Shooter (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Rhona Mitra, Danny Glover, Kate Mara
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  278 reviews
Sales Rank: 1677
Format: Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 097363303046
UPC: 097363303046
EAN: 0097363303046
ASIN: B000Q6GUTI
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 2007
Release Date: June 26, 2007
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Product Description
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military when a mission goes bad. After he is pressed back into service to foil an assassination attempt on the President, Swagger finds himself double-crossed again and framed for the attempt. The subject of a nationwide manhunt, he must fight to clear his name and bring his framers to justice - a fight he knows he can't win.
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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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 getting even June 28, 2009
Don Bowermaster (wv)
wild plot but this could happen-I will have the last word if you screw over me
 I did not receive this item!!! June 11, 2009
James D. Parenti (Cheney, WA.)
I did not receive this video. I don't know why I keep having to tell you this but if it continues you will be losing a customer!!!
Too stupid for me June 9, 2009
Alan Starr (Lawrence, MA)
Mark Wahlberg feature that is just awful. Made it about half-hour into it before turning it off. Just too stupid for me.
Movie - The Shooter May 28, 2009
Richard Snyder
I am very happy with my purchase. The seller was pronpt on the shipment, and the movie arrive in perfect shape.
This was the best I've seen in a long time May 18, 2009
Lemas Mitchell (Kunming, Yunnan China)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Short Attention Span Summary:
1. The movie opens with Mark Wahlberg doing his job with another guy. There is some blow up, and only Wahlberg survives.
2. Later, he goes into isolation, living with his dog. Some government officials find him and recruit him for one last job (planning an assassination but not carrying it out).
3. During the job, a crooked cop (who is part of what turns out to be a grand conspiracy) tries to assassinate him, but he manages to escape.
4. After a very long series of implausible lucky chances, he goes to visit the widow of his old partner (who was killed in the first scene in the movie).
5. The only person who believes that he is innocent is a rookie FBI official, and so the rookie too becomes part of this game.
6. Eventually, the whole plan is exposed (including the Senator and the other government official), but because of some technicalities none of the government officials are indicted.
7. Wahlberg is let free to go, but kills the crooked government officials anyway.
This movie was pretty good overall. There were some disturbing things/ points that the movie tried to make without talking.
1. All of the bad guys were wearing American flags on their lapel pins. What was the latent message of this?
2. Could any corruption really go that far up before someone noticed? Can one single senator really order the FBI around?
3. The bad guy was a senior Senator who had been on the take for some time. So was the film's writer trying to suggest that the corruption was very deep and also extant over a very long time?
4. In one scene, they had the good guy wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. Hmmmm. I wonder what they could have been getting at there.
There were also problems with the believability of the film (even though it moved fast enough to not give the viewer time to sit and think about said problems):
1. Could a sharpshooter really train an accomplice THAT fast?
2. In the scene where he went to meet the crooked Senator and crooked FBI official, where did he get the helicopter to do that? In fact, where was any of his money coming from (since the government had frozen all of his assets and tried to destroy his life)? Did he have that much laying around in cash?
3. He randomly went to the old guy Looking For Answers, and the old guy just happened to know what he wanted to know and just happened to have lived through other government conspiracies. Umm, ok.
4. The Archbishop of Ethiopia was assassinated because he was the ONLY ONE who knew that a whole village had been wiped out because of an oil pipeline?
Other than that, the movie was great. The cinematography, acting and casting were all top notch. And Wahlberg is still nice looking even after all these years.
The plot was enough to keep you interested-- even if you don't like the hidden message.
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