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Shooter, 2007

Shooter

English

USA

Rating:7.1
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Profile of Shooter

Shooter can be described as exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around a political conspiracy, a frame-up, and conspiracies. 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: 8 March 2007
Runtime: 124 min

Cast and Crew

Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger in Shooter
Mark Wahlberg

as Bob Lee Swagger

Michael Pena as Nick Memphis in Shooter
Michael Pena

as Nick Memphis

Rhona Mitra as Alourdes Galindo in Shooter
Rhona Mitra

as Alourdes Galindo

Photos

Shooter (2007)
Shooter (2007)

Clips

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Shooter: Official Trailer
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Shooter: Official Trailer

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.
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.

Users Reviews

loved it
wow i dont know where to start this film i just loved. the storyline was predictable to me but most are nowadays anyways. the acting was brilliant and Mark Wahlberg was perfect in the movie. the writing and directing just really connects u to the...
Mark Wahlberg is good as a Matt Damon/Jason-Bourne-type character. His character is cool enough, and does some impressive action. I liked that they showed the audience all the skills, strategizing and meticulousness that go into being snipers. The...
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