Honestly, a dull action movie!

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2009)

I extremely disappointed with Shooter, because I had expected a fast paced action movie with great action scenes, but waited, waited and waited. It has potential, but the movie is too slow paced, no enough action and also action scenes are mild, it does not rock. Visually it looks good, but nothing more. There are some action movies which slow paced and mild and unfortunately, I guess it is just bad luck, in some of them, there is Mark Wahlberg. Shooter and Max Payne for example. I did not like Max Payne at all (and almost everyone did not) because to me, it was too slow paced either. We believe the posters, the trailers, but the movies become disappointing. At the beginnings of the movie, in the scene that Swagger tries to save the president from the assassination, there is a goof; the bad cop's visibility distance is perfect and he is not an amateur, but he misses Swagger. Is it possible that he does not want to do it? May be, otherwise, it is a goof. Returning to action, absolutely, I don't call this movie action, it is a thriller (but a bad one) The biggest action scene is the one takes place in the/in front of the cottage. However, even this is not long enough and seemed me mild. The snowy scene on the mountain is well visually, but not an action scene. Our man is wounded and goes to a woman and those parts steal a lot of time of the movie. Why they do that? Because of lack of enough budget? No, I don't think so. Because, directors are too lazy to make action scenes which is backbreaking? May be. Think about The Shooter and think about Die Hards, Mission: Impossibles, Bourne Supremacy etc. If you still think that Shooter is an action packed, then there is nothing about it.