Shoot on Sight
Release Date: September 26, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's earnest, well-intentioned and scrupulously even-handed, in the style of made-for-TV problem movies. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
The movie's lack of subtlety is countered by an unswerving commitment to impartiality. Read full review
50
New York PostLou 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
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert 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
40
VarietyAlissa Simon
A disappointingly stilted melodrama masquerading as a political thriller. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAaron 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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