Shooter (2007)
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Rhona Mitra, Rade Sherbedgia, Ned Beatty
Screenwriter: Jonathan Lemkin, Jonathan Lemkin
Producer: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Ric Kidney
Composer: Mark Mancina
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 31, 2007
HD-DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 1080p High Definition
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Plus - English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (7; HD)
- Audio Commentaries - Antoine Fuqua - Director
- Behind the Scenes - "Survival of the Fittest: The Making of SHOOTER" (HD)
- Featurettes - "Independence Hall" (HD)
- Trailers - Theatrical Trailer (HD)
Buy It On DVD
Reviews
It jumps from typical action one-liners to political discussions about Abu Ghraib. I mean, you can't have a character named Swagger and expect me to take you seriously.
... the twists within twists become so laughable that you can't take anything seriously... the only thing missing here is a laugh track.
If you don't mind watching a rerun of a few other, better, spy thrillers, Shooter isn't half bad.
Despite its slew of genre cliches, Shooter works in fits and starts as a valentine to a simpler era in action films.
The only way to watch it without considering it unbearably ridiculous or morally revolting is to focus purely on the action, the fighting, the explosions, and the quick pace.
Halfway decent script, good acting, good chases and stuff gets blown up. What more do you want? Godzilla?
The cinematic equivalent of one of those chunky special-forces-porn airport novels.
Ultimately, it’s just a vigilante picture with ideas above its station.
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.
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.
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