Shoot on Sight

Name: Shoot on Sight
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: September 26, 2008
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 45

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Release Date: September 26, 2008 | R

Summary: Tariq Ali is a Muslim officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Lahore and married to an English woman, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist in the London Underground. Distrusted by both his superiors in the police, and his fellow Muslims, he finds his inquiry hampered from all sides. WhenTariq Ali is a Muslim officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Lahore and married to an English woman, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist in the London Underground. Distrusted by both his superiors in the 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. (Aron Govil Productions)… Expand

Director: Jag Mundhra

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 110 min

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

It's earnest, well-intentioned and scrupulously even-handed, in the style of made-for-TV problem movies. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

The movie's lack of subtlety is countered by an unswerving commitment to impartiality. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Starts out as a thriller inspired by that city's 2005 Tube and bus bombings but gets bogged down in a family soap opera. Read full review

Robert Abele

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 full review

Alissa Simon

A disappointingly stilted melodrama masquerading as a political thriller. Read full review

Aaron Hillis

As if only made for ignoramuses who get nervous around brown skin, nearly everything on-screen is condescendingly telegraphed--from its plodding dialogue jammed with black-or-white morals to its lingering reaction shots, one-dimensional racists and radicals, obvious mood music, and thriller clichés. Read full review

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