A veteran London police in spector who’s a devout Mus lim is intriguingly at the center of Jag Mundhra’s “Shoot on Sight,” which starts out as a thriller inspired by that city’s 2005 Tube and bus bombings but gets bogged down in a family soap opera.
To get a promotion, our hero has the touchy task of overseeing a probe into the police shooting of a fellow Muslim who apparently was mistaken for a terrorist.
Things get complicated when the inspector’s Christian wife begins to suspect his nephew is involved in a terrorist plot – masterminded by a fanatical imam who’s the inspector’s childhood friend.
Unfortunately, the coincidences don’t stop there. The performances are uneven, with the best work coming from Naseeruddin Shah as the dignified inspector, Brian Cox as his nervous boss and Om Puri as the scary imam.
Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (violence, profanity). At the Loews Village, 11th Street and Third Avenue. – Lou Lumenick