Konterr Brilliant and touching

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

acadianjoe I know this is a badly done movie but it is done in that special bad 1970's way that somehow makes it a tolerable odd movie that once you see it you will not forget it. I still remember seeing it the first time and it was so bad and such a dumb movie I recalled it in vivid detail. After seeing a second viewing decades later it was even worse then I recalled and I remembered it being truly awful. Yet once I again I sat and watched it for a second time. I was fascinated by just how idiotic the entire group was, they had to be some of the daftest characters ever brought to screen. There is just no rhyme nor reason to why they whole movie plays out as it does, It makes no sense why any of it happens.Now with all that being said if you have not seen it you should. Give it a watch, it will confuse and baffle you but one thing is for certain you will never forget it.

JasparLamarCrabb Easy to dismiss as a cut-rate version of DELIVERENCE, this movie is not without merit. A group of seemingly straight-laced weekend hunters are inexplicably fired upon by another group of hunters, resulting in tragedy. The men find paranoia and anger begin to take over and decide to confront the mysterious band. This is a fairly intriguing look at what happens to "normal" people when faced with unbelievable savagery. The cast, led by Cliff Robertson, is first-rate. Robertson, an upstanding business man, is revealed to be a power-mad war monger just aching to shoot somebody. Ernest Borgnine is his best friend, a pacifist trying to talk Robertson off a no-win ledge. There's a truly outré cameo by Kate Reid as a very kinky widow and Henry Silva is part of Robertston's trigger-happy posse. It's directed by Harvey Hart and has a good, suspenseful music score by Doug Riley.

Theo Robertson The IMDb doesn't have a great reputation these days for a number of factors which I won't bother going in to ,but if there's a film that the majority opinion has got right it's this one . SHOOT has a rather Luke warm reception with comments saying it's a film that's never as good as it could have been , or is a mediocre movie or is unrealistic . Certainly it's a film I'd never heard of until accidentally stumbling upon it and considering it has two big name actors in the shape of Cliff Robertson and Ernest Borgnine that alone tells you there's a reason as to why it's so obscure SHOOT is certainly a film with great potential . DELIVERENCE had spawned a subgenre that subsequently become known as " Backwoods brutality " . The Vietnam war had just ended in inglorious defeat for America so right away you're watching a film with massive potential for structuralism and political comment . For some strange reason any political subtext remains unexplored and when someone states " They look just like us " when the two hunting parties come across each other you soon come to realise this is probably coincidence rather than writer Dick Berg making a wider anti-war statement . Instead of making any subtle points the film concerns itself far more with setting up a totally unlikely and melodramatic plot turn featuring revenge that'll have you shaking your head as to how this would probably never happen in real life and then nodding your head that the IMDb reviews saying that this is an unrealistic movie are correct Another annoying aspect to the film is a very cheap budget which gives the impression that it's a TVM , so much so that when characters start swearing it almost comes as a shock to the system . The bleak , murky , grimy cinematography also adds to this impression . Would I be correct in stating this is a badly directed movie ? Regardless of this the majority opinion on this page that it's a ridiculous mediocre movie is correct

GPHemming CIA Counterintelligence Division Chief was anxious to depict for the general public and specific employees of the U.S. Government an event that had actually ocurred on North American sovereign territory. The facts of this incident were that small units of the Soviet Special Forces [Spetznaz] were indeed crossing the U.S./Canada border and conducting special operations near our missile sites in the Dakotas and Montana, and were permanently based in numerous sanctuary sites within Canada. Moreover, the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police]had repeatedly failed to locate and identify these numerous safe-sites and safe-houses. It was discovered later that Soviet moles within the Canadian Government were responsible for sabotaging ALL of the RCMP counterintelligence and law enforcement efforts for years!The writer "Douglas Fairbairn" was actually a CIA Officer using a cover name, and selected the name because of his fondness for the "Fairbairn" Commando Knives that were part of large collection, and respect for the famous British Police Officer [based in Hong Kong] who had designed the knife during World War II.Unfortunately, security and political concerns caused extensive censoring of the final movie script and within a year of its release it was pulled out of circulation and became extremely difficult to locate and obtain, even to this day!Limited portions of Angleton's files were released under the JFK Act and the CIA Historical Review Act. Numerous attempts [via The Freedom of Information Act/FOIA] to declassify files that refer to both this movie and the activities of Soviet Special Forces inside the United States have been thwarted at every turn. This includes attempts by the Assassinations Records Review Board [1990s] and the House Select Committee on Assassinations [1970s] investigators.GPH