A CLEAR SHOT Review: Ripped From The Headlines, Mario Van Peebles Battles Politics Amid Crisis
Director Nick Leisure’s small-scale hostage thriller, A Clear Shot, takes off with a crime just moments away, as four armed Vietnamese boys arrive to a packed electronics store with the intent insofar of taking hostages and imposing their will. Over time, their seeming façade is slowly stripped away as the police look into the suspects, and with Sacramento Police Departments’ top hostage negotiator negotiator Rick Gomez (Mario Van Peebles) front and center. Drawing on its historic prevalence dating back to a real-life 1991 incident in Sacremento, California, A Clear Shot, goes out of its way in flashbacks to flesh out a more humane underpining centered on the Nguyen brothers – Loi (Hao Do), Long (Tony Dew) and Pham (Kevin Bach), and fourth member, Cuong (Dang Tran). The family melodrama here is met halfway with an arc that follows Gomez as he struggles to mitigate the uneasy politics of both the […]
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