Decent action movie

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2007)

This is a pretty good action movie.Of course movies of this type have been done to death so it's hard to get too worked up about even a good one.But this movie is watchable and does what it does fairly well.
A retired sniper is double crossed by some corrupt politicians and he doesn't take kindly to it.After being set up for a shooting at an event at which the president is attending the ex-sniper(played by Mark Wahlberg) escapes and tries to survive until he can figure out what is going on around him.
The action is good and the movie has good pacing ,there isn't much time wasted in setting up the plot.Now the outcome is implausible to downright silly and some of the other events just wouldn't happen in a million years either.The script is pretty lame in some places.And I never knew how bad an actor Danny Glover was until I saw him in this movie.
But anyway this movie knows what it is and it delivers on a somewhat worn out premise(all those Bourne movies plus a million more)of one man taking on the corrupt system that is trying to eliminate him.This movie doesn't aim for greatness,it's a run of the mill action movie and there is nothing wrong with that as long as it is done fairly well.And it was done fairly well in this movie.
This is a rental only,not one to add to your collection.