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 enlarge | Actors: Ned Beatty, Tate Donovan, Danny Glover, Levon Helm, Elias Koteas
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  261 reviews
Sales Rank: 1704
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 125
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: PARBR130070
UPC: 097361300702
EAN: 0097361300702
ASIN: B000QUEQBS
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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 A horrible mutilation of the book September 4, 2007
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
Fuqua has turned Hunter's thoughtful book into a nutcake leftist fantasy where the baddies are all greedy, piglike Republicans. It could still have been otherwise entertaining, but the result is neither terribly thrilling nor intelligent; unlike the book, the action doesn't showcase Swagger's smarts, and his sidekick dons a Che T-shirt - perhaps to honor the gay-killing murderer? Fans of Hunter's books (and Fuqua's previous movies) will be repulsed by this rabid drivel.
 MEDIOCRE, UNDER-DEVELOPED FRACAS OVER CLICHES April 9, 2007
19 out of 28 found this review helpful
All these stars of recommendation -- are you kidding me! For a movie that starts with so much promise, this sure turns into Bollywood in about 30 minutes.
Danny Glover sports a lisp. The plot sports a brain malfunction. Politicians are easily located and live in houses that are sorely under-guarded, their meager protection coming from patently inept soldiers who cannot shoot straight, ever. The music and direction are painfully juvenile, such as a heavy metal backdrop with drums and cymbals when our oh-so-cool protagonist, suitably named Bob Lee Swagger, drops a clever line and swaggers away in slow motion with his shades on.
This protagonist and his whiz partner (suitably Hispanic, to cater to a global audience, because the African American crowd was already covered with the villain, and the Chinese/oriental with an FBI agent) go on to jointly defeat an army of about a hundred soldiers who're heavily armed with machine guns and everything else. The massacre takes place around a house, completely surrounded, but not to worry. Our hero has some real killer stuff that he and his pot-bellied aide have pulled together from groceries from the local supermarket, such as salt, sugar, and straw. There was also a plier, which should have greatly helped.
Then there's the scene on the top of a rather high snow-capped mountain where snipers are conveniently located and camouflaged in white fur, waiting for a certain helicopter to arrive before they start shooting each other. How did they get there in the first place? Perhaps they were serious rock climbers and spent two days to get to the peak, or of course, they could have been escorted in a cable car. Failing that, if the only plausible alternative was to take a helicopter or some other aerial route, how was it that they did not spot each other earlier?
Action trumps logic here. The villains are cardboard evil, never really striking any meaningful chord of fear. Wahlberg, who was stunning in The Departed and still manages to contribute the screen presence in this farce, really ought to reconsider doing these B-grade movies before he becomes the new Van Damme. The exploding bombs and energetic car chases may appeal to a couple of freckled teenagers, but overall it's a predictable mess of a film.
A quest for the truth, one bullet at a time! June 26, 2007
18 out of 29 found this review helpful
Action movies often balance on a fine line between overly serious or underachieving and full of cheese. With "Shooter", I feel we get a pretty stellar film that will hang out in my own collection along the likes of Cliffhanger, The Rock and The Fugitive.
An all-star cast is assembled for this action packed thriller that spans locales from such places as Africa, Philadelphia and Montana. Wahlberg stars as Bob Swagger, a former USMC sniper who has left the service for the solitude of a mountain top cabin. Soon swayed out of his reclusive privacy by behind the scenes government goon Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) Swagger finds himself willing to help research and sniff out a possible assassination attempt on the President of the United States.
Swagger soon finds himself in a terrible predicament and it's during this time when things get tricky. The film has an excellent pace and with the help of actual Marine Corps technical advisors and a steady direction job by Antoine Fuqua is able to be far more enjoyable as many of its kind. Chase scenes, firefights and suspense makes "Shooter" an enjoyable film from beginning to end. It never seems to be too over the top in pyrotechnics, which is nice since often times in these kind of films Hollywood thinks that a million exploding 50 gallon drums of gasoline in a 2 hour film is necessary to tell a story. The themes of corruption and government scandal are wrought throughout but not too thick, although the character played by Ned Beatty (Senator Charles F. Meachum) does go off on a glacier with a little oil speech that seems more directed at the current presidency than the government in general. In this case it does not matter to me, because whether the bandwagon is pulled by an Elephant or a Donkey, Michael Pena's performance as an F.B.I. agent who is trying to get to the bottom of things at the peril of his own career and life have you cheering for him and Swagger till the end. Kate Mara turns in a good performance as Sarah Fenn, who has ties to a Marine Swagger is shown serving in Africa with at the beginning of the film.
Tired Leftwing cliches + ridiculous worldview August 9, 2007
18 out of 29 found this review helpful
I popped this DVD in, hoping, it would not be the typical Hollywood leftwing film. Unfortunatetly, I was wrong. The movie is technically good. The acting is good. I just could not get over the tired leftwing plot and theme. I mean, think about how paranoid and unrealistic this movie is ! All the bad guys are white men (conservatives and neocons). All the good guys (except one) are women and Hispanics. The Hispanic FBI agent, to underline the point that the Left is the power of good in our universe, puts on a Che Guevara T-shirt at one point (mind you, Che personally had 1500 men killed, including teenagers, and hated gays and "artists"). The screenplay is full of typical Hollywood leftist lines about WMDs in Iraq, neocons, etc. To underline that the bad guys in our world are Republicans, in one scene, the bad guys meet in a room full of portraits of people like Bush Sr., Teddy Roosevelt, etc. This movie is just over the top, tired, and cliched. It is a paranoid vision of how our government works. In a post 9-11 world, I personally find it offensive to proclaim that the U.S. government is the enemy. This screenplay could have been written by Ward Churchill or Noam Chomsky. Americans need to start boycotting Hollywood. I am sick of this.
"There are no sides. Only haves and have nots". No one thinks like that. This is a cardboard version of what American conservatives think.
If Hollywood writers, directors, and screenwriters ever met real conservatives, they wouldn't have this ridiculous worldview.
Minimum Stars - No Stars More Accurate June 28, 2007
17 out of 26 found this review helpful
No offense intended to prior reviews - this is my 2 cents.
Forget the poor adaptation of the book "Point of Impact", which was expected, given the technical details of a sniper's craft and the intricate plot line. This movie is a muddled mess, complete with mumbled dialog and cartoonish characters, from the mis-cast Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger, to the buffoonish senator "played" by Ned Beatty. And don't get me started on the Danny Glover character. What a waste of talent.
On the other hand, the action sequences were visually appealing . . .
Completely, utterly, mindlessly action-oriented movie for the hard-core explosion, gun fight, blood-splattering violence fan.
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