Shooter (2007)
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.
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One of my all time favorites.
good back-story, and good acting
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
This is been one of my all-time top favorite movies since I saw it when it came out Bob Lee Swagger a sniper retired gets framed for the attempted assassination of the president and has to go through a series of events to try and clear his name Nonstop Action pulse-pounding Mark Wahlberg in his prime and at his best
I've watched this movie at least 294 times While at work on doubletime. The movie gets better every time I see it. It literally stops people In their tracks to sit down and watch this fabulous movie.Southwest airlines Phoenix loves this movie.
The plot of this movie is so incredibly stupid that I suspect the writers were on cocaine.One stupid example out of hundreds. The US senator arrives in a helicopter on top of a snow capped mountain while the colonel and the girl arrive in another. Mark Wahlberg comes on foot, dressed in a white snow outfit, with his sniper rifle. Now, what US senator, especially a cartoon-replica of Dick Cheney, would come to an "exchange" on top of a snow-capped mountain? Another,Wahlberg kills dozens of FBI and CIA agents, but walks away following a private meeting with the US Attorney General. This follows an assassination of the Ethiopian Bishop. Has the entire US Justice System gone incompetent?
Since I've read all of the novels with the leading character, Bob Lee Swagger, I really don't know how, where and which this film had adapted from Stephen Hunter's novels. If just followed what the film's storyline, script, scenarios and the plot twists, it simply looked more like James Thayer's "White Star".I strongly believed that the screenwriter(s) had goofed the hero's name from Stephen Hunter's novels, but 80% of it was actually stolen and extracted from James Thayer's novel instead. I do think that this movie's product people should pay him 80% of the movie right fee and 10% to Hunter to borrow the more widely known character's name.This movie is not bad but the scenarios and the twists simply not quite possible and highly unlikely to ring true. Directing, acting and special effect are all pretty good.