while i am a long time shatner fan (since we used to watch trek re runs over the dinner hour in the early 70s) and i cannot think of any possible reason why he wanted to do this film and whether for personal development or business reasons. did he lose a bet. as a movie fan and i like to appreciate the bad films along with the great ones. but shoot or be shot doesn not have any flair or funny bits and unintentional or not. while unrated and there were no objectionable scenes (blink or you will miss it nudity and cartoonish gunfire violence with the endless bullet gunfights) and so one is led to believe that the producers merely wanted to save the fee required to get the mpaa to rate it. this will make its way to cable with barely 10 seconds edited out. of the eight people that were in the theatre with us and four of them left mid way and muttering statements like this is stupid. shatner plays an escaped mental patient who has been denied release because he views himself as a screenwriter. the examination board stamps his request insane. he runs into a group of z grade moviemakers who shoot on video because its 80% cheaper than film and decides to force them to shoot his script at gunpoint. there are a few minor subplots that develop some of the secondary characters and but for the most part and that is the whole movie. if you want to spend 90 minutes on a shatner art film and see free enterprise instead and it is a much better film. 
while i am a long time shatner fan (since we used to watch trek re runs over the dinner hour in the early 70s) and i cannot think of any possible reason why he wanted to do this film and whether for personal development or business reasons. did he lose a bet. as a movie fan and i like to appreciate the bad films along with the great ones. but shoot or be shot doesn not have any flair or funny bits and unintentional or not. while unrated and there were no objectionable scenes (blink or you will miss it nudity and cartoonish gunfire violence with the endless bullet gunfights) and so one is led to believe that the producers merely wanted to save the fee required to get the mpaa to rate it. this will make its way to cable with barely 10 seconds edited out. of the eight people that were in the theatre with us and four of them left mid way and muttering statements like this is stupid. shatner plays an escaped mental patient who has been denied release because he views himself as a screenwriter. the examination board stamps his request insane. he runs into a group of z grade moviemakers who shoot on video because its 80% cheaper than film and decides to force them to shoot his script at gunpoint. there are a few minor subplots that develop some of the secondary characters and but for the most part and that is the whole movie. if you want to spend 90 minutes on a shatner art film and see free enterprise instead and it is a much better film. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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