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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:   (259 reviews)
Sales Rank: 772
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
Running Time: 125 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: PARBR130070
UPC: 097361300702
EAN: 0097361300702
ASIN: B000QUEQBS
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Description
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service, Swagger is double-crossed again. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Swagger begins his revenge, which will take down the most powerful people in the country.
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A movie that would not have been out of place in the run of paranoid-political thrillers of the 1970s, Shooter works an entertaining variation on the assassination picture. Mark Wahlberg, carrying over good mojo from The Departed, slides neatly into the character of Bob Lee Swagger, master marksman. Swagger has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military, having become disillusioned with his government (switching on his TV at his remote mountain cabin, he mutters, "Let's see what kind of lies they're trying to sell us today."). Ah, but the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president, so a shadowy government operative (Danny Glover) begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. From there--well, spoilers are not fair, since the movie has a few legitimate shocks and a very nice wrong-man scenario about to unfold. A novel by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Stephen Hunter gives the movie a logical spine, even if the premise itself is the stuff of conspiracy theorists. Wahlberg gets support from Michael Pena, as a skeptical FBI agent; Kate Mara, as a trustworthy widow; and Ned Beatty, trailing along memories of Network, as a supremely cynical Senator. Along with the well-executed action sequences (the previously unreliable director Antoine Fuqua gets it in gear here), the movie includes a few potshots at the Bush administration. No, that doesn't put Shooter at the level of The Parallax View or All the President's Men, but it provides some tang along with the flying bullets. --Robert Horton Beyond Shooter 
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Why did I wait soooo long.... **spoilers** November 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, I just saw The Shooter and I must say, why did I wait soooo long?? Great movie from beginning to end. Mark Wahlberg turns in a solid performance along with an excellent ensemble cast. Had me on the edge of my seat from the sort of botched, attempted assasination to cold blooded revenge in the end. Damn, doesn't it feel good when the good guys win!!! OOOOOOHAAAA!!!
 GOOD ACTION FLICK October 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
LOTS OF FUN A GOOD ACTION FLICK MW IS GOOD IN IT AND LIKE HIS MOVIE GIRLFRIEND
Shooter review October 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A veteran double crossed by the government during his early military career is used once again in this fast paced action flick. The unsuspecting soldier is talked into helping 'prevent' the assassination of a president, but things are not what they seem and he's roped into a deep conspiracy. Now he must run for his life while he tries to find a way to reveal the truth. I could slightly guess the formula and where it was leading on this one, but still enjoyed the action packed story.
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
 You're on target to lose 125 minutes of your life. September 6, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rented this to counter-balance wife's choice of "What Happens in Vegas" (that was better than expected). That the people who produced this "hit piece" were going to ignore facts and try to brow beat you into believing their "anti-America, anti-Republican" message.
SPOILERS: It begins with a sniper team (supposedly Marines) covering an extraction team. The spotter takes the time to gaze at a picture of his cute wife and ponder the ethics and purpose of their mission while they literally chew their cud. The action starts with Mark Wahlberg knocking off targets with casual ease but when a larger force "appears" they call for backup; especially when the bad guys manage to set up mortars ranged onto their position instantaneously. At the Army base, some civilian pulls the plug on the supposedly covert operation by saying that they will get out on their own and to break camp immediately. The spotter gets gunned down by a helicopter (Why are they always making runs rather than hovering?) Oh whoa is "Swagger" (why not just name the character Johnny Bigc*ck?). Suddenly it's three years later and Swagger has hair longer than my mother, living in the rugged Northwest. Danny Glover sets him up by telling him that he alone can help them counteract a threat against the president in a manner that'll leave your four year old scratching their head. Swagger is referred to as a Sgt., SSgt. and a Gunny, throughout the film; supposedly he "retired" right after he got back to the States. WTF? The movie quickly dissolves into a farce in which characters are made to do one thing one scene and another the next without any logical connection. Non-subtle digs at Republicans (Presidential portraits in Glover's "office"), the current administration ("They thought there were WMD's in Iraq!" one character quips), "Big Oil" (that first operation was to cover a group of "contractors" killing off a village that refused to move when "we" decided to run a pipeline through their location), corporations ("There's no head [of the bad guys] to cut off. It's a corporation.") and the military (I hope there wasn't any military advisor on this POS as they'd likely now be suicide candidate). The ridiculousness reaches higher and higher as the film goes on... Swagger easily evading capture from countless law enforcement types in broad daylight, running a straight line across open fields without getting hit by whithering gunfire (ala' Arnold in "Commando"), going MacGuyver in local supermarkets, repulsing two cops and their German Shepard like Jason Bourne but with the added kicker of sticking one cops' arm into the jaws of the attacking dog! A certain amount of belief needs to be suspended when watching any movie, I know, but we're supposed to buy into the notion that Swagger's dead partner's wife is a hot, young thing that is a single school teacher in fictitious Keen, KY after three years, wears skimpy clothes when answering the door and can perform surgery (despite the fact that becoming a nurse was her dead husband's dream, not hers due to a dislike of the sight of blood!). The "hero-done-wrong" in these type movies always receive supporting aid and in this one it's provided by an at first bumbling FBI agent who then is an authority on ancient battlefield medical remedies and later, with a quick flashbang lesson, is, Ta-Da! a sniper, too!!!
I could not stand the headache this garbage pile brought on, went to the head and promptly produced something better. Before this, "Independence Day" (which I walked out of the theater on) was one of the worst assaults upon my intelligence. "Enemy State" ranked right up there though fortunately that was rented and quickly returned. This puts everything this movie-lover has seen to shame. I can not explain how any enjoyment could be experienced from watching this but if there was, then the makers of this film were at least partly correct: the common American is stupid, gullible and easily lead around by the nose.
Movie: 3.25~4/5 Picture Quality: 4.25~5/5 Sound Quality: 3.5~4/5 Extras: 2.25/5 September 5, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Format: Blu-ray
MPEG-2 BD-50
Running time: 2:05:41
Movie size: 30,405,734,400 bytes
Disc size: 39,058,040,880 bytes
Average Video Bit Rate: 28.36 Mbps
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps
Extras:
(*)Survival of the Fittest: Making of Shooter
(*)Independence Hall
(*)Deleted Scenes
Version: U.S.A
Format: HD DVD
MPEG-4 AVC HD-30
Running time: 2:05:37
Movie size: 22,523,803,648 bytes
Disc size: 28,782,408,985 bytes
Average Video Bit Rate: 20.48 Mbps
DDPlus 5.1 1536Kbps
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