Shooter [Blu-ray]:Shooter [Blu-ray]

Shooter [Blu-ray] From:Mark Wahlberg , Michael Peña , Danny Glover , Kate Mara , Elias Koteas , Paramount , Antoine Fuqua ,
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361300702
Format: AC-3
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Weight: 300 hundredths-pounds
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 50 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 670 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-03-23

Product Description:

Paramount Shooter (Blu-ray)
Get ready for edge-of-your-seat thrills as Mark Wahlberg ignites the screen in his most compelling role yet: the "Shooter." When respected former Marine scout sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is pressed into service to stop an assassination attempt against the President, the unthinkable occurs: he's double-crossed and framed for the attempt. Determined to prove his innocence,the rogue shooter is now in a high-tension race from every law enforcement agency in the country and a shadowy organization that wants him dead. From"Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua comes a gripping film co-starring Danny Glover ("Lethal Weapon 4") and Michael Pena ("World Trade Center"). Joel Siegel of Good Morning America proclaims that "'Shooter' is a thriller ...with a ton of white-knuckle action.".

Customer Reviews:

You're on target to lose 125 minutes of your life., 2008-09-06
Rented this to counter-balance wife's choice of "What Happens in Vegas" (that was better than expected). That the people who produced this "hit piece" were going to ignore facts and try to brow beat you into believing their "anti-America, anti-Republican" message.

SPOILERS: It begins with a sniper team (supposedly Marines) covering an extraction team. The spotter takes the time to gaze at a picture of his cute wife and ponder the ethics and purpose of their mission while they literally chew their cud. The action starts with Mark Wahlberg knocking off targets with casual ease but when a larger force "appears" they call for backup; especially when the bad guys manage to set up mortars ranged onto their position instantaneously. At the Army base, some civilian pulls the plug on the supposedly covert operation by saying that they will get out on their own and to break camp immediately. The spotter gets gunned down by a helicopter (Why are they always making runs rather than hovering?) Oh whoa is "Swagger" (why not just name the character Johnny Bigc*ck?). Suddenly it's three years later and Swagger has hair longer than my mother, living in the rugged Northwest. Danny Glover sets him up by telling him that he alone can help them counteract a threat against the president in a manner that'll leave your four year old scratching their head. Swagger is referred to as a Sgt., SSgt. and a Gunny, throughout the film; supposedly he "retired" right after he got back to the States. WTF? The movie quickly dissolves into a farce in which characters are made to do one thing one scene and another the next without any logical connection. Non-subtle digs at Republicans (Presidential portraits in Glover's "office"), the current administration ("They thought there were WMD's in Iraq!" one character quips), "Big Oil" (that first operation was to cover a group of "contractors" killing off a village that refused to move when "we" decided to run a pipeline through their location), corporations ("There's no head [of the bad guys] to cut off. It's a corporation.") and the military (I hope there wasn't any military advisor on this POS as they'd likely now be suicide candidate). The ridiculousness reaches higher and higher as the film goes on... Swagger easily evading capture from countless law enforcement types in broad daylight, running a straight line across open fields without getting hit by whithering gunfire (ala' Arnold in "Commando"), going MacGuyver in local supermarkets, repulsing two cops and their German Shepard like Jason Bourne but with the added kicker of sticking one cops' arm into the jaws of the attacking dog! A certain amount of belief needs to be suspended when watching any movie, I know, but we're supposed to buy into the notion that Swagger's dead partner's wife is a hot, young thing that is a single school teacher in fictitious Keen, KY after three years, wears skimpy clothes when answering the door and can perform surgery (despite the fact that becoming a nurse was her dead husband's dream, not hers due to a dislike of the sight of blood!). The "hero-done-wrong" in these type movies always receive supporting aid and in this one it's provided by an at first bumbling FBI agent who then is an authority on ancient battlefield medical remedies and later, with a quick flashbang lesson, is, Ta-Da! a sniper, too!!!

I could not stand the headache this garbage pile brought on, went to the head and promptly produced something better. Before this, "Independence Day" (which I walked out of the theater on) was one of the worst assaults upon my intelligence. "Enemy State" ranked right up there though fortunately that was rented and quickly returned. This puts everything this movie-lover has seen to shame. I can not explain how any enjoyment could be experienced from watching this but if there was, then the makers of this film were at least partly correct: the common American is stupid, gullible and easily lead around by the nose.

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