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If you liked Mark Wahlberg in the Bourne Films, You will like this movie, 2008-08-23
If you liked Mark Wahlberg in the Bourne movies, you will most likely enjoy this movie. It is action packed and movies quickly except for a few preachy moments at the end. As a person who has enjoyed long range target shooting and am familiar with the Barret 50 Cal capabilities, I know that the shots in this film were all realistic.
2 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Hollywoodimess Turkeyanus, 2008-08-23
"The Shooter" is a movie obviously intended for 15 y.o. schoolboys and Michael Moore/Oliver Stone aficionados. It is truly the worst movie that I've seen in some time. It relies entirely on old Hollywood standbys--fatal wounds that the hero recovers from; car chase scenes; heroes that never miss; bad guys who always miss; sinister government plots; sinister FBI characters etc.
It's an Oliver Stone film on crack. There are echoes of "JFK" i.e. the three guys on the grassy knoll are buried in Terlingua. "Hey, I've still got the shovel!" There are even echoes of the Ruby Ridge massacre. Our 'hero' is living way out in the woods. The FBI shoots his dog. Man, man, man, really original stuff.
The plot is far too complex, far too complex to follow, but, not to worry, the director explains it in the end. The government killed 400 villagers in Ethiopia so that an oil pipeline could go through [get that, folks, evil oil]. Now we don't quite know why they were killed but apparently it's so other villagers will get the message and just get up and move away. Logical. Our hero and his shooter friend, shoot Ethiopian retaliation forces but of this I was never clear. Maybe they were they were shooting the bad guys who did the village murders and our hero, in turn, murders them as a cover-up. Not to worry. Our hero doesn't know who he's shooting, either, and, the government, rather than extract or heroes, shoots them up with a helicopter and his friend is killed. Of course, as we are watching all this we have no clue as to what's happening...we have to wade through hours and hours of this turkey dreck hoping that maybe somebody will make sense of it. Truly, they never really do.
Our hero, after his return, is intelligently employed to detect a long range sniper trying to kill the President. It's at an outdoor Presidential review featuring the archbishop of Ethiopia [is there an archbishop of Ethiopia?]. Boom! Goes a shot which we learn later, deliberately misses the President and kills the Ethiopian. Perfect good sense. Suddenly the cops are shooting our hero--again, we have no way of knowing why. Despite the fact that the hero is shot through the axillary artery, which would have killed him in minutes, and through the gut, which would have disabled him in hours, and killed him in a day or two, our super-hero soldiers on to kill thousands and thousands of bad guys [make that agents and U.S. soldiers] with rifles, pistols, machine guns, garrots, karote and miscellaneous bombs.
Wow!!! What a guy! And he does all this while mumbling his lines which adds to the mystery of the whole thing.
Now, a word for the writers, directors and producers, if they ever read these things. Why in H... can't you use just a tad of originality? Why does it always have to be all this Hollywood BS and tripe? Are you imbeciles or just younger than 22? Do you still have problems with acne? Who are you going to vote for in November? Yeah, I know, it's just a joke. The whole stinkin' thing is a joke. Get your stuff together, boys and girls. You have nothing to lose but your American Civil Liberties card.
Ron Braithwaite
+1/2 - Who Doesn't Love Mark Wahlberg!?, 2008-08-07
I may not know a thing about snipers, guns or warfare, but have watched a lot of movies, and this one isn't half bad! This movie gave me plenty of action, limited love story (I don't like a lot of romance in my action movies), as well as some well planned set ups and a puzzling story line (you know where you have to put the pieces together to figure out how it is going to end).
Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is a retired military sniper who ends up being set up for an assassination attempt on the president. Swagger is then on the run, which includes some high-speed chases and military know-how such as home remedies for removing bullets (he gets shot at a couple of times, no biggie!). He goes after people in search of finding clues, and carefully plans his way to discovering who is behind the assassination and why.
As much as I would love to give Wahlberg a 4, I have to deduct a half of a point for the rest of the cast's mediocre acting. Also, at times I thought I was watching The Bourne Identity, Mark is similar looking to Matt Damon in this movie, with the same "I am not going to smile throughout this entire movie, take me serious" look. In my opinion it is worth purchasing if you get a good price for it.
2 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Mumblin' Marky and friends shoot down 2 hours of your life, 2008-08-04
It's a little bit Clint Eastwood, a little bit MacGuyver, a little bit Rambo, and a whole lotta BS. It's Bob Lee Swagger, played with gritty resolve by Mark Wahlberg. From the angry scowl to the pained grimace, he's got all the dramatic bases covered. It is impossible to understand about 75% of his dialogue because he speaks in a very rapid mumble, but since we have seen these scenarios in a thousand other movies, we really don't need to hear him clearly, to understand what's going on. Space does not permit me to detail all the ridiculously implausible situations and impossible exploits in this high-octane action flick. Wahlberg is a patriotic super-soldier with almost supernatural abilities, who gets double crossed by his government. When he gets set up as a patsy by a team of shadow-government assassins, salvation comes in the form of his fallen buddy's girlfriend, a doe-eyed young beauty played by Ms. Mara. He has been shot to pieces, but sends her to Walgreens with a list of 12 common household items, which she then uses to sew him back together and nurse him back to health, although she is not a nurse but just a humble third grade teacher (who happens to live in a home that no twenty-something third-grade teacher in the South could ever afford, but be that as it may....)
Swagger is then primed and ready to seek revenge against the villains who betrayed him, including one played by Danny Glover. (We know that Mr. Glover is playing a bad guy because his voice is hoarse and raspy and he never smiles), and an evil senator played by Ned Beatty (we know that Mr. Beatty is a bad senator because he is old and white). This is when the MacGuyver-like devices are constructed with common items hurriedly purchased at the hardware store. It is not clear how the expensive items are paid for, or why the hardware store would have high explosives and high-tech in-the-ear two-way communications devices, but be that as it may.... we then have more helicopters, more heads being blown off, a tape-recorded confession, a secret meeting or two, an arm or two being shot off, etc. Need I elaborate further?
If you are a 14 year old male and thirsty for some blood and explosions, check it out. Otherwise, you might want to pass, because you may find it very hard to suspend your disbelief for a solid two hours. The film critic from the L.A. Times owes me some money, because it was on his recommendation that I let two hours of my life get shot down in flames like an evil black helicopter by Jimmy Lee Swaggart, er uh I mean Bob Lee Swagger. Praise the lord and pass the ammo, America.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Shooter, 2008-07-27
Great movie. Good action and great plot. Not quite used to seeing Danny Glover play the bad guy, but he did and excellent job. Even the women I know that have seen this say it is a great thriller and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Dale Morse
Fort Worth, Texas
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