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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 3588
Released: June 26, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service, Swagger is double-crossed again. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Swagger begins his revenge, which will take down the most powerful people in the country.
Description of Shooter (Widescreen Edition):
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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good action packed movie 
2009-11-22 - Shooter is a solid movie about a former U.S. Miltary Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, who is abandoned by the army and left for dead in Africa.
He returns home and makes a living in a secluded part of the country with almost zero contact to the outside world. He's tabbed by Danny Glover, a former purple heart winner himself, to plot an assassination attempt against the President in order to prevent the assassination.
Swagger scouts the locations where the President is going to speak and finally figures out that the only possible place is in Philadelphia. He is with Glover's outfit at the time to prevent the assassination only to unknowingly become part of the plot.
Swagger gets away and slowly starts exposing the truth behind the attempted murder, but not of the President, but of an Ethopian priest who was speaking before the president.
On his way, Swagger runs into Michael Pena, who plays FBI Agent Nick Memphis. Memphis is fresh out of graduation from the Academy and is suddenly thrown into presidental detail? all be it, from a very long distance away.
Shooter is a back and forth action movie with a deep story that you have to pay attention to. My only problem with the film was the acting of Michael Pena, at the very beginning it's very corny and fake.
-He's fresh out of the Academy and all of a sudden on Presidential detail?
-He's pretty much figured out within a day that Swagger didn't shoot anybody
-He's found out who or what shot the Priest
the other thing i didn't like, and this more than anything, was the fact that the "shooter" of the priest is exposed way to early in the film.
The viewer should have been left to ponder who or what did the shooting rather than giving it away so soon in the film.
but overall, Shooter is a good Saturday Night film, well worth watching.
Shooter DVD
2009-11-15 - Received item earlier than expected. Item came as described. Have had no problems. Great Transaction!
SHOOTER 
2009-11-04 - OUTSTANDING EXCAPE MOVIE. HAD THE ORIGINAL IN DVD FORMAT AND PURCHASED THE BLUE-RAY VERSION SO I COULD ENJOY THE EVENT BETTER.
Shooter
2009-10-18 - I love the movie, lots of action and the good guy got the bad guys. Just the wasy it should be.
The Shooter DVD
2009-09-23 - This is a really good suspense movie. The seller is excellent to deal with.
