“Dead Shot” (** out of four) was a detached action suspense thriller set in 1970’s London in which a retired Irish paramilitary (Colin Morgan) witnesses the murder of his wife by an SAS officer (Ami Ameen) and escapes and takes it to the streets on a one-man army of vengeance against him and the SAS as a whole who target him for extinction. Atmospherically lensed by Mattias Rudh on good locations in Edinburgh, Scotland but result is overall unsatisfying as film never really congeals and comes together as a whole. Based on Dr. Steven P. Moysey’s book “The Road To Balcombe Street” which was famous for its anti-sentiments involving the I.R.A. but the film version is mostly half-cocked.

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