William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver are lovely to look at in their early acting days, but this convoluted plot from usually-talented screenwriter Steve Tesich takes both stars down a dead-end road. News reporter Weaver believes janitor Hurt may have seen something the night a businessman was killed in an office building, but Hurt--harboring a crush on the plucky gal--is just playing footsie, that is until the killers find out about him. The opening 20mns of "Eyewitness" are fine, if not thrilling; the production is glossy and the leads are well-matched, but Tesich's script just isn't offbeat enough (and Peter Yates' workmanlike direction is no help). The film gets bogged down in contrivances and overwritten characters, such as Weaver's parents and Christopher Plummer's sinister Israeli. Where is Yates' energy? It peters out fast, leading to an assembly-line finale. *1/2 from ****