Wrestling Planet's Shooting Range is a 'no holds barred' look at the real men involved in the sport from a uniquely 'outside the ring' perspective. The film is a documentary structured from a series of interviews conduced in a more candid environment than we're used to seeing these behemoths in. Participants include The Sandman, Vampiro, Konnan, New Jack, Chris Hamrick, and Vic Grimes.

In a nutshell, each interviewee is given the chance to tell his story – how he got to where he is and how it worked out for him. These aren't exactly happy tales of success though, as most of these men are bitter about the success that has eluded them, rather than the success (or maybe the notoriety) that they have attained. Through these vignettes we're given an interesting look into a grimier part of professional wrestling. The gloss, fireworks and bravismo of the WWE (WWF) is absent here and in place of massive spectacle matches with subplots and theatrics galore we have a half dozen jaded professionals who never quite hit the big time the way that they'd hoped that they would.

The interviews run about twenty minutes (give or take) for each wrestler but are spliced together into smaller sections and played out over a an hour and a half or so, so that we're not inundated with one persons story for too long a time. This makes for an interesting structure for the film – while on one hand it does bounce around a bit one the other hand it gives it a free flow style that actually works for it rather than against it. It also helps us pay attention and doesn't really play favorites by giving any one man more attention than the other.

Interesting highlights from the film include Konnan's discussions of the time he spent in the WCW league and how it lead him to hate the crowd and even some of his fans, Vampiro explaining the differences between wrestling in Mexico and wrestling in the United States (while all decked out in full corpse paint style make up), and New Jack (sporting quite the nasty scar on his forehead – a work related injury!) explaining the how's and why's of getting in the ring with someone while under the influence of drugs, and how it came to be that he actually killed a man in his personal life.

The main draw back of the film is that there is next to no wrestling footage at all in the entire thing. It's all well and good to hear the wrestlers tell their stories, while many of the men interviewed here are quite bitter they do have interesting tales to tell, but without anything interesting in the way of visuals the movie becomes a series of talking heads. Had the filmmakers done something to spice up the way that the movie looked, it could have been a better production than it turned out to be – the content was there for a good documentary on these guys, too bad the look fell short.

Video:

The documentary looks like it was shot with a camcorder, albeit one of reasonable quality. There's some mild video noise and a few times the image looks a little fuzzy but most of the time it does remain pretty consistent and clean. Color definition isn't the greatest but the picture lets us see what's going on without any serious issues aside from those normally associated with shot on video productions. It's not film quality, but a production of this caliber really doesn't need to be.