It Is About Freedom, It Is not About Oil

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2008)

In Ethiopia, in the end of a secret mission, the sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) and his friend and spotter Donnie Fenn (Lane Garrison) are betrayed, left behind and Donnie is killed. Three years later, the lonely Bob is living in the mountains of Wyoming with his beloved dog Sam when he unexpectedly visited by Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover). The colonel uses Bob's patriotism to invite him to work in the security of the President of USA, trying to foresee where a sniper could shot him along his visit to Washington, Philadelphia and Seattle with the Archbishop of Ethiopia. When the Archbishop is deadly shot in Philadelphia, Bob is double-crossed and also shot twice by Officer Stanley Timmons (Alan C. Peterson) and accused of the murder. Wounded and chased by dozens of agents and policemen, Bob seeks help with the only person that could believe him, and while seeking the real killer, he finds a huge conspiracy related to oil supply.
"Shooter" is an entertaining full-of-action movie, with a great beginning and development but a weak conclusion. I do not understand why Bob destroys the tape of Senator Charles F. Meachum; if he had no intention of using it because he knew how huge the conspiracy was, why did he record the words of the senator? I liked this film, but the foregoing scene with the meeting with the colonel and the senator in the helicopter was absolutely unnecessary. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Atirador" ("The Shooter")