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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Mar 23, 2007
Running Time: 126 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Bob Lee Swagger, a former Marine Corps sniper, 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.
cast + crew
Director
Bob Lee Swagger
Sarah Fenn
Nick Memphis
Alourdes Galindo
Colonel Isaac Johnson
Donnie Fenn
Dave Simmons
Ben Davis
Jack Payne
Frank Russo
Screenplay
Novel as Source Material
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Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Producer
reviews
PETER TRAVERS -
March 21, 2007
Suspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes on more bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade as hard-ass action escapism. Props to Mark Wahlberg, an actor whose fierce gaze and sneaky humor can carry a movie over the rockiest terrain. Even one that plays like a shotgun marriage between The Fugitive and The Bourne Identity. Wahlberg, who finally got that Oscar nomination (for The Departed) that he also deserved for Boogie Nights and I Heart Huckabees, plays…
Solid acting and brave stuntmen elevate Shooter to a so-so movie--but yes, it needed to be elevated to get there. In other words: for hardcore action junkies looking for a quick fix only. Story For 15 minutes or so, there is an actual story in Shooter--which, to the film's credit, is about 15 minutes more than expected. Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is a former Marine scout-sniper dynamo who lost his best friend/spotter (the legally troubled Lane Garrison) three years earlier in combat in… |
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