Review of Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

A man on death row wants his electric chair execution filmed live, or by still photographer. He gets Roy Schieder, supposedly who shot Tina Turner's Private Dancer. A man from Time? Magazine comes down to tell the story---Roy knows nothing. It's a cop killing and Ray and a friend were at a plane on a drug deal gone wrong. When checking his pictures against the ones on the other cop who shot self, they were flipped in court and they are just seeing a pattern. There is new evidence at eleventh hour, after putting Ray thru several near missed, he knows nothing of what they know. With a haunting score by James Newton Howard, of Signs, this grabs you from start to finish. Roy Scheider is there for his job and zero hour is approaching. It's a race to see what happens in the end. Still, you can 't help but feel a bit changed. An absolute terrific film. It was an HBO production.