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Shooter [Blu-ray] 
Actors : Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas
Director : Antoine Fuqua
Studio : Paramount
by Paramount
Brand : Paramount
Release Date : 2008-06-03
Publisher : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0097361300702
UPC : 097361300702
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 258 reviews)
List Price : $29.99
Our Price : $17.38
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Product Description |
Paramount Shooter (Blu-ray)
Get ready for edge-of-your-seat thrills as Mark Wahlberg ignites the screen in his most compelling role yet: the "Shooter." When respected former Marine scout sniper Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is pressed into service to stop an assassination attempt against the President, the unthinkable occurs: he's double-crossed and framed for the attempt. Determined to prove his innocence,the rogue shooter is now in a high-tension race from every law enforcement agency in the country and a shadowy organization that wants him dead. From"Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua comes a gripping film co-starring Danny Glover ("Lethal Weapon 4") and Michael Pena ("World Trade Center"). Joel Siegel of Good Morning America proclaims that "'Shooter' is a thriller ...with a ton of white-knuckle action.". |
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A movie that would not have been out of place in the run of paranoid-political thrillers of the 1970s, Shooter works an entertaining variation on the assassination picture. Mark Wahlberg, carrying over good mojo from The Departed, slides neatly into the character of Bob Lee Swagger, master marksman. Swagger has retreated from his duty as an off-the-books hired gun for the military, having become disillusioned with his government (switching on his TV at his remote mountain cabin, he mutters, "Let's see what kind of lies they're trying to sell us today."). Ah, but the government needs Swagger to scope out the location of a rumored attempt on the life of the president, so a shadowy government operative (Danny Glover) begs Swagger to use his sniper's skills to out-fox the assassin. From there--well, spoilers are not fair, since the movie has a few legitimate shocks and a very nice wrong-man scenario about to unfold. A novel by the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Stephen Hunter gives the movie a logical spine, even if the premise itself is the stuff of conspiracy theorists. Wahlberg gets support from Michael Pena, as a skeptical FBI agent; Kate Mara, as a trustworthy widow; and Ned Beatty, trailing along memories of Network, as a supremely cynical Senator. Along with the well-executed action sequences (the previously unreliable director Antoine Fuqua gets it in gear here), the movie includes a few potshots at the Bush administration. No, that doesn't put Shooter at the level of The Parallax View or All the President's Men, but it provides some tang along with the flying bullets. --Robert Horton Beyond Shooter 
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The Novel | Stills from Shooter (click for larger image) |
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You're on target to lose 125 minutes of your life. |
Rented this to counter-balance wife's choice of "What Happens in Vegas" (that was better than expected). That the people who produced this "hit piece" were going to ignore facts and try to brow beat you into believing their "anti-America, anti-Republican" message.
SPOILERS: It begins with a sniper team (supposedly Marines) covering an extraction team. The spotter takes the time to gaze at a picture of his cute wife and ponder the ethics and purpose of their mission while they literally chew their cud. The action starts with Mark Wahlberg knocking off targets with casual ease but when a larger force "appears" they call for backup; especially when the bad guys manage to set up mortars ranged onto their position instantaneously. At the Army base, some civilian pulls the plug on the supposedly covert operation by saying that they will get out on their own and to break camp immediately. The spotter gets gunned down by a helicopter (Why are they always making runs rather than hovering?) Oh whoa is "Swagger" (why not just name the character Johnny Bigc*ck?). Suddenly it's three years later and Swagger has hair longer than my mother, living in the rugged Northwest. Danny Glover sets him up by telling him that he alone can help them counteract a threat against the president in a manner that'll leave your four year old scratching their head. Swagger is referred to as a Sgt., SSgt. and a Gunny, throughout the film; supposedly he "retired" right after he got back to the States. WTF? The movie quickly dissolves into a farce in which characters are made to do one thing one scene and another the next without any logical connection. Non-subtle digs at Republicans (Presidential portraits in Glover's "office"), the current administration ("They thought there were WMD's in Iraq!" one character quips), "Big Oil" (that first operation was to cover a group of "contractors" killing off a village that refused to move when "we" decided to run a pipeline through their location), corporations ("There's no head [of the bad guys] to cut off. It's a corporation.") and the military (I hope there wasn't any military advisor on this POS as they'd likely now be suicide candidate). The ridiculousness reaches higher and higher as the film goes on... Swagger easily evading capture from countless law enforcement types in broad daylight, running a straight line across open fields without getting hit by whithering gunfire (ala' Arnold in "Commando"), going MacGuyver in local supermarkets, repulsing two cops and their German Shepard like Jason Bourne but with the added kicker of sticking one cops' arm into the jaws of the attacking dog! A certain amount of belief needs to be suspended when watching any movie, I know, but we're supposed to buy into the notion that Swagger's dead partner's wife is a hot, young thing that is a single school teacher in fictitious Keen, KY after three years, wears skimpy clothes when answering the door and can perform surgery (despite the fact that becoming a nurse was her dead husband's dream, not hers due to a dislike of the sight of blood!). The "hero-done-wrong" in these type movies always receive supporting aid and in this one it's provided by an at first bumbling FBI agent who then is an authority on ancient battlefield medical remedies and later, with a quick flashbang lesson, is, Ta-Da! a sniper, too!!!
