Shoot on Sight
About this movie
- Synopsis
- 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 ......
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- Starring
- Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Brian Cox, Om Puri, Sadie Frost
- Director(s)
- Jag Mundhra
- Distributor(s)
- Aron Govil Prod.
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 110 min.
Critic Reviews
The New York Times | Jeannette CatsoulisAdd Critic to Favorites
The movie's lack of subtlety is countered by an unswerving commitment to impartiality.Read the full review
Variety | Alissa SimonAdd Critic to Favorites
A disappointingly stilted melodrama masquerading as a political thriller.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Robert AbeleAdd Critic to Favorites
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.Read the full review
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