Shoot on Sight

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Audience Member Shah's performance is really good, but the rest of the cast lags behind. Looks and feels like a made for TV event at times and the dramatic feel made me struggle to make it to the end of this one. add comment Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Important movie, however more for TV than for cinema. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Jag vet inte exakt hur mycket av filmen som är baserad pÃ¥ en verklig händelse, dÃ¥ligt pÃ¥läst pÃ¥ just det. Men jag tycker att det är en klart sevärd film med en ganska komplicerad frÃ¥geställning. Sen sÃ¥ tycker jag ju per defualt att europeiska filmer är bättre än amerikanska, men jag kan nog tycka att den här filmen är sevärd av fler anledningar än det :-) Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Un thriller politico-religieux, plutôt bien joué, mais à l'histoire limpide, banale. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member many movies have been made..post 9/11, tackling the issue of terrorism and its effects...the racism showcased is realistic, its not over board, with the limited scope, great actors and a tight screenplay..the movie works !give it a go, it would surprisingly impress ! having our pakistani model act well...is an added plus ! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review walter m "Shoot on Sight" starts with an unarmed Muslim, suspected of being a terrorist, shot and killed by police in the London Underground. Deputy Police Commissioner Daniel Tennant(Brian Cox) employs Commander Tariq Ali(Naseeruddin Shah) to not only be the public face of the inquiry, but also to head it which he readily accepts, feeling he is a step closer to a promotion. He in turn brings on board Ruby(Laila Rouass), a trusted colleague, as his assistant. It is a good thing Tariq is a policeman since he has to bail out his teenaged daughter Zara(India Wadsworth) from jail after a rave before promptly grounding her for a month. Things are not always so fractious at home as Tariq and his wife Susan(Greta Scacchi) welcome his cousin Zaheer(Mikaal Zulfikar) from abroad. "Shoot on Sight" is a frustrating movie that desperately wants to have its cake and eat it too in its depiction of a Muslim community under siege in London after 7/7. The movie depicts that community as just wanting to live in peace as fanatics preach violence to a small minority. Of course, nothing good ever came from violence. All of which is good and decent but none of this, despite a good cast, is very involving. In fact, it is heavily contrived and sometimes even lacking in basic logic. Take the opening sequence for example. No matter how high the terror alert may be, would police really go in guns blazing on just an anonymous tip when there are probably so many? Plus, there is no ambiguity to the scene and therefore to the rest of the movie. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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