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sheep233

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An average action movie but still pretty entertaining. The ending is weak and there's a little too much profanity but still a good action movie with cool explosions and shooting.

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Posted sep 8, 2008 7:18 am pt

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Mark Wahlberg's performance in this film is really good. It is one of those films that turns out to be different. It has a slight action movie genre but also has a very politcal side to it with the attempt on the president. Danny Glover plays a...
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Mark Wahlberg's performance in this film is really good. It is one of those films that turns out to be different. It has a slight action movie genre but also has a very politcal side to it with the attempt on the president. Danny Glover plays a very good villian in this film. When I say villan i mean politcal villian. He shows very well how the goverment can be corrupt. Overall this film is a very good action, thriller. Definatley one for the guys, with all the gun talk.

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Posted aug 21, 2008 1:28 am pt

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Mark Wahlberg's performance in this film is really good. It is one of those films that turns out to be different. It has a slight action movie genre but also has a very politcal side to it with the attempt on the president. Danny Glover plays a...
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Mark Wahlberg's performance in this film is really good. It is one of those films that turns out to be different. It has a slight action movie genre but also has a very politcal side to it with the attempt on the president. Danny Glover plays a very good villian in this film. When I say villan i mean politcal villian. He shows very well how the goverment can be corrupt. Overall this film is a very good action, thriller. Definatley one for the guys, with all the gun talk.

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Posted aug 21, 2008 1:28 am pt

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Wow… what a movie!!! I love it, it was so exciting, and some bits were a little boring, but other then that, a great movie to watch.

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Posted nov 27, 2007 3:43 pm pt

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Shooter is a very decent action flick, although some parts seemed very draggy and a bit too long, Shooter delivers great action sequences and well put out story, along with two very good actors, Pena and Walhberg did a fantastic job. I do hope...
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Shooter is a very decent action flick, although some parts seemed very draggy and a bit too long, Shooter delivers great action sequences and well put out story, along with two very good actors, Pena and Walhberg did a fantastic job. I do hope there will be some sort of sequal.

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Posted sep 25, 2007 6:28 am pt

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I watched this film on a plane when I was going on holiday and even with a small screen, dodgy sound and a kid kicking the back of my chair the whole way through, this was still quite a good film. The plot may not be all that original, but it...
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I watched this film on a plane when I was going on holiday and even with a small screen, dodgy sound and a kid kicking the back of my chair the whole way through, this was still quite a good film. The plot may not be all that original, but it keeps your interest and it has Mark Wahlberg in so who cares!?

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Posted sep 2, 2007 3:11 am pt

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I gave 4.5 of 5.0 because there's something missing. I don't care, as long as the movie is nice! Two thumbs up!

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Posted aug 16, 2007 1:22 pm pt

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Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is one of the few snipers in the world whose sharpshooting abilities allow him to "take out a target from a mile away." He reluctantly leaves a self-imposed exile from his isolated Wyoming mountain home at the...
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Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is one of the few snipers in the world whose sharpshooting abilities allow him to "take out a target from a mile away." He reluctantly leaves a self-imposed exile from his isolated Wyoming mountain home at the request of retired Colonel Isaac Johnson (Glover) and a team of agents. Johnson appeals to his expertise and patriotism to help track down a purported presidential assassin who plans on shooting the president from a great distance with a high powered rifle. Johnson gives him a list of potential locations that the president is scheduled to visit.

Swagger assesses each of the locations given to him by Johnson and determines that a site in Philadelphia would be most conducive to a long range assassination attempt. He passes this information to Johnson, who purportedly arranges for a response.

In Philadelphia, the Ethiopian archbishop is instead assassinated, while standing next to the president, during a speaking engagement, while Swagger is consulting with the group of Johnson's agents to find the rumored assassin. Swagger is immediately shot twice by a police officer, but manages to escape, realizing that he has been framed. The agents tell the police and public that Swagger is the shooter, and stage a massive manhunt for the injured sniper. A lengthy chase scene takes place, but Swagger manages to escape and take refuge with Donnie Fenn's widow Sarah Fenn (Mara). She saves his life by removing the bullets embedded in Swagger's body, and a healing Swagger later convinces her to help him contact novice FBI agent Nick Memphis (Peña). Memphis was blamed for allowing Swagger's escape, and in the process of being disciplined for negligence has independently learned that Swagger may have been framed for the assassination by rogue elements of an unnamed federal agency, possibly the CIA.

Once the rogue agents realize their secret has been compromised, they kidnap Memphis and attempt to stage his faked suicide. Swagger tails the agents and kills Memphis' captors. Swagger and Memphis then join forces against the rogue agents. Together they plot to capture who they think is the real assassin, an ex-sniper allied with Colonel Johnson. Once they find him, he commits suicide after revealing that the Ethiopian archbishop was actually the real target of the assassins, and he was murdered in order to prevent him from speaking out against U.S. involvement in the genocide of an Ethiopian village. The genocide occurred in order to advance the aims of a consortium of American corporate interests headed by corrupt U.S. Senator Charles Meachum (Beatty). Swagger tape records the ex-sniper's confession as proof of the involvement in the African genocide, and he and Memphis escape from the trap set to ensnare them by the agents and their consortium allies.

