while i be a long time shatner fan ( since we use to watch trek re run over the dinner hour in the early 70 ) and i can not think of any possible reason why he want to do this film and whether for personal development or business reason . do he lose a bet . a a movie fan and i like to appreciate the bad film along with the great one . but shoot or be shoot doesn not have any flair or funny bit and unintentional or not . while unrated and there be no objectionable scene ( blink or you will miss it nudity and cartoonish gunfire violence with the endless bullet gunfight ) and so one be lead to believe that the producer merely want to save the fee require to get the mpaa to rate it . this will make it way to cable with barely 10 second edit out . of the eight people that be in the theatre with u and four of them leave mid way and muttering statement like this be stupid . shatner play an escaped mental patient who have be deny release because he view himself a a screenwriter . the examination board stamp his request insane . he run into a group of z grade moviemakers who shoot on video because it 80 % cheap than film and decides to force them to shoot his script at gunpoint . there be a few minor subplots that develop some of the secondary character and but for the most part and that be the whole movie . if you want to spend 90 minute on a shatner art film and see free enterprise instead and it be a much good film .