Disappointing version of a great book

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2007)

What a shame Stephen Hunter didn't write the screenplay because it certainly would not have ended in such a typically Hollywood way. The original hero was a Vietnam veteran sniper. Natually, Hollywood had to include a Senator spouting nonsense about the Iraq War being all about oil and that the government always lies because money rules the world, blah, blah, blah. Hunter's Bob Swagger is a true hero who only killed people trying to kill him. The ending of the Shooter just makes Swagger look like a killer. The best book of the series if one called Black Light. It's fantastic but I'd rather never see it get made if they're going to destroy the character.