Review of Long Shot (2017) by Aditya M — 25 Jul 2018
This documentary would be great if it was what it purported to be. Spoilers to follow. The doc is supposed to show how a man falsely accused of murder is exonerated because he was at a Dodger game and caught on film during the filming of an episode of Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
Now, I love the Dodgers and I like Larry David, but what ticked me off was the fact that the defendant was at the game, and they proved as such, it was ultimately irrelevant to the case. Ultimately it was the man's cell phone that exonerated him.
If I had been the judge in this case, I would've been tempted to hold the Defence attorney in contempt for wasting the court's time. All he have had to do was check to see what time the game finished and the time of the murder and he would've seen that being at the game was no alibi at all.
People in the film seem to conveniently gloss over this. In short, it left me feeling in contempt for the film. It was a gaping plot hole in a documentary.
This review of Long Shot (2017) was written by Aditya M on 25 Jul 2018.
Long Shot has generally received positive reviews.
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