Nonureva Really Surprised!

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Shooter" (2007)Director Antoine Fuqua sends star-actor Mark Wahlberg, at age 35, on a rebounding retaliation mission to clear his name after a viscous assassination attempt on the anonymous-held U.S. President of the United States. Utilized with a special skill sets in sharp shooting, combat as survival techniques, the Ex-military main character Bob must go through civilians, here given face by convictions-as-suspicions-sharing actress Kate Mara teaming up with the FBI-fugitive, hunted by agents as Nick Memphis, played by Michael Pena and plotting governmental insiders in supports sublime with Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra and Rade Serbedzija coming all into play with lethal encounters of sniper Bob, when "Shooter" delivers full throttle action thriller entertainment of 120 Minutes, edited by "Titanic" (1997) editor Conrad Buff IV, leaving no dull moments for a single ride of Hollywood motion picture satisfactions.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Eric_Cubed Well, there's not too many that liked or even mildly appreciated "Shooter," but I am happy to say I am one of the few detractors. It's a formula for sure, but somehow by some miracle it all comes together as a very enjoyable film with a strong political message. Let's start with the acting. It turns out Marky Mark is a fairly fine actor in the right role, much like Brad Pitt (e.g. as Pitt appeared in 12 Monkeys). He gets into character, loses himself, and because he has this skill, the audience believes the character's hype, no matter how ingratiated. Michael Pena is the Latino call to Don Cheadle, two of the finest, most likable, most entertaining and most fun to watch actors of this generation or any other (see Pena's performance in Ant-Man, and Cheadle's role in Traitor for further evidence). Danny Glover, Elias Koteas and Ned Beatty are all pitch perfect (especially Beatty). The formulas' are aplenty and abound, which is why this is not a four start movie. The Fugitive template is used well, with the usual clichés: escaping protagonist after car crashes in the water, hero violates every law on the books and in the end is bafflingly exonerated, the token slow motion patriotic scene of Marky and a few others. But unlike the Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal or Nicolas Cage revenge flicks, this one comes with a strong message: political corruption is a conglomerate, and cutting off the head of the snack only results in another group of people, cartel-like, assuming the roles of their predecessors. "You can't kill human weakness with a gun," Beatty states, and deep down in our cultural hearts we know this is true, for our entire political institution is based and predicated on the weaknesses and vulnerability that created it (also known as the human condition): greed, avarice, jealousy, money, power, loss---they all figure in and are part and parcel of our organizational belief system (warrior values, simplistic either/or thinking, propaganda). It's Shakespearean, it's archetypal, and it's completely true, relatively, for all celluloid is a painted picture of the Zeitgeist Gestalt (the notion that art, that being movies in this case, imitates life and vice-versa). And in America, the our system is essentially narcissistic, grandiose, entitled, arrogant, self-absorbed. Objectifying with abandon. Sadly, that is our generational norm, our legacy, one we must change if everyone is to survive. Perhaps this is a bit too much to read into "Shooter," but the sensibility, the nuance of what I am getting at is still there. So 3/4 stars! Watch it NOW!!!!

Jordan Sharayde Gould I quite enjoyed the struggle of the abandoned sniper left in No Mans Land as an expendable asset, just like a piece of toilet roll or a tissue.The fact that the CIA/FBI or whatever guy knew that a sniper would never poke his gun out of a window was a pretty nice breath of reality.However, what I don't like is how many times this film got pretty easy facts wrong. With a sniper like a M107, firing at a range of, at most, 1,500M, travel time would be, rounded up, over 2 seconds. Yet Swagger seems to think that all rounds travel at the same speed. And, in the very first scenes, his Spotter uses what looks like an M4 with an M203 and a scope of some sort, yet he can accurately engage men at, as he quoted, 900 yards. Various plot holes as well. When the attack helicopter made it's first run, it didn't use it's rocket pods, which would have killed both men. And, Swagger would have known that a 7.62 from an M24 wouldn't stand much chance of penetrating the canopy of a helicopter outfitted with rocket pods and guns that I didn't bother identifying, yet he decides that instead of using a M107 to engage, he would just fire his 7.62s at it, letting his friend die.But of course, it's only a film, so I shan't pick at it any longer. I did like the soda can suppressor....Wait a second.*Siiiiigh*. He called it a silencer. I immediately hate him more.There is no such thing as an actual silencer. They suppress gunshots but the shot is still really loud, but of course this, again, is only a film, so I'll overlook it.Also, love how the guys at the start of the film immediately know where the rounds are coming from, and set up a mortar for indirect fire accurate to about 20 feet of their position. That isn't them firing blind, that's just shell dispersion. The shots should be going all over the cliffs, considering it wouldn't be a stretch to have him in an outcropping anywhere on the face.So, all in all, good action film, but horrendously bad at having it's facts straight.

Gordon-11 This film is about a superb sniper who retires after his partner died in a mission in Africa. He is recruited to stop an assassination of the president, however he quickly finds out that he is being set up for the assassination."Shooter" cuts to the chase quickly and does not waste time in getting to the main plot point. Quickly, the main star is already on the run from the authorities. He is helped by an agent who believe that things are not adding up. The suspense and thrill is well maintained. However, I think what Mark Wahlberg did on the snowy peak doesn't make sense. doesn't make sense. It would appear to me that it was in his best interest to have kept that object. Anyway, "Shooter" is still an entertaining film.