VividSimon Simply Perfect

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS****Little known film despite it top cast including 1955 Academy Award winner- for his role in "Marty"- Ernist Borgnine as hunter Lou about a tragic hunting accident that leads to a full scale armed confrontation between the two warring parties of hunters in the wild Canadian woods. It's when James Graham's hunting party opened fire on that of Rex Jeanette, Cliff Robertson, for what Graham felt was invading his party of hunters space Rex's fellow hunter Zeak, Henry Silva, returning fire gunned down one of Graham's men. Not seeing on TV or the the local newspapers the news that the person that Zeak shot was killed Rex came to the conclusion that the Graham party of hunters were out for revenge. And decided to settle the matter or score on their own, without the courts, in a shootout the very next week on the first chance they get to confront, on their hunting trip, each other.Getting all the guns and military equipment ready Rex, a Major in the National Guard, plans a shootout at the obscure area of Saddle Lake that was set to take place that Saturday when the two groups are set in Rex's mind to meet each other. It was Rex who earlier went to see the late James wife, Kate Reid, to express, as a friend of James, his condolence. It's there that he noticed that she sensed to know that he had something to do with her husband's death as well as smells the whiskey on her breath and her failed attempt, in her drunken state, to get him to go to bed with her. He also realized that her husband's death was kept from the news so his friend in the hunting party were going to settle the score on their own not with the help of the law!***SPOILERS**** It took a while for Rex's friend Lou who at first wanted none of this, the modern version of the shoot-out at O.K Corral, to join in the action that in the end ended with him as well as Rex's almost entire party of gunman-hunters and national guardsmen-getting killed in the fighting with Rex himself blinded when it was all over. All this death and destruction being the result of a hunting accident showed just how crazy and insane people can get when they let things get way out of hand. And how mob psychiatry can overrule common sense that like in here settled nothing but in fact ended the lives of some dozens of people who were infected by it!

ctomvelu1 I suspect the book this Canadian indie was based on is far superior to this low-budget adaptation. Two hunting parties cross paths in the Canadian woods, which ends with a man being accidentally killed. Cliff Robertson leads a group of military veterans, and when nothing is heard after the fact about the killing, he figures in his own bent way that the other party will be coming after his men and their families. He decides to take the offensive and leads his men back into the woods, this time armed with automatic weapons and full combat gear. Dull movie, mostly guys standing around talking. A great cast is largely wasted here, including Ernest Borgnine, Henry Silva, Kate Reid and Helen Shaver. Reid steals the show midway through as horny, drunken widow. But it's not enough to redeem this flick, which might have been better offered upas a made for TV job.

serya-1 I am a sucker for survivalist films, men caught up in a situation, especially in isolated settings. This is that type of film, or at least starts out as one, but takes different turns that at first were disappointing, then when all was said and done were appreciated for their originality. The pacing, slow and thoughtful, throws some for a loop, but so did the climax for me, which shifts gears several times and catches you off guard before the credits roll. I defy anyone to nail where this film is going at any point, or figure out its message easily. Several social issues arise. I think you can project different meanings on this film. It has stuck with me.Another thoughtful, slow and subtle film by the same director, in the Horror genre, is The Pyx (1973), also made in Canada. Director Harvey Hart has quite an interesting TV resume, including Alfred Hitchcock, Wild Wild West, Star Trek, Starlost and Colombo.

emm Either I was watching an outdoors program on ESPN or just wasting 90 minutes of my time enjoying this little boring drama about a group of big-game hunters discussing and devising tactics to counter-attack a bunch of strangers who spoiled their weekend in the woods. The best part about it was the ending that compares to a classic Civil War drama with plenty of desperate lives at stake, but don't you agree that SHOOT delivers a plot that sounds too fishy to believe? You bet! If you can find it, give it to a loved one who's spent years of military training. Another sick casualty in the fight for survival in the video stores!