Synopsis
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.
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Cast
- Mark WahlbergBob Lee Swagger
- Michael PeñaNick Memphis
- Danny GloverColonel Isaac Johnson
- Ned BeattySenator Charles F. Meachum
- Kate MaraSarah Fenn
- Elias KoteasJack Payne
- Rhona MitraAlourdes Galindo
- Rade ŠerbedžijaMichael Sandor
- Jonathan WalkerLouis Dobbler
- Louis FerreiraHoward Purnell
Recommendations
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Village Voice
Shooter is a generically titled studio action picture that turns out to be a surprisingly deft satire about Americans' loss of faith in their government following the 2000 election, the 9/11 attacks, and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. - 75
ReelViews
Shooter does what any good thriller should accomplish - it thrills. It's fast-paced, energetic, and doesn't follow a path that seems pre-ordained from the beginning. - 70
Washington Post
It's a story that can be transplanted from genre to genre, because we never grow tired of it, which is to say that it fits snugly into the paranoid drift of American movies, and the value we place on one honest man with a gun. - 63
Rolling Stone
Suspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes more bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade as hard-ass action escapism. - 63
Premiere
It does move along at a nice clip, and delivers exactly what belligerent action fans on both sides of the political aisle want -- a wholly admirable figure blowing up a lot of bad s---. - 50
Chicago Tribune
A screwy assassination thriller for these murky times, it takes half its pages from Soldier of Fortune and the other half from links provided by conspiracytheories-zapoppin.org. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The ultimate crime of this paranoid enemy-of-the-state pulp, directed with more style than brains by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is how dull it is. - 40
Wall Street Journal
The result is lots of gunplay and explosions governed by little logic.
