A film only remembered because the producers sacked the original director, Keith Salvat, during filming - because they were running behind schedule apparently. The 1st AD took over.
The day was not saved. I'm not sure it ever could have been, mostly because the film is so confusing. I've read a synopsis at Oz Movies here and it's still confusing.
They try to do too much, It's Rear Window in an apartment block but also conspiracy thriller stuff about a computer closer to 2001. Pick a lane. Dennis Whitburn is credited as one of the writers.
Gary Day doesn't really have the individuality to play a leading man - he was always more effective as corrupt cop offsiders for other actors. He's the hero here, a man in a wheelchair doing work for computers in an apartment who becomes convinced neighbour John Ewart is killing people.
There's two female leads - Day's wife Penny Downie and nurse Kim Deacon - when one would've done.
It's fun to see John Ewart as a homicidal maniac but it was so confusing and after a while I was longing for sex and violence. Vincent Monton's photography is typically excellent and there's some decent suspense sequence such as Deacon poking around Ewart's apartment.
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