An impressive political thriller

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2014)

While watching Antoine Fuqua's Shooter another movie entered my mind about 10 or 20 minutes into the film and that movie was Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958) because the plots to both of those movies are just so similar especially because one character gets framed in each movie. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg as former Marine Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger (who also happens to be a sharpshooter) retires and is in peace at home with his dog relaxing and doing target practice as usual, then he meets former Colonel Isaac Johnson (played by Danny Glover) and his other friends and they talk about a conspiracy to assassinate the president of the united states ( whose name is not mentioned in the film) for about five minutes or so then Johnson leaves Swagger's residence and after Johnson leaves Swagger thinks about it and approves of the idea. After a few days he says goodbye to his dog and goes on his way to assassinate the president , and after the archbishop of Ethiopia is done with his speech and the president and one of Johnson's teammates attempt to shoot the president and instead hits the arch bishop, then all hell breaks loose Swagger gets shot twice by a cop who witnesses the assassination attempt and runs away. then he meets FBI agent Nick Memphis (played by Michael Pena) who is just about to arrest him and again Swagger gets away realizing he just got framed.And also while watching this movie one other movie entered my mind without thinking about it and that was Andrew Davis' The Fugitive (1993) because of the chase scenes. Two things I find funny with the characters is the last names of both Wahlberg's character Swagger which is a term used to mean cool, and for Pena's character which is a town in the state of Tennessee. but in the end it was a very well done movie.