A exhilarating, big budget action thriller about corruption, betrayal and integrity.. Director Antoine Fuqua delivers thrills on a large scale and Wahlberg is a charismatic hero, overcoming all the odds to find justice far away from the Justice Department

The film’s weird, thin politics become harder to swallow as it lurches from set-up to set-up.

There are plenty of things wrong with Shooter but the quantity and indeed the quality of the explosions isn't one of them.

It's no masterpiece, but it's way better than the usual big gun/small brain fare.

purports to question the way in which the military can take over the political process, but its answer is little more than the very violence it's supposedly critiquing.

Shooter is a real stinker.

Mark Wahlberg is an effective weapon of mass destruction as an ex-marine set up to take the fall for an ugly political cover-up.

It's the execution that matters, and for the most part ... the formula is executed well.

This notion that villains might be identified and "dealt with" is rather quaint.

Usually conspiracy thrillers don't work. And few fail on as many levels as Shooter.