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| | | Conflict in Britain | | | | Marrying small-screen formula to big-screen actors, “Shoot on Sight” is an earnest melodrama that struggles to surmount its good intentions.
Inspired by events that followed the 2005 bombings of the London transport system, the movie is gamely shouldered by Naseeruddin Shah as Tariq, a Muslim police officer heading an internal investigation into the questionable shooting of a suspected terrorist. Weary of face and honest of character, Tariq is alternately buffeted by a media-fearful boss (Brian Cox) and a boyhood friend turned religious fanatic (Om Puri).
As Carl Austin’s workmanlike script hustles Tariq and his family toward a predictably violent shopping-mall climax, the movie’s lack of subtlety is countered by an unswerving commitment to impartiality. Characterization may be superficial, but it isn’t bigoted, and the director, Jag Mundhra, finds space between his broad strokes to hint at the smaller — but equally destabilizing — frictions between Tariq’s white wife. | | |
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