Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Ginger 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.

merklekranz With Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, and Henry Silva on board, I was expecting a lot more than "Shoot" delivered. Character development is virtually nil, and Silva's part could easily been played by a no name actor. Sandwitched between the opening ambush and the final shootout in the snow, is some filler that has no bearing whatsoever on the outcome of the movie. A chatty widow and a friend's wife throwing themselves at Cliff Robertson feels like nothing more than script stretching. "Shoot"'s similarity to "Rituals" and "Hunter's Blood", two other "Deliverance" clones is unmistakable, but they are far superior movies. A BIG letdown. - MERK

inspectors71 As the reviewer Snowleopard points out, the premise for the Canadian film Shoot is a good one, the accidental gunning-down of a hunter by a member of another hunting party, and the subsequent ramping up of a revenge attack on the opposition the next time they're out in the wild. But good ideas sometimes run afoul of sloppy direction and lack of production cash.Shoot sounds good, but looks cheap. Yet, even when you've given up on the movie, when you don't even care anymore that the film has some great talent (Cliff Robertson, Ernest Borgnine, and Henry Silva), you're still rooting for some sort of justice or even just a violent closure to the tragedy that sets the stage for the film.You get the impression that this is just one more of those earlier Canadian films that were thrown together to compete with American products, but didn't have the expertise or the financial backing to pull it off. This isn't an insult to Canada; the skill that Canadian film-makers exhibit is excellent, but skills take practice to acquire and Shoot looks like practice (watch Russian Roulette with George Segal to get a feel for a film industry finding itself).Anyway, as a 19 year old, I was astonished by the ending of the film. Thirty years later, I would probably see it coming a mile away. Unfortunately, I can't find Shoot, but I would suggest that if you can acquire a cheap copy (or even see an edited version on TV), you should do it. The performances are tense and the scenery is stark and beautiful.My recollections are from HBO in 1979 or so, but I do have an affection for this movie. There is a place in Spokane, Washington, under the T.J. Meenach Bridge, on the way to Spokane Falls Community College that will remind you of the river scene in the climax to Shoot. Covered with snow, with icy river water rushing by, you can imagine the climactic shootout in this movie taking place right in front of your eyes.It's a pleasant memory of a mediocre movie.Not a bad thing.

Homer900 I saw this movie when it first came out. I had seen the novel in the base exchange and since I was sticking around base, I read it in a few days. Interesting characters and plot, a Deliverance type of ethical dilemma and the inclusion of some good actors, I thought it would be a good movie. I was disappointed at seeing many of the characters wooden and shallow, unlike their motivations in the book. Several of the characters were WWII vets, with a Vietnam vet thrown in. Interesting in the book, slow and dragging on screen. When the final encounter happens, it is well done and it was shocking to see. It was one of a series of movies made in the 70s with a stark realism to its look, but the story line was far-fetched. Nothing I have read or done would lead me to believe that the novel or the movie though were based upon Soviet spetznaz incursions from Canada into the U.S. Just a good novel not particularly well done to screen.

VideoMonkey I saw this flick years ago when TV was still cool and they had late night movies on most stations instead of ridiculous talk-shows and infomercials. It was probably only on because it was Canadian, and stations were required to have so much Canadian content and back them Canadian movies were for the most part bad or non-existent. It had all the cursing blanked out but still I was old enough to infer what was said. But I was most impressed with this back then! It took me a lot of years to track down a copy of this on video, and now that I did and watched it again, I still thought that it was awesomely cool (even though I knew what the ending would be). The story is pretty simple. A group of hunters bored because there is nothing left to shoot, meet another group of hunters in the same situation. Then just like that, a firefight erupts leaving one of their group injured and one of the other group dead. From then on, it builds up from 'should they report it' to 'they be after us for revenge' and every level in between. So the hunters get all the guns and gear and able-bodied men they can and go back to the spot the following Saturday in anticipation of the other hunters being there to ambush them. Will they be there or is it just paranoia? I'm not saying but the ending is a surprise.