Shooter (2007)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures Studio: Paramount Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Mar 23, 2007

Running Time: 126 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover, Lane Garrison, Mackenzie Gray, Adrian Hughes, Elias Koteas, Darrin Massey

director: Antoine Fuqua

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.

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…

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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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