In spite of the casting of 1955's best actor Ernest Borgnine and 1968's best actor Cliff Robertson, this is a ponderous film from start to finish. In a sense it reminded me of "Deliverance" and "First Blood", a movie made years later, but in spite of the actors, I wasn't interested in the plot at all. Kate Reid pops up to add a bit of class, but unfortunately she's totally wasted. The character development is poor and the motivation just simply is not believable, and frankly, it bored me to near sleep. Long scenes where there's no dialogue and a slow setup also had me yawning. In the end, I felt nothing really exciting happened in spite of the fact that what little plot there is promised a great deal that ends up never being delivered.
Review of Shoot
