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:Sep 26, 2008 Limited
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,... 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, married to an English woman, and with two kids, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist on the London Underground. Distrusted by both his British superiors in the London police, and his fellow Muslims, he finds his inquiry hampered from all sides. When evidence surfaces pointing to the slain man's innocence, as well as the existence of a terrorist cell operating in his own backyard, Tariq must face the realization that sometimes, the right decision is the hardest one to make. The film in inspired by the terrorists' attacks of July 7, 2005 on the London underground that resulted in Shoot On Sight order. --© Aron Govil Productions [More]
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif, Ralph Ineson, Gulshan Grover, Laila Rouass, Mikaal Zulfikaar, Sadie Frost, Brian Cox
Director: Jag Mundhra
Director: Jag Mundhra
Screenwriter: Carl Austin
Producer: Jag Mundhra
Composer: John Altman
Studio: Aron Govil Productions
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Earnest problem-drama about a Muslim police inspector in London investigating fellow cops' killing of a suspected terrorist.
The taut, ultimately explosive drama shows most of its dramatic cards too early, but it boasts two memorable performances.
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.
A 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.
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.
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.
Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, Shoot on Sight is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.
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