Shoot to Kill (known outside North America as Deadly Pursuit) is a 1988 American buddy cop action thriller film[3] directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Sidney Poitier (in his first role in eleven years), Tom Berenger, Clancy Brown, Andrew Robinson, and Kirstie Alley.

The FBI questions him and learns the man's wife is being held hostage at their home by a brutal extortionist who demands the store's diamonds for her life.

Convinced that the extortionist killed the man and stole his identity, Stantin learns that a fishing party led by local fishing guide Sarah Rennell went into the forest from the mine, and he enlists her partner Jonathan Knox to help find them; Knox, who wanted to search for Sarah by himself, reluctantly agrees.

Stantin and Knox arrive in Vancouver, where they learn that Steve and Sarah broke into a home to rest and call a diamond broker.

After a brief shootout, Steve carjacks an SUV and leads Stantin, Knox, and the Vancouver Police Department on a car chase.

When Steve runs away and takes a passenger and her children hostage, Stantin draws his attention and is shot multiple times.

[4] Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that it "marks the return of Sidney Poitier after a long absence from the screen, and a reappearance of good old-fashioned storytelling technique as well.

"[5] In a three-star review, Roger Ebert recalled that it was "yet another example, rather late in the day, of the buddy movie, that most dependable genre from the early 1970s.