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| Shooter - 2007 |
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Movie Reviews -- week of 03/25/2007 |
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Review: Once a Marine sharpshooter,
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), is now retired from duty and from
all ties to his old life. Set up as collateral losses, he and his
buddy were left behind on a covert government mission, and only he
survived. Upon his return to the States, he isolated himself from
society and the government that deserted him. Why is it guys like
this can never resist that one, last mission to be of service to their
country?
And that’s exactly what the G-men ask of him when they seek
him out to help them with a mission that he can’t refuse. Their
pitch is that the President is potentially the target of an assassin’s
bullet and his expertise is needed to “get into the skin”
of a killer in order to block an attempt to kill the President. The
premise they present is that if he can accurately, but hypothetically,
plan the mission, the proper security will be ready to foil the impending
attack.
By now you’ve guessed that he’s been set-up again, and
there-in lays the bulk of the movie. Set-up, but not set back, Swagger
employs all of the survival techniques he has gleaned from his military
experience, and then some, to survive the onslaught of government
“baddies” that are out to get him. A little love story
is there for the ladies, but by and large, this is a man’s film.
Everything that can be shot or blown-up is. Watch out for rolling
fireballs!
by Mary Morgan is a member of
the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association. |
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