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Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghIt's earnest, well-intentioned and scrupulously even-handed, in the style of made-for-TV problem movies.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe movie's lack of subtlety is countered by an unswerving commitment to impartiality.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickStarts out as a thriller inspired by that city's 2005 Tube and bus bombings but gets bogged down in a family soap opera.
- Shoot on Sight has good intentions but winds up a thematically simplistic, dryly plotted and perfunctorily shot melodrama, one of those movies where dialogue is there to categorize people, not parse the complexities of human beings.
- 40VarietyVarietyA disappointingly stilted melodrama masquerading as a political thriller.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceAs if only made for ignoramuses who get nervous around brown skin, nearly everything on-screen is condescendingly telegraphed--from its plodding dialogue jammed with black-or-white morals to its lingering reaction shots, one-dimensional racists and radicals, obvious mood music, and thriller clichés.