One Shot

one-shot-2014

Director John Lyde
Starring Nichelle Aiden, Jacque Gray, Scott Hanks
Rated UK:15
Score 0/6

When Kyle Matthews, an elite Sniper from the World Defense Force, is trapped in enemy territory – his skills are put to the test as he attempts to survive against a whole armada of Cerulean soldiers, Hell bent on wiping all humans from existence. But when a beautiful Cerulean woman is shot and left for dead by her own kind, Kyle must choose between his own life and the life of one of the very beings he is out to kill.

After watching this ‘movie’ I think I have a new entry in my list of least favorite directors and an entrant on my least favorite screenwriters list because director John Lyde and writer Adam Abram really came across as if they had no clue as to what they were doing during the production of this ‘movie’.
I largely unfamiliar with most of the actors involved with this with the exception of Kevin Sorbo who had previously worked with John Lyde on the 2014 movie Survivor. I’m embarrassed that I know this even more that I have also watched Survivor. This is one of those movies that I really wish that I did not invest any time into to watch to the end. The overall pace of the movie came across as being slow bordering on the glacial on face value this came across as a science-fiction cross between the 2001 John Moore movie Behind Enemy Lines and the current War on Terrorism. I got the impression that Lyde was unable to get his actors to convey any emotions in their performances.
A note to aspiring filmmakers (Yes that includes you to Mr. Lyde) when you are making a good science-fiction movie lasers are a good touch for both the good guys and the bad guys and in the event that you have actors speaking in an alien language there are these things called subtitles. Mr. Lyde in case you had no idea what they where they are the words and sentences that appear on the bottom of the screen synced up to actor’s dialogue.

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