Meanwhile, other rogue agents have found and captured Sarah Fenn in order to entrap Swagger. With his new evidence and cat-and-mouse strategy, Swagger and Memphis are able to rescue her when Colonel Johnson and Senator Meachum arrange a meeting to exchange their hostage for Swagger's evidence of their wrongdoing. After killing several enemy snipers in an isolated mountain range, Swagger and Memphis finally surrender to the FBI. Later appearing in a closed meeting with the head of the FBI and the United States Attorney General present, he clears his name by loading a round into his rifle (which is present as evidence as it was supposedly used in the killing), he then aims the rifle at the Colonel and pulls the trigger, but the shot isn't released. Swagger explains that every time he leaves his house, he replaces the firing pins from all his rifles with slightly shorter pins, thus rendering them unable to fire until he replaces them again. Unfortunately, although Swagger is exonerated, there is no solid evidence to convict Colonel Johnson and he walks free. Afterwards, Swagger murders both the Colonel and the Senator in the Senator's vacation house, as well as one of the Colonel's aides and two bodyguards, before planting a weapon on the Colonel, blowing up the house, getting into a car with Fenn and driving away.

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Posted aug 14, 2007 12:36 pm pt

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this was a great movie i really liked it it was one that i tell my friends about it was great

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Posted aug 10, 2007 1:22 am pt

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It's a 21st century action movie. That tells you all you need to know. All of the ingredients are there:
Invulnerable action hero, wrongly accused of something-or-the-other, who goes to battle to clear his name;
Black, Latino or...
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It's a 21st century action movie. That tells you all you need to know. All of the ingredients are there:
Invulnerable action hero, wrongly accused of something-or-the-other, who goes to battle to clear his name;
Black, Latino or Asian sidekick;
Babe-in distress;
Shadowy government agents
Big-a$$ guns
Big-a$$ bombs

Whip firmly into a credulity-stretching souffle of a plot. Overcook dialogue until suitably pulpy. Bake for about one-half hour too long, remove from oven and sprinkle with implausible ending. Best served with lots of popcorn.

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Posted aug 2, 2007 12:30 pm pt

• [+] Village Voice
  
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  Shooter is a generically titled studio action picture that turns out to be a surprisingly deft satire about Americans' loss of faith in their government following the 2000 election, the 9/11 attacks, and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Shooter does what any good thriller should accomplish - it thrills. It's fast-paced, energetic, and doesn't follow a path that seems pre-ordained from the beginning.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Wahlberg acquits himself well, and the supporting cast -- which includes pioneering rocker Levon Helm in a scene-stealing cameo as an aging gun buff who knows a thing or two about cover-ups, Ned Beatty as a corrupt politician, and a Strangelovian Rade Serbedzija -- is so strong you almost wish the film were longer so they could have more screen time.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  The movie's politics may miss their mark, but its thrills are dead-on.

  by Peter Debruge | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  Unravels a bit heading toward its finale, as buildings explode and characters are forced to explain themselves and their nefarious motives. But the payoff at the end - at once kind of radical and gratuitous - delivers a wallop.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
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  Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude -- all in their 50s or 60s -- got too old to execute the leg lifts necessary to kick bad guys in the butt.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  70
  If the movie only lavished as much thought and care on its characters as it does on each intricate set piece, Shooter might have been a classic.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  Carrying Shooter through its difficulties is, finally, not its crisp action sequences and definitely not the torture. It's Wahlberg's performance, which is the film's most old-fashioned element, and its best.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  This maximalist approach can tax the nerves, though it has the benefit of keeping you on alert. It's also pretty enjoyable. Mr. Fuqua, who happens to be surprisingly good with actors, does have a knack for chaos.

  by Manohla Dargis | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  It's a story that can be transplanted from genre to genre, because we never grow tired of it, which is to say that it fits snugly into the paranoid drift of American movies, and the value we place on one honest man with a gun.

  by Scott Eyman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
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  The timing couldn't be better for a thriller that focuses on assassination, international war scandals and U.S. agencies of enormous influence and wildly varying competence.

  by Michael Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  A stylish but essentially businesslike smash-and-crasher.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  Like most modern action films, Shooter is too explicit, more interested in mayhem than motive.

  by Stephen Cole | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
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  It does move along at a nice clip, and delivers exactly what belligerent action fans on both sides of the political aisle want -- a wholly admirable figure blowing up a lot of bad s---.

  by Glenn Kenny | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
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  Suspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes more bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade as hard-ass action escapism.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »