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Shooter [Blu-ray] [2007]
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | A movie that would not have been out of place in the run of paranoid-political thrillers of the 1970s, Shooter works an entertaining variation on the assassination picture. Mark Wahlberg, carrying over good mojo from The Departed, slides neatly into the character of Bob Lee Swagger, master marksman. Swagger has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military, having become disillusioned with his government (switching on his TV at his remote mountain cabin, he mutters, "Let's see what kind of lies they're trying to sell us today."). Ah, but the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president, so a shadowy government operative (Danny Glover) begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. From there--well, spoilers are not fair, since the movie has a few legitimate shocks and a very nice wrong-man scenario about to unfold. A novel by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Stephen Hunter gives the movie a logical spine, even if the premise itself is the stuff of conspiracy theorists. Wahlberg gets support from Michael Pena, as a skeptical FBI agent; Kate Mara, as a trustworthy widow; and Ned Beatty, trailing along memories of Network, as a supremely cynical Senator. Along with the well-executed action sequences (the previously unreliable director Antoine Fuqua gets it in gear here), the movie includes a few potshots at the Bush administration. No, that doesn't put Shooter at the level of The Parallax View or All the President's Men, but it provides some tang along with the flying bullets. --Robert Horton | |
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| | didnt expect this movie to be so good , watched it three times in four days , effects brilliant, blue ray fantastic .
| | Don't waste your money on this... | |
| | This is the worst movie I saw in long long time. The actors are an absolute disaster with very bad performances. It is a pity to see a good actor like Danny Glover wasting his time in this class C movie. Mark Wahlberg is a stone face actor. His performing skills are so limited that after 10 minutes he is boring with the same face (which lasts for the entire film). The cute lady that works in the movie (she can't be defined as an actress) seems to be there because she must have paid the producers or the director with some personal favors, otherwise it is hard to understand what is she doing there, except showing her pretty face. And the action scenes are an unnecessary demonstration of pyromania with little home-made napalm bombs that produce explosions bigger than a a 500kg bomb. As said, this C class film should be a candidate to the "worst films ever made" catalog... I think that the Power Rangers movie is more realistic than this.
| | Blu-ray release is a bullseye | |
| | This very enjoyable, nicely paced action movie features a very good performance by Wahlberg as an elite marksman on the run in a one-man mission to proove his innocence and right the wrongs, ably supported by Michael Pena as an assassination witness who pursues the case in defiance of his superiors too far for his own good. It doesn't really matter that the plot is a little far-fetched - for its genre its a more than adequate romp in which the cinematography is really rather good - the end scenes are particularly impressive and not without some dark humour. On this blu-ray release, the letterbox transfer is sharp as a needle with crisp, clear 5.1 audio. I could see no regional coding on the sleeve and as its a Paramount release I'm guessing it could be a region free. Special features include a commentary by the director and several HD extras.
| | Laughably simplistic political spin mars film | |
| | Sadly, if one could have told this screenwriter to give up thinking and simply write a typical vacuous Hollywood script, this would have been excellent. The plot is solid and keep one's interest while Danny Glover and Mark Wahlberg offer decent performances. The attempts at some kind of contemporary political relevance are awkward and trite, however, really undermining the movie. It was clearly an area beyond the writer's capabilities. The insistent conspiracy theory scaffolding offers absolutely nothing original: the government is evil, all humankind is greedy, there is no justice in the 'Department of Justice' (oh the irony!), oil can explain absolutely everything that has ever happened, and democracy is not democracy - all according to the usual formula. The US government is presented as the stereotypical monolith of corruption, but our hero is there to battle the system (somehow the evil and ubiquitous 'System' let this film slip through). All this is conveyed to us with the simple moral smugness of someone who can only think in monochrome - and only on Sundays.
Ultimately, the slew of conspirational cliches - including everything from JFK to Abu Ghraib and Iraq - end up parodying conspirational logic: explanations come with laughable ease and assurance. If there is an accident on the road tomorrow, this fellow would tell me 'the US/British government did it to make me late for work'; cynicism would be his great 'proof'. While that might work for him and (frighteningly) for some others, it doesn't do it for me. This kind of naive, uninformed social commentary for simpletons will bother different people to different degrees. Personally, it got in the way of an otherwise enjoyable plot. My eyes were rolling like two ships in a hurricane as the overwhelming stupidity of the script gathered force.
| | | `Shooter' stars Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger, a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes wrong. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service, Swagger is double-crossed again and is framed for an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Swagger begins his revenge.
If you enjoy films like The Fugitive and US Marshals than it is guaranteed that you will enjoy this film. The story isn't very original as we've all seen it been done before but that doesn't stop it from being an action-packed, fast-paced and exciting thriller that is one of the best films that I've seen Wahlberg in yet.
The film isn't as perfect as I'd hoped though, as it is very far-fetched in points and some of the plot is fairly predictable. The special effects are top-notch though, not going too over the top with the CGI, giving it a real 80's action movie feel to it, in vain of the likes of Passenger 57, Die Hard and Commando (there is one scene where Wahlberg kills about 20 soldiers on his own) mixed with a modern-day feel of films like Enemy of the State and Mission Impossible.
Overall this is an enjoyable film that although is far from believable it is very entertaining while it lasts and looks absolutely brilliant on Blu Ray.
Film - 3.5/5
Picture - 5/5
Sound - 4/5
Overall - 3/5
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