Shooter

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2007)

Shooter Let me say it in the beginning. The movie is a typical 80's Hollywood action movie. This time the angle of the story is different.
The movie tells the story about a retired sniper Bob Lee Swagger  played by Mark Wahlberg (remember The Departed last scene shooter), who is called by Colonel Isaac (Danny Glover) to give expert inputs on protecting US President from sniper attack. Mark is pitched on the other side of the US law by government, CIA and FBI and framed for attempting murder of the US President. Now he has to prove find out the real truth behind his framing, prove himself innocent, and put the corrupt system in place like a Rambo. Kate Mara plays the love angel (it has to be there) of Mark, who like typical Bollywood style is taken hostage in exchange for the Mark to surrender. Michael Pena plays the supportive anchor for Mark in joining the battle against the corruption.
There are good action scenes that build up the adrenal, but all that we see is just repetition of what we have seen in numerous movies. The movie is full of clichés. The hero is larger than life. Because he gets shot in the beginning  throughout the remaining movie none of the bullets showered on him touches him! Kate Mara  has she done some plastic surgery on her face or what? Her role is the most loosely written and she tries to show sudden range of emotional changes that is funny! Mark Wahlberg tries to bring to lie the Die Hard, Rambo  one man army image; I should say that he succeeds to a large extend. I just hoped that he story, script and screenplay were tighter. The story is taken from one of the five novels written by Stephen Hunter on the main protagonist character Bob Lee Swagger. I assume that the thrill of the novel must be engaging and representing the scope of making it a movie, but the Director Antoine Fuqua fails to convert the book magic into an interesting movie.
Young teenagers might enjoy the movie.
(Stars 3.5 out of 10)