Mixture of movies we all watched before

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2008)

In the lack of truly good action movies, "Shooter" makes a little difference because it is mostly intelligent, fast and easy to watch. Of course this movie has problems and this is definitely not the best of its genre, but Fuqua provides us good fun through entire movie with universal message that something is wrong in America. And not only in America, in every state you can find corruption on the top, but America is too big and always juicy to talk about. Why? Because of its external politic to other lands (mostly). That issue is represented in this movie (conversation between Wahlberg and Serbedzija is great), but it also has something that bothered me. The ending. You cannot just walk in the house and do what he did (senator!!!). If this was reality, Wahlberg's character would be a killer and not a hero in eyes of viewer. Here Fuqua mix what is right and what is wrong and here he presents his rage about the current position America is in. He did that by giving us the mixture of movies we all watched before. "The Fugitive" (Wahlberg is wrongfully accused just like Ford), "Assassins" (church tower where the rifle is), "Rambo" (setting up the bombs) and lot more action movies were our main hero manages to kill all his enemies, even when he is outnumbered. And it all works out very well because of Wahlberg. He really can pass for action hero. Danny Glover and Ned Beatty are bad guys and Rade Serbedzija gives us very believable performance too. Most beautiful part of this movie is Rhona Mitra and there is also Kate Mara in it. So, Fuqua managed to make a solid movie. This is certainly not his best but it is recommendable to watch for all action fans.