Shoot On Sight

Shoot On Sight (2007)

  • 22% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (497 ratings)

A man is torn between his faith, his family, and his profession in this taut thriller. Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah) was born in Pakistan and raised in a Muslim household by parents who later emigrated to London, but he's been willing to set a certain amount of his cultural identity aside in… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Carl Austin
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Dec 15, 2007 Wide
Aron Govil Productions

Critic Reviews

  • Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

    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.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    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.

  • Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

    Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, Shoot on Sight is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.

  • Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

    A crude network-TV event of a movie.

  • Maitland McDonagh, Miss FlickChick

    A tediously earnest, well-intentioned and scrupulously even handed [topical thriller], in the style of made-for-TV problem movies.

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  • Luke B


    A film that looks and feels like a TV movie. It has a message, but it's a message that is painfully obvious to anybody with the slightest bit of intelligence. It's also handled in a very patronizing and contrived way. The performances range from very bad - Brian Cox (i.e.… More

  • Khris N


    An interesting take on the London bombings and the Metro Police's investigations, we meet a Commander of Pakistani descent who is placed in charge to investigate the death of a young muslim at the hands of police for suspicion of terrorrism. At home, his nephew has just recently… More

  • 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… More

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