Shooter- Action Packed Shoots Real Well ***1/2

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2007)

Action packed thriller where a government agent (Mark Wahlberg) is tricked into planning an assassination of the president for the FBI so that they can thoroughly investigate a threat made to the president. The trouble is that Danny Glover and others, who hired Walhberg to do this, have real murderous intentions pending so Wahlberg is duped and soon becomes a man running on the loose.
The special effects here are quite good and we learn that our government is corrupt and that murders have occurred in Africa for our selfish oil interests.
Ned Beatty plays a greedy U.S. senator involved in murder for oil.
Exciting, interesting and definitely a picture for our current times.