Shooter (2007)

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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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