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Mood:
- SuspensefulExcitingRough
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Plot:
- SoldierManhuntOn the RunFrame UpPolitical ConspiracyChases and RacesDishonestyMilitary more...
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Genres:
- ActionThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- USA
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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- SeriousRealisticFast
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- ProfanityStrong Violent Content
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Shooter , 2007
English
USA
Profile of Shooter
Shooter can be described as exciting, suspenseful, and rough. The plot revolves around a manhunt, a political conspiracy, and a frame-up. The main genres are thriller and action. In approach, Shooter is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. It is located in the USA. Shooter takes place in contemporary times. It is based on a book. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that Shooter involves strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of Shooter
Antoine Fuqua, the director of such action movies as TRAINING DAY and THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, takes on government conspiracies in SHOOTER. Based on the book POINT OF IMPACT by Stephen Hunter, SHOOTER focuses on Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a former Marine scout sniper who has retired to a log cabin in the middle of the woods after a supposedly standard mission got out of hand in Ethiopia. Three years later, Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) shows up with two flunkies, trying to convince Swagger to help them thwart a plot to assassinate the president. Honor and duty get the better of him, and Swagger agrees to participate--only to find out that he has been set up, sending him on the run so he can discover who was really behind the shooting. With the whole world looking for him, the only people willing to help him are the widow of his former partner, Sarah (Kate Mara), and Nick Memphis (Michael Pena), a young FBI agent who refuses to stop investigating the case. Wahlberg, nominated for an Oscar for his supporting performance in THE DEPARTED, is excellent in the lead role of a complicated man who had turned his back on society, only to be thrust right back into the middle of it. Glover is solid as his arch-nemesis, who treats the situation as if it's some kind of game. SHOOTER is an action-filled suspense thriller that races through the streets of Philadelphia, New York, Kentucky, and Washington, DC, as well as Ethiopia in a violent search for answers.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 23 March 2007 |
| Runtime: | 124 min |
Cast and Crew
as Bob Lee Swagger
as Nick Memphis
as Alourdes Galindo
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Critics Reviews
Time
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.
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- by: Richard Corliss
Los Angeles Times
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.
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- by: Kenneth Turan
Users Reviews
I was surprised to see Mark Wahlberg's character framed for an attempted presidential assignation. For such a smart gunny, his instincts were really off the mark. However, I really enjoyed watching how he survived and brought the bad guys to justice...
- 18.April.2009
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- by: kimperry
- kimperry rated this movie
10/10Must See
If you miss Stallone's Rambo then rent this and you'll be happy. While it's full of action and kept me awake alot of what takes place is cheezy and redundant. This could have been a good movie and I mean it COULD have been. This movie would have...
- 23.March.2009
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- by: prozac pop
- prozac pop rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
