A tediously earnest, well-intentioned and scrupulously even handed [topical thriller], in the style of made-for-TV problem movies.
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Shoot on Sight (2008)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:2
Rotten:7
Average Rating:4/10
Theatrical Release:22-08-2008
Synopsis: Shoot On Sight is a gripping thriller and riveting family drama that unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Pakistan,... [More]
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif
Director: Jag Mundhra
Reviews for Shoot on Sight
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10/18/08
Top CriticEarnest problem-drama about a Muslim police inspector in London investigating fellow cops' killing of a suspected terrorist.
10/13/08
The taut, ultimately explosive drama shows most of its dramatic cards too early, but it boasts two memorable performances.
09/26/08
Shoot on Sight has good intentions but winds up a thematically simplistic, dryly plotted and perfunctorily shot melodrama, one of those movies where dialogue is there to categorize people, not parse the complexities of human beings.
09/26/08
Top CriticA veteran London police in spector who's a devout Mus lim is intriguingly at the center of Jag Mundhra's Shoot on Sight, which starts out as a thriller inspired by that city's 2005 Tube and bus bombings but gets bogged down in a family soap opera.
09/26/08
Takes its title from a real standing police order issued after the attacks and, seemingly, its inspiration from both nighttime soaps like EastEnders and the PBS Mystery! series.
09/26/08
Movies that pressure audiences into such extreme moral choices veer too close for comfort away from drama and towards their own set of ideological imperatives, in the service of propaganda.
09/26/08
Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, Shoot on Sight is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.
09/26/08
Top CriticA crude network-TV event of a movie.
09/24/08
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