Monday, April 2, 2007

Shooter











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Starring:


Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias
Kotea...


Review:


Suspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes on more
bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade
as hard-ass action escapism. Props to Mark Wahlberg, an actor whose
fierce gaze and sneaky humor can carry a movie over the rockiest
terrain. Even one that plays like a shotgun marriage between
The Fugitive and The Bourne Identity. Wahlberg,
who finally got that Oscar nomination (for The Departed)
that he also deserved for Boogie Nights and I Heart
Huckabees, plays Bob Lee Swagger (great name), a former Marine
scout sniper. Emotionally wounded by the death of his partner on a
failed mission in Africa, Swagger takes off with his dog to a
mountaintop ranch (strikingly shot in British Columbia). It's a
visit from retired Col. Isaac Johnson (a...



Rating: 2 Stars





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