Tockinit not horrible nor great

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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!

GUENOT PHILIPPE Yes folks, when a hunter shoots at first sight, I did fell in love with this film the very same way, in the early eighties, when it was released in France in VHS. I rented it and made a copy just after the first viewing. A film as I love. It reminds me SOUTHERN COMFORT, DELIVERANCE, WOLF CREEK, OPEN SEASON, in summary another kind of survival, a men's tale. ONLY for men. And I also have read the novel that inspired this authentic gem. Very interesting too. With a real character study, an offbeat study which the ending makes more important; watch it and you'll understand why. A hit right into the face.The film is very faithful to the book, except the novel emphasizes more on the characters. But it is a very unusual story, entertaining, even totally unbelievable. Nothing realistic here. Nothing. But who cares?I'll never be tired to watch it again and again.

Homer900 I saw this movie when it first came out. I had seen the novel in the base exchange and since I was sticking around base, I read it in a few days. Interesting characters and plot, a Deliverance type of ethical dilemma and the inclusion of some good actors, I thought it would be a good movie. I was disappointed at seeing many of the characters wooden and shallow, unlike their motivations in the book. Several of the characters were WWII vets, with a Vietnam vet thrown in. Interesting in the book, slow and dragging on screen. When the final encounter happens, it is well done and it was shocking to see. It was one of a series of movies made in the 70s with a stark realism to its look, but the story line was far-fetched. Nothing I have read or done would lead me to believe that the novel or the movie though were based upon Soviet spetznaz incursions from Canada into the U.S. Just a good novel not particularly well done to screen.

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!