Worthy Action Movie

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2007)

Retired Marine Corps Sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) believes he was set up to take the fall for an assassination attempt and decides to fight back the only way he was trained to.
I guess Bruce Willis was tied up with another Die Hard movie, but no matter Mark Wahlberg does a more than acceptable job here. This moves along at a very good pace, nothing is overdone and the stunts are very good. All performances are more than good although I would like to have seen more of Rhona Mitra  and they wouldn't let her use her English accent and she did come across as a little lost because of that, in my opinion. Well, she had to think Americaneze each time and she struggled with it. You could see it. Actually, Rhona and Kate could have switched roles and the accent could have stayed.
(OK, Bob what else didn't you like) Well, in the beginning, most of the cast had to speak in low tones and I (and, the audience too, I am sure) had trouble listening in low tones mode.
(Anything else?) Yes, they show Nick (Pena) looking at a computer screen several times and the camera held position so I can read it, but the fonts were so small I couldn't read anything. They know this stuff will go to DVD. Help us out, will ya?
(You done?) No, and here you will have had to have seen the movie. My question is why did Sarah (Mara) revert back to her maiden name after her sniper husband was killed in action 3-years earlier? She loved and admired him and had his picture all over her house. Why the change? Just so the bad guys tracking Swagger had a harder time of finding him if he went to her house? She couldn't know anything like that, so why the change? Didn't make sense to me.
(You done now?) Almost. All thru the movie I admired the dialogue that didn't include F-bombs all over the place and I was taking my hat off to them..(Yeah, but..). until the last 10-minutes when all F-bomb hell broke loose.
OK, I sounded pretty picky above, but all in all this is really a Worthy Action Movie, and I am sure Bruce Willis would have given us a few memorable lines as he is prone to do, but Mark Wahlberg is an okay Action Hero and it is about time he struck out on his own. (and, he did a very good job in another movie: Invincible, didn't he?) Yes, and I wonder if the wearing of that Philadelphia Eagles jacket was intentional in this movie.
Violence:Yes, Sex: No, Nudity: No, Language: yes in the last 10,12-minutes