Excellent, smart action film.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Take two excellent comedic actors-Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder-and a brilliantly simple premise-a blind man and a deaf man are wrongly suspected of a murder- and what you have is See No Evil, Hear No Evil, a side-splitting farce in which the disabled pair, Wally (Pryor) and Dave (Wilder), have to try and prove their innocence by tracking down the real villains (played by sexy Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey).With Wally unable to see and Dave having to lip read, the scene is set for some incredibly funny knockabout comedy and hilarious verbal interchanges, ably handled by veteran director Arthur Hiller (who also worked with Pryor and Wilder on Silver Streak in 1976).There are way too many funny moments to list, but my favourites are when Dave misunderstand's bad-tempered cop Braddock (Alan North), thinking he has said 'Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman', and Wally, posing as a Swedish gynecologist, giving a talk on multiple orgasms in geriatric women!Also worth a mention: Severance's shower scene (the actress going topless) and Kevin Spacey's facial cyst (the actor had it removed soon after, but here it is so big that it deserves a screen credit all of its own).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

"See No Evil, Hear No Evil" has one of those really great gimmicks: two witnesses to a murder - one blind, one deaf - are also the prime suspects. This finds Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor knee-deep in one hazardous situation after another, and the movie really prides itself on the physical comedy of its performers. The whole police station sequence, from the mugshot through the interrogation is pure gold.Pryor and Wilder have a natural chemistry that makes everything run smoothly, despite the improbability of a lot of what goes on here. The movie didn't work so well for me when the larger industrial espionage story took hold, but the broad comedy of the leads is definitely worth the price of admission. And for the delightfully naked Joan Severance, in all honesty.In the end, it's really just a delightful '80s comedy.7/10

See No Evil, Hear No Evil was the third collaboration between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. The 1989 film directed by Arthur Hiller was a comedic goldmine of a story where a blind man and a deaf man must rely on each other to clear their names as they have been wrongly accused of a murder. The third time was a charm for the Wilder/Pryor duo as they turned in another comedic standout with this film. Never short of laughs or story, See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a treat for audiences 27 years after its release. Dave Lyons (Gene Wilder) runs a convenience stand inside a hotel in New York and just happens to be deaf. 'Wally' Karue, (Richard Pryor) is a man down on his luck who answers Dave's ad for a job opening, and just happens to be blind. Feeling a kinship to one another, Dave hires Wally and the two work together. Everything goes smoothly for the men, what Wally struggles with, Dave helps, and what Dave struggles with, Wally makes up for. When a murder is committed in front of Wally's stand while his back is turned, he turns around just in time to see the murderers legs, and Wally comes in just in time to smell the murderer. Together they are the perfect witness to the crime until they are the ones accused of committing it. Eager to prove their innocence and escape police custody, hilarity ensues in the unique way that only Wilder and Pryor can deliver. There were some wonderfully funny scenes in this movie. The premise of two men having a difficulty in which they need the other to drive a car, or have a fist fight was a great concept for a comedy. For an interesting bit of trivia, Gene Wilder passed on this script multiple times because it was initially poorly written and riddled with inaccuracies. When he finally accepted, he prepared for the role by meeting with a woman that would later become his wife. The writing must have certainly approved, no doubt with Wilder's influence as he was a credited writer on the finished product. What comes through in the finished piece was wonderful, and full of subtly funny scenes that became a mainstay in a Wilder/Pryor film. This film used to be my favorite film of the four that Wilder and Pryor worked together on; it has since been replaced with Silver Streak, but it is still a fun turn every time one watches it. Wilder's character was as good as ever, only going to prove that, like a fine wine, Wilder's acting only improved with age.

I was thoroughly impressed with this movie. The writing and the script were wonderfully done with witty remarks and hilarious scenarios that kept the laughs nonstop. But it wasn't all fun and games as they also added other serious elements to make the story more heartfelt. The duo's chemistry was flawless as they bonded over their struggles and disabilities. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor executed their roles perfectly and made a very convincing blind and deaf man. It was also interesting to see a young Kevin Spacey before his career took off. I will have to see some more of Wilder and Pryor's collaborations. Exceptional film.