Shoot on Sight (2007)

Best Avoided

UK/USA

Feature Film

Director: Jag Mundhra

Writers: Carl Austin, Jag Mundhra, Pervaiz Alam

Cinematographer: Madhu Ambat

Composer: John Altman

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Brian Cox, Ralph Ineson, Stephen Greif, Om Puri, Mikaal Zulfiqar, Gulshan Grover, Laila Rouass, India Wadsworth, Arrun Harker

With horribly awkward dialogue, hackneyed plotting, a hopelessly incongruent score, a general visual blandness, and more multi-cultural clichés than one could possibly find palatable, this rather earnest thriller, inspired by the London bombings and shameful killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005, is a well-meaning but inelegant film, and one that is quite missable. Iain.Stott