OUTSTANDING EXCAPE MOVIE. HAD THE ORIGINAL IN DVD FORMAT AND PURCHASED THE BLUE-RAY VERSION SO I COULD ENJOY THE EVENT BETTER.
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I love the movie, lots of action and the good guy got the bad guys. Just the wasy it should be.
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The Shooter DVD
Added 9/23/2009
This is a really good suspense movie. The seller is excellent to deal with.
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Shooter is a HIT!
Added 9/22/2009
Mark Wahlberg does a great job in this movie! It is an action packed movie from start to finish, where there is not really a dull moment. Not many movies about an expert with a sniper rifle, and others like SNIPER were not very good. If sniper rifles interest you, or just modern guns/rifles in general than you will really enjoy this movie. Lots of great shoot out scenes, and lots of explosions! Rated R because of violence and language. This could be Mark Wahlberg's best movie, and it's one of my favorites for sure! DVD extras are great too, with features showing Mark Wahlberg actually getting sniper rifle training! Very Cool!
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Ever take anyone snipe hunting or been taken yourself? If so, you can understand how I felt watching this movie. A lot of exciting promise that ultimately leaves you feeling foolish for believing that something special might just happen. SHOOTER starts off strong and in the first 20 minutes promises to be Bourne like in quality and excitement. Sadly all that degenerates in the 2nd act where hackneyed politics ala Michal Moore become more important than storyline or plot progression. The promise of the opening of the film are pretty much shattered at that point, and are then ground to dust in the despicably bad final act. No attempt is made to make the 'bad guys' even remotely believable or rounded. They are cardboard cut-outs more fit to be in an episode of Scooby-do or Rocky & Bullwinkle than a serious political thriller. They quite literally sit around in a cabin laughing uproariously about their misdeeds and how they flaunted the law! It's comical in the sad, I'm laughing at the writers and producer of this film sort of way. Danny Glover has certainly fallen fast and far--at least his role in SHOOTER isn't as bad as his more recent Night Train.
There are some good scenes in the film, especially the opening scene and the escape scene near the end of the first act. These just set you up for disappointment as the movie progresses simultaneously towards COMMANDO like carnage and cliched socialist rants.
In brief, this is a movie that had promise but was made top-heavy and silly by an over emphasis on stupid, cliched, anti-government political rants and sermonizing as well as silly 30 on 1 Rambo scenes. The reason the Bourne movies are so great is that in spite of some less believable bits (the car chase in movie two where Bourne steals a Russian cab for example) they reflect accurate craft and are respectable from a realism standpoint. SHOOTER is not believable at all. It is silly and joyless.
1 Star. Only worth renting if you like blind action films and don't mind long winded sermons about the evils of government or cardboard cut out villains who express themselves by barefacedly guffawing over their own moral corruption.
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OUTSTANDING EXCAPE MOVIE. HAD THE ORIGINAL IN DVD FORMAT AND PURCHASED THE BLUE-RAY VERSION SO I COULD ENJOY THE EVENT BETTER.
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I love the movie, lots of action and the good guy got the bad guys. Just the wasy it should be.
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The Shooter DVD
Added 9/23/2009
This is a really good suspense movie. The seller is excellent to deal with.
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