I could not stand the headache this garbage pile brought on, went to the head and promptly produced something better. Before this, "Independence Day" (which I walked out of the theater on) was one of the worst assaults upon my intelligence. "Enemy State" ranked right up there though fortunately that was rented and quickly returned. This puts everything this movie-lover has seen to shame. I can not explain how any enjoyment could be experienced from watching this but if there was, then the makers of this film were at least partly correct: the common American is stupid, gullible and easily lead around by the nose. |
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Movie: 3.25~4/5 Picture Quality: 4.25~5/5 Sound Quality: 3.5~4/5 Extras: 2.25/5 |
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Format: Blu-ray
MPEG-2 BD-50
Running time: 2:05:41
Movie size: 30,405,734,400 bytes
Disc size: 39,058,040,880 bytes
Average Video Bit Rate: 28.36 Mbps
DD AC3 5.1 640Kbps
Extras:
(*)Survival of the Fittest: Making of Shooter
(*)Independence Hall
(*)Deleted Scenes
Version: U.S.A
Format: HD DVD
MPEG-4 AVC HD-30
Running time: 2:05:37
Movie size: 22,523,803,648 bytes
Disc size: 28,782,408,985 bytes
Average Video Bit Rate: 20.48 Mbps
DDPlus 5.1 1536Kbps |
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Amazing Adventure Political Thriller |
This is a great film. Mark Wahlberg is always reliable for turning in a quality performance so sometimes he can be taken for granted. Remember how he shocked everyone with his excellent performance in Boogie Nights? Well here he possesses an amazingly strong constant presence that never lets up. He is an action adventure superstar.
The simple basis of the plot is that he is a shooter for the war/government in retirement and is called upon to undertake a special mission. That is all I will say for nothing else about this movie is simple.
The movie is a high octave full force action thriller and the action sequences are amazing lighting up the screen. There is graphic violence but it is very well executed and fits the format of the film. It is not gratuitous. The film is also a thriller with a strong political edge. How all this mixes together so expertly is due to the true craftsmen who have put this film together. And Wahlberg allows the strong esemble cast to shine and does not try to steal the show even though it is totally his.
This movie literally blew me away. I really did love it. It is over 2 hours in length and the time flew by with action and shocks and plot twist too many to mention. Highly recommend. |
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If you liked Mark Wahlberg in the Bourne Films, You will like this movie |
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If you liked Mark Wahlberg in the Bourne movies, you will most likely enjoy this movie. It is action packed and movies quickly except for a few preachy moments at the end. As a person who has enjoyed long range target shooting and am familiar with the Barret 50 Cal capabilities, I know that the shots in this film were all realistic. |
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Hollywoodimess Turkeyanus |
"The Shooter" is a movie obviously intended for 15 y.o. schoolboys and Michael Moore/Oliver Stone aficionados. It is truly the worst movie that I've seen in some time. It relies entirely on old Hollywood standbys--fatal wounds that the hero recovers from; car chase scenes; heroes that never miss; bad guys who always miss; sinister government plots; sinister FBI characters etc.
It's an Oliver Stone film on crack. There are echoes of "JFK" i.e. the three guys on the grassy knoll are buried in Terlingua. "Hey, I've still got the shovel!" There are even echoes of the Ruby Ridge massacre. Our 'hero' is living way out in the woods. The FBI shoots his dog. Man, man, man, really original stuff.
The plot is far too complex, far too complex to follow, but, not to worry, the director explains it in the end. The government killed 400 villagers in Ethiopia so that an oil pipeline could go through [get that, folks, evil oil]. Now we don't quite know why they were killed but apparently it's so other villagers will get the message and just get up and move away. Logical. Our hero and his shooter friend, shoot Ethiopian retaliation forces but of this I was never clear. Maybe they were they were shooting the bad guys who did the village murders and our hero, in turn, murders them as a cover-up. Not to worry. Our hero doesn't know who he's shooting, either, and, the government, rather than extract or heroes, shoots them up with a helicopter and his friend is killed. Of course, as we are watching all this we have no clue as to what's happening...we have to wade through hours and hours of this turkey dreck hoping that maybe somebody will make sense of it. Truly, they never really do.
Our hero, after his return, is intelligently employed to detect a long range sniper trying to kill the President. It's at an outdoor Presidential review featuring the archbishop of Ethiopia [is there an archbishop of Ethiopia?]. Boom! Goes a shot which we learn later, deliberately misses the President and kills the Ethiopian. Perