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.
Overview
Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London. Tariq's task gets complicated as an innocent Muslim is killed by the commando shooters of Scotland Yard. On the other hand, Tariq - a British citizen is himself a suspect in the eyes of his boss, despite his long service in the Scotland Yard
Director and cast
- Jag Mundhra Director
- Naseeruddin Shah as Police Commander Tariq Ali
- Greta Scacchi as Susan Ali
- Alex McSweeney as PC Biran Andrews
- Gulshan Grover as Yunus
- Om Puri as Junaid
- India Wadsworth as Zara Ali
- Brian Cox as Daniel Tennant
- Laila Rouass as Ruby Kaur
- Jeffrey Lipman Snr as Sergeant
- Sadie Frost as Advocate Fiona Monroe
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, Shoot on Sight is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.
A crude network-TV event of a movie.
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