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Deadly Pursuit

Shoot to Kill

1988

Roger Spottiswoode

Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown ...

5.9

2,147

Adventure. Action A city cop (Sidney Poitier) and a mountain guide (Tom Berenger) reluctantly join forces to capture a killer who is part of a hunting party traversing the Pacific Northwest and which is being led by the guide's unsuspecting girlfriend (Kirstie Alley).

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Shoot to Kill' works like an efficient machine. Poitier and Berenger create a nice give-and-take chemistry, and there are some funny gags, (...) And the action scene at the end is effective (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	The Washington Post	"Spottiswoode's film has its moments. (...) there are some memorable suspense scenes in the wilderness (involving precarious ledges, involuntary rock climbing over raging white water and a mad grizzly), although it's more the visceral pleasures of the big screen that make them work"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Nice to see Poitier back and full of pep, albeit in a routine thriller."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"This is essentially a formula film, and as such it's nothing fancy. But it has crisp, spare direction, enormous momentum and a story full of twists and turns."	POS
United States	Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times	"The movie is grisly, illogical, contradictory, borderline tasteless, riddled with plot holes--and at the same time, decently photographed, cleanly edited and crisply directed"	NEU

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