I can grow a better beard than Marky Mark.

Despite a fairly predictable plot, this still manages to be a decent action movie with some pretty good set-pieces, the first 10 minutes and the assaults on the two different compounds.

Despite those though, it never manages to rise above being nothing more than yet another action-conspiracy film with a main character that's pretty much a Jason Bourne rip-off.

I work at a little Flea Market place here locally. What does that have to do with Shooter? Well, I saw the movie a while back and I thought it was ok. Alot of people seem to like it, which is what im getting at with the Flea Market thing....

People try to fucking steal this movie all the time. Is it really that good? They arent women, so they cant have some weird attraction to Mark. (or maybe they do) Am I missing something here? We have like 200 copies of this movie at our store, and someone gets caught trying to steal it all the time. I have personally caught someone twice. One time our security tackled some guy trying to steal it, and he crapped his pants... He crapped his pants over Shooter with Marky Mark.

Who am I kidding... I just wanted to review this movie so I could tell that story.

It was alright, not the best thriller I've ever seen, probably not even the best Wahlberg thriller I've seen! But it was ok. Just.. not bad.

There were moments that I quite liked watching, particularly towards the beginning of the film (but then I am a sucker for those wilderness shots). They also showcased some rather impressive looking guns; something I wouldn't ordinarily like to see glorified, but here they manage to make it look cool to the point I started thinking "I wonder how difficult it is to fire a sniper rifle from that distance and hit a target"... so quite some achievement!

However, the plot was slightly predictable; as far as conspiracy stories go, it wasn't anything extraordinary. It worked fairly comfortably in the context of the film, but it wasn't particularly memorable.

Two reasons why saw this..
1. Antoine Fuqua
2. The poster.

Two things which cheated me..
1. Antoine Fuqua
2. The poster.

The first half of the film I liked very much. When Wahlberg heals and sets out to find those responsible for what happened is where the film loses it's steam.

Danny Glover is cool but nothing special after it's all said and done.

Same could be said with Ned Beatty.

Kate Mara could never speak and I'll still enjoy watching her in anything.

Michael Peña-there's just something about this guy that doesn't do it for me. I don't think I have liked him in anything other than Crash and World Trade Center.

Overall there are some cool sequences in the film and even though the plot appears to be an interesting one after the first 30 minutes you discover by the last act that you couldn't care less about why they framed Wahlberg at all.

Fun action, broken story.

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The fact that the character's last name is Swagger annoys me to no end, but this is still a really enjoyable action-thriller.

Average thriller with some good moments. I find it hard to be objective, having seen most of the movie at one time or another without ever having seen the whole thing until today.

Now I want to be perfectly honest with you - some movies I like and some movies I respect, but for a movie to really make an impact on me, I have to connect with it's main character on an emotion level. It usually helps if the character is a loner, a man of honor and all around badass, as it is with this movie (or "Gladiator", or "The Transporter", pardon my french). When in sync emotionally, we are talking about whole other level, man!

And that's why I love "The Shooter", and nobody can tell me otherwise (besides, this is a rare, endangered species - sniper action movie, and good one at that)!

Decent thriller. Wish they'd ended it 20 minutes earlier though. The neat tying up of all ends was unnecessary.

Típica película sobre conspiraciones donde el protagonista se ve traicionado y busca venganza para limpiar su honor. Tiene buenos efectos y mantiene al espectador enganchado a la historia.

Despite a fairly predictable plot, this still manages to be a decent action movie with some pretty good set-pieces, the first 10 minutes and the assaults on the two different compounds.

Despite those though, it never manages to rise above being nothing more than yet another action-conspiracy film with a main character that's pretty much a Jason Bourne rip-off.

esta es una de esas peliculas que le tienes que prestar mucha atencion para entenderla y poder encontrarle lo entretenido de esto... muy buena pelicula la recomiendo