NIGHTSHOOTER

Screenplay by Thurman Thonson

Disappointing thriller about a vigilante news stringer applies a hand-held aesthetic for tension and immediacy, but there isn’t much of a story here, certainly not a tale of redemption; it’s about a low-life criminal named Stu Broom, who’ll do anything to break news stories for a local TV station and get paid. Writer seriously undercooks his concept and offers an erratic plot drizzled in speed and car crashes mixed with the public’s insatiable appetite for human suffering. In this hybrid hand-held action-thriller, our nightshooter is a societal reject, mentally unhinged, hard to like, period. For Antwon Legion, there’s never a moment where Stu Broom acts heroically, no partner to bounce off, no romantic peach to pursue. Mostly, it’s about reckless ambition and cynical darkness. No humor, no lightness of being, not a pleasant feeling when this script ends. A shower sounds good right now*.