Brooding, big-haired Alpha dog Rex (Cliff Robertson) shoots to thrill in 70s Canadian backwood's bang-fest 'Shoot', with a boisterously bang-on cast of stalwart actors including the legendary Ernest Borgnine, James Blendick, and B-Cult hero Henry Silva! These noisome, smack-talking weekend warriors have their regular male-bonding weekend abruptly concluded with the sudden retaliatory shooting of some unknown, mysteriously trigger-happy fellow hunter, and the grim, existential malaise they all endure thereafter very soon escalates to our Gung ho, gun happy chappies making a fateful decision that puts them directly in the firing line for some heavy-duty retribution! Harvey Hart's excitingly tense, straight shooting boy's own yarn is loaded for bear, and while some may balk at the film's slow-burning fuse, the explosive climax is well worth the wait! I'm certainly glad I took a shot with 'Shoot', as sometimes big boy's just wanna have gun!' And I gotta give major props to funk master Doug Riley's gritty score which deliciously delivered some super-dope Lalo Schifrin-esque grooves! Right on!
Review of Shoot
