jp700-147-838363 Reading these reviews gives a pretty good barometer of just how bottom end heavy the IQ Bell curve has become. No need to rehash what a tired rehash and self consciously and badly written and acted this piece of drivel this is. Suffice to say the swashbuckling action hero's name is BOBBY LEE SWAGGER. This has to be an in joke. This thing is a steaming pile of dung colored cliches.

omnipotentbill You've seen it before....an innocent man is framed and goes on the run with the authorities and bad guys in pursuit. So the only question is, is this a good version of this type of story?For the most part it works well with the likeable hero thwarting the bad guys. It becomes a little OTT when our hero and his inexperienced friend dispatch 20+ heavily armed bad guys while dodging a hail of bullets.A couple of the bad guys were caricatures.Don't expect too much and you'll probably enjoy it...I did.

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)

sddavis63 If you're into conspiracy theories, then this movie is definitely for you! This is the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories. It seems to involve people in all walks of life. The military is involved. There's a senator. The FBI is playing a part. Local police officers are a part of this. The wealthy are definitely in on it. It's huge. One problem with the scenario is that I never quite was able to put my finger on exactly what the conspiracy was. The movie starts with a supposed American peace-keeping mission in Ethiopia going badly wrong. But from there - while Ethiopia is always front and centre - the conspiracy seems to widen and it seems to be about more than Ethiopia. The movie just started with Ethiopia. It's there that we're introduced to the character of Bob Lee Swagger (a name you have to love) - who's played by Mark Wahlberg. Swagger survives the debacle in Ethiopia, but his friend and partner doesn't and Swagger - filled with guilt - becomes a recluse back home. Then he's recruited to help stop an assassination attempt on the president (except that it really isn't) and ends up being framed for the killing of the "Archbishop of Ethiopia" who was appearing with the president. I didn't really get the point of making the Archbishop of Ethiopia the target of the plot - unless it was to somehow imply that the Catholic Church was also involved in the conspiracy? I thought ti would have been more powerful if it had been perhaps the President of Ethiopia who was killed. Also, the scenes toward the end of the movie portraying Swagger's meeting with the director of the FBI where he clears his name seemed unlikely. At the very least, it was too easy. Just as unlikely was the meeting on the snow-capped mountain. You have to see that one to really understand it.So it's a kind of convoluted and ill-defined conspiracy, the point of which as far as I could tell was to make the rich richer? And what seem to be the climactic scenes (the two I described above) kind of sputter along unbelievably. There's certainly a lot of action in this, and it's not dull. Just a bit fuzzy around the edges if that makes any sense. I didn't really think that there was a need to develop a romance between Swagger and his late partner's widow Sarah. That seemed just too cliché for me. The performances were pretty good. Wahlberg was fine, and so was Kate Mara as Sarah and Michael Pena as the FBI agent who figures out that something's not right and ends up on Swagger's side. I did appreciate seeing veteran actors Ned Beatty as the entirely corrupt senator whose life and career seem to revolve around this conspiracy, and Danny Glover as the "Colonel" who recruits Swagger.If you're really into conspiracy theories, this certainly gives you one to remember. If you're not - well, it's not a bad time waster anyway. (5/10)