{"id":3267,"date":"2013-09-22T10:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T18:51:40","slug":"a-single-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/a-single-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"A SINGLE SHOT"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is supposed to be a thriller, A SINGLE SHOT, is more like a lone dud or loud thud in this adaptation by Matthew F. Jones of his own novel.\u00a0 Directed by David M. Rosenthal, Sam Rockwell leads the charge as John Moon.\u00a0 A simple dairy farmer just scraping by after the loss of the family farm, his wife has left him and taken their infant son with her, leaving him to mourn their departure in the solitude of the local woods where he hunts deer and other game.<\/p>\n

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Known for his somewhat illegal hunting and having had more than one run in with the law over poaching, on this dewy dank and dreary day, Moon is out chasing down a deer.\u00a0 Shooting at a\u00a0 moving target, he hears it fall and runs over to grab his kill.\u00a0 But its not a deer that he\u2019s brought down.\u00a0 It\u2019s a young girl and she\u2019s dead.\u00a0 Knowing his past, knowing this hunt was illegal and still begging his wife to return home because he\u2019s a \u201cgood guy\u201d, Moon realizes that no one can learn of this killing.\u00a0 Scouting the area, he finds where the girl has been squatting.\u00a0 He also finds a large stash of cash.<\/p>\n

Hiding the dead body in a dumpster, Moon takes the cash, believing it will solve all of his problems.\u00a0 But we all know what comes from ill-gotten gains; especially when the gains are the property of hardened killers.\u00a0 As to be expected, in this rural West Virginia town, it doesn\u2019t take long before every unsavory character around is after him, coming at him from all sides with violence escalating at every turn.<\/p>\n

Given the poorly scripted adaptation, Sam Rockwell does what he can with the convoluted madness.\u00a0 Accepting John Moon as a flawed and conflicted character, Rockwell not only plays on Moon\u2019s shortcomings, but adds nuanced lawyers of humanity and kindness that is not only touching, but evokes empathy. Given the interesting character study that Rockwell delivers with a poor script, I can only imagine what he would have done with something more cinematic, richer, and unfettered.<\/p>\n

William H. Macy makes an all too-brief appearance as the local lawyer, Pitt.\u00a0 With bad toupee, ugly polyester plaid jacket, and a gimped right arm and leg as if post-stroke or polio, Pitt is a man with a seemingly harmless, yet duplicitous, duality which, again, Macy is not given a chance to fully explore.\u00a0 Supporting local criminals are stereotypical and undefined yet are portrayed by notable actors who have nothing to really work with – Jason Isaacs (who is surprisingly one-note as ex-con Waylon), Ted Levine, Jeffrey Wright – all fall into a mumble jumble of too many characters and an undefined and refined plot.<\/p>\n

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While director Rosenthal guides us with subtle sparsity, surprising is the failure by Jones to make a more cinematic adaptation of his own work, especially given the very nature of the subject matter.<\/p>\n

Eduard Grau\u2019s cinematography is oppressive, hazy and murky as if the entire film was shot under a metaphoric fog; particularly disappointing given the importance of handwritten notes displayed on screen which are integral to the story and action but under the visual mire, are unreadable.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to take a shot at A SINGLE SHOT, make it Jones\u2019 novel (which is excellent) or grab a bottle of some sippin\u2019 whiskey to get you through the film.<\/p>\n

Directed by David M. Rosenthal<\/p>\n

Written by Matthew F. Jones based on his novel of the same name<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jason Isaacs, Ted Levine, Jeffrey Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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