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Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Michael Ledo John Moon (Sam Rockwell) is a bad poacher, having been caught three times. He can keep a job, in fact he has kept many of them. He is also not the most careful hunter as he irresponsibly and accidentally shoots a woman (Lana Giacose). As any good citizen, he robs her and hides the body. In fact she has a whole box full of money. Our protagonist is not the nicest person in the world.A couple other things that John is not good at are relationships and hiding money. His wife (Kelly Reilly) wants a divorce as John consults the town's most inexpensive attorney (William Macy) whose judgement in suits and hair pieces leads one to believe he doesn't know how to use a mirror. As it turns out the dead girl had a boyfriend (Ted Levine) who knows John has his money and he wants it back.It is difficult to hide things in a small town as the plot develops some minor complexity. The good, the bad, and the ugly of this film is the fact that it captures the rural flavor of the community with local euphemisms, accents, and slow motion talking. Depending on one's viewpoint, this can make or break the movie. John Moon, is well meaning when it comes to his family, but he is not all good and far from the brightest bulb in the pack.A redneck art film. Not for everyone.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Amy Sloan).

Tom The film is dark and moody, some loosely refer to it as noir. The mountainous backwoods locations of West Virginia fit the films atmosphere perfectly. However, there's something very important missing.I've read a couple pages of reviews and am amazed not a single one even hinted at a huge plot piece missing from the film. The main character accidentally shoots a women while hunting, then discovers a large pile of cash in the hovel where she was staying in the woods. He hides the body and takes the money. Soon the bad guys come looking for it. One key question: why do they even suspect who did the killing and took the money? There's not a single mention of why they come after the killer. Did they see him shoot her? See him hide the money? Anything at all? Nothing. It's a large blank left unanswered and really left me flat. Thumbs way down.

NateWatchesCoolMovies A Single Shot is one of the most overlooked films of 2013, gaining no recognition or praise in its limited release. Too bad, because it's a scorcher. Somewhat of a throwback to the swampy backwoods thrillers of the 70's, it has a deadbeat, moonshine soaked violent veneer of scum and sadness that packs a punch. Sam Rockwell, pretty much fantastic in everything he does, plays simple minded John Moon, a rural game hunter who is really unlucky. His luck goes from worse to catastrophic when he mistakes a young girl fleeing through the woods as a deer, and puts a fatal bullet in her. As happens in these pulpy danger fests, she happens to be the girlfriend of sadistic backwater criminal Waylon, played by Jason Isaacs. Isaacs has a knack for chameleon esque, diverse roles, and here the Irishman sinks his fangs into this deranged, vengeful beast with scary enthusiasm and bloody intent. Although the film is a dirty, depressing downward spiral, it's crafted with a beautiful, mournful tone, with each supporting character Moon meets contributing to his trajectory of misfortune. Jeffrey Wright is great as his raging alcoholic buddy, spending his scenes literally sprawled in a 90 proof stupor and mumbling his lines through a curtain of booze. William H. Macy turns in a genre suited turn as everyone's favourite archetype, the cheery, polite, ruthlessly corrupt sleaze bag lawyer. Joe Anderson makes a scrappy, hot headed young thug, with Kelly Reilly and Ted Levine giving welcome cameos. It's a rough, sorrowful portrait of dead end country living marred by deep seated corruption and violence, and inevitable tragedy. It's also a fun, stylish, earnestly made genre pulp fest. Definitely worth checking out.

David Arnold Hunter John Moon (Sam Rockwell) is out (illegally) hunting for deer when he mistakenly shoots a young woman. Obviously not being able to call the authorities and list it as a hunting accident, he hides her body in a nearby dumpster bin. He also finds a small case full of money and decides to keep it. Unfortunately, as time goes by, he realises that someone is tormenting him and sending clues that they know what he has done so what was supposed to have been a forgotten incident by Moon, turns into a cat & mouse chase for survival.A Single Shot is an EXTREMELY slow going movie which is such a pity because it doesn't take long for the main incident to happen. Once this happened I thought it would start to pick up but unfortunately it didn't. I mean I know there has to be character & story development but even that is slow to develop. If it's cat & mouse then it must be one hell of a slow cat because nothing of note really happens until about an hour in, and even then it still doesn't pick up.The story itself is a good one, but it was just played out so slowly without going anywhere. I usually don't mind slow going movies if I can get into them, but this one I couldn't get into at all and what didn't help in that regard was that I could hardly understand a single word being said, even when my volume was up high. I mean it's hard to understand a lot of the dialogue when the actors have their jaws clenched together and speak through their lips in a southern State accent. Add this together with nothing much happening and it was 2 hours of boredom. Such a shame because it has a very, very decent cast as well (Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Jason Isaacs) but unfortunately even they couldn't do anything to make this film more interesting.A Single Shot should be given a single viewing and nothing more.