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November 30, 1999
January 1, 2007
Paramount Home Video
R (Restricted)
Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena
"Excellent movie well worth the watch, Mark Wahlburg is intense!"
- AvidReader, gave it a 5/5
"better than what I thought it would be, a great action packed flick"
- dvdtrdraz, gave it a 5/5
"4.4 Great action! Edge of the seat suspense. Perfect accuracy. On target! "
- Phoenix, gave it a 4/5
"was Cool... Never thoght I would injoy it as much as I did. LOL "
- smallville, gave it a 5/5
"This is an action packed DVD. Highly recommended!"
- Switch_This!, gave it a 4/5
A movie that would not have been out of place in the run of paranoid-political thrillers of the 1970s, Shooter works an entertaining variation on the assassination picture. Mark Wahlberg, carrying over good mojo from The Departed, slides neatly into the character of Bob Lee Swagger, master marksman. Swagger has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military, having become disillusioned with his government (switching on his TV at his remote mountain cabin, he mutters, "Let's see what kind of lies they're trying to sell us today."). Ah, but the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president, so a shadowy government operative (Danny Glover) begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. From there--well, spoilers are not fair, since the movie has a few legitimate shocks and a very nice wrong-man scenario about to unfold.
A novel by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Stephen Hunter gives the movie a logical spine, even if the premise itself is the stuff of conspiracy theorists. Wahlberg gets support from Michael Pena, as a skeptical FBI agent; Kate Mara, as a trustworthy widow; and Ned Beatty, trailing along memories of Network, as a supremely cynical Senator. Along with the well-executed action sequences (the previously unreliable director Antoine Fuqua gets it in gear here), the movie includes a few potshots at the Bush administration. No, that doesn't put Shooter at the level of The Parallax View or All the President's Men, but it provides some tang along with the flying bullets. --Robert Horton
Beyond Shooter
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