Hunter John Moon (Sam Rockwell) is out (illegally) hunting for deer when he mistakenly shoots a young woman. Obviously not being able to call the authorities and list it as a hunting accident, he hides her body in a nearby dumpster bin. He also finds a small case full of money and decides to keep it. Unfortunately, as time goes by, he realises that someone is tormenting him and sending clues that they know what he has done so what was supposed to have been a forgotten incident by Moon, turns into a cat & mouse chase for survival.
A Single Shot is an EXTREMELY slow going movie which is such a pity because it doesn't take long for the main incident to happen. Once this happened I thought it would start to pick up but unfortunately it didn't. I mean I know there has to be character & story development but even that is slow to develop. If it's cat & mouse then it must be one hell of a slow cat because nothing of note really happens until about an hour in, and even then it still doesn't pick up.
The story itself is a good one, but it was just played out so slowly without going anywhere. I usually don't mind slow going movies if I can get into them, but this one I couldn't get into at all and what didn't help in that regard was that I could hardly understand a single word being said, even when my volume was up high. I mean it's hard to understand a lot of the dialogue when the actors have their jaws clenched together and speak through their lips in a southern State accent. Add this together with nothing much happening and it was 2 hours of boredom. Such a shame because it has a very, very decent cast as well (Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Jason Isaacs) but unfortunately even they couldn't do anything to make this film more interesting.
A Single Shot should be given a single viewing and nothing more.
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