Kill Shot movie storyline. During a hunting trip in Montana, a wilderness guide and former Navy SEAL (Rib Hillis) and his client (Rachel Cook) stumble upon a cache of heist money, unwittingly making themselves the one obstacle standing between a dangerous terrorist group and its lost fortune. Eager to take some of the cash for themselves, the pair learns far too late how easy it can be to make someone disappear in the vastness of Big Sky country.
Kill Shot is an American action thriller film directed by Ari Novak and starring Rib Hillis, Rachel Cook, Bobby Maximus, Mara Ohara, Mark Murphy, Xian Mikol, Todd Gordon, Ari Novak, Jeff Medley, Anaya Patel, Taylor Daniel Allen, Stuart Binenstock and Tyler Kechely. The screenplay was written by Ari Novak and Rib Hillis.
Film Review for Kill Shot
Review: I hadn’t even watched the trailers for Kill Shot before watching it, so I went into it knowing nothing about it; the first ten minutes were fantastic with no dialogue just showing a little girl in Afghanistan travelling across all kinds of terrain to deliver a briefcase of money to some people. Cut to a few weeks later and a plane has crashed with said briefcase so a bunch of mostly nameless villains start combing the countryside for it.
Rib Hillis plays our hero Jackson Hardison who has a particular set of skills and these days mostly uses them to take people on Elk hunts in the wilderness. His life has gone downhill since his daughter died (as it would); he then catches his wife cheating and it isn’t until a girl called Kate (Rachel Cook) shows up wanting him to take her on a hunt that things seem to turn around. That is short-lived when the pair end up becoming hunted by the mercenaries looking for their briefcase of money.
I liked Rib Hillis as Jackson as he has that old-fashioned square jawed hero look and is also a bit of a surly bastard who is generally pretty rude to Kate at first. What’s hilarious is that Rachel Cook spends most of the movie in her underwear and it’s so gratuitous it’s hard not to smile… while enjoying it thoroughly.
Some of the performances aren’t the greatest and one character overacts horribly towards the end where he’s just plain annoying. I prefer my villains to speak quieter rather than just shouting all the time. Speaking of which the villains are all so one note I couldn’t even tell you any of their names, so it’s hard to get emotionally involved in a story if you know nothing about the antagonists.
After the opening it takes a while for anything to happen with maybe a few scenes that could have been trimmed for pacing reasons but the film is only 90 minutes long, so it’s hardly a slog to get through. It’s nicely shot with some picturesque scenery which is one of my favourite aspects.
In terms of action it’s mostly shoot-outs and a few fights towards the end but nothing especially genre changing. The script isn’t especially memorable and there aren’t too many lines I’d quote but I’ve seen worse in other low budget movies.
The biggest WTF moment in this movie is the end which I almost saw coming but not quite the way it did and it’s what makes everything else worth sitting through. Overall, Kill Shot is let down by some over-acting and the script is hardly amazing; Rachel Cook in her undies isn’t entirely unpleasant and the ending makes this worth a one-time watch.
Kill Shot (2023)
Directed by: Ari Novak
Starring: Rib Hillis, Rachel Cook, Bobby Maximus, Mara Ohara, Mark Murphy, Xian Mikol, Todd Gordon, Ari Novak, Jeff Medley, Anaya Patel, Taylor Daniel Allen, Stuart Binenstock, Tyler Kechely
Screenplay by: Ari Novak, Rib Hillis
Production Design by: Rib Hillis
Film Editing by: Ari Novak
Art Direction by: Peterson Eri
Makeup Department: Megan Anderson, Gabrielle Romans
Music by: Nick Bohun
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Well Go USA Entertainment
Release Date: August 15, 2023
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