Revenge instead of Heroism

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2020)

Shooter looked like a good action movie. Its corrupt government officials frame good guy and good guy has to clear his name formula works well in many other action movies. However, in good action movies the main character doesn't kill people unless he has to, e.g. in self defense. This was not the case in Shooter. Mark Wahlberg went on a killing spree. There were too many scenes where he kills 50 guys (and viciously kills them) just to get to one guy. Clearly, throughout the movie he pushed the limits of justifiable killing. But the last killing scene of the movie tipped the scale. Since Mark Wahlberg's name was already cleared, this killing was motivated by revenge rather than self defense. Mark Wahlberg's character was unheroic and this made the movie unlikable.