America's opioid crisis would seem too dire a subject to receive shallow cinematic treatment. So it's ironic, then, that Spencer T.
Folmar's thriller suffers from not quite being exploitative enough. Shooting Heroin purports to be a serious examination of how drug addiction is decimating American communities, especially in the Rust Belt.
But watching the film go through its ponderous paces, you find yourself longing for the extreme vigilante tropes that fueled countless '70s-era thrillers.