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2007, USA, Canada

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Actors:

Mark Wahlberg		Bob Lee Swagger
Michael Pena		Nick Memphis
Danny Glover		Colonel Isaac Johnson
Kate Mara		Sarah Fenn
Elias Koteas		Jack Payne
Rhona Mitra		Alourdes Galindo
Ned Beatty		Senator Charles F. Meachum
Jonathan Walker		Louis Dobbler
Justin Louis		Howard Purnell
Tate Donovan		Russ Turner
Rade Serbedzija		Michael Sandor
Alan C. Peterson		Officer Stanley Timmons
Lane Garrison		Donnie Fenn
Zak Santiago		Senior Agent
Michael-Ann Connor		Junior Agent

Directors:

Antoine Fuqua |

Certification:

New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Germany:18 | Argentina:16 | Ireland:16 ... show all

IMDB Rating:

6.80 out of 10 (7706 votes)

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Taglines:	1: Yesterday was about honor. Today is about justice.
Plot Summary:	Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.
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Shooter movie review

posted on 8 December 2007

It’s about here that I stopped taking mental notes on what’s wrong with the movie “Shooter” and went along for the ride. This political espionage thriller is so extremely silly, so stupidly fun that even with all of its logistical nightmares, the performances are right on the mark and the direction by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, King Arthur) keeps things right on track. And surprisingly enough, I found myself richly entertained with the storyline.

Take the name of Bobby Lee Swagger. Say it out loud if you want. Mark Walhberg plays this character, a special-ops sniper who is framed for an attack on the president’s life. You see, back in earlier days, he was in Ethiopia firing perfect shots at bad guys miles away in moving cars, and has decided to retire after one of his close partners was killed. Cut to two weeks prior to the attempt, and he now lives in solitude in the mountains, but has been asked to help foil an assassination on the president’s life that Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) and his grunting partner Jack Payne (Elias Koteas), both close to the white house, believe will happen in Philadelphia.

When Swagger finds himself in Philly checking things out, the king of Ethiopia is killed instead, Swagger is shot twice, escapes and becomes a cross of Jason Bourne and Dr. Richard Kimble. His only allies include Sarah Fenn, who is the widow of Swagger’s partner and agrees to help, and Nick Memphis (Michael Pena), an FBI agent who quickly sees a conspiracy after running into Swagger and seeing that there is more to this than once thought.

I guess you’re not supposed to ask how Swagger comes back from two bullet wounds so easily. Being trained in special ops means you will survive faster, I suppose, and I recall Jason Bourne getting shot in “The Bourne Supremacy”, pouring vodka on his wound and then going on an insane car chase at the end of that film. So I guess I have to go with it. Fuqua’s direction is so fast-paced anyway that it seems silly to linger on these questions.

It also helps how easily Mark Wahlberg gets into the role. He’s had such amazing work in films like “Boogie Nights”, “I Heart Huckabee’s” and the recent “The Departed” and this originally seemed like a paycheque role to me. But he plays the part for real, adapts and figures out problems realistically, and even has time to rub shoulders with the ridiculously cute Kate Mara (who plays a wife that was going to become a nurse but finds herself weak at the sight of blood, but has no problem shooting the heck out of the bad guys and wearing revealing clothing while doing it). So it’s a good performance, you see.

As the bad guys, both Danny Glover and Elias Koteas are very effective. I can see Koteas in this part, but I was surprised to see Glover, who has played super-nice roles in “Grand Canyon” and nice cop Murtaugh and, even at 60 years old, makes for one tough baddie. I was also impressed by Ned Beatty, who comes later into the film as a senator (you know this because he’s always throwing his job title at someone else) who also has some ties to the conspiracy.

Throughout all of the film, there is a level of violence that is, oddly, a relief from all of the watered down PG-13 violence that we have seen in film in the past few years. “Shooter” contains a copious amount of head shots, blood spraying and decapations that give the film a deliriously entertaining look and feel that surprised me in how much I was caught up in the proceedings. I won’t remember this film for long, but it’s a lot of fun while it lasts. Think of light beer. Comes on strong and then…it’s gone.