesn't slow down long enough to really explore it. It just keeps plowing ahead into new unlikely turn after turn, with no time left for a real reckoning for anyone.

At the end, I'm not sorry I watched it, but it wasn't all that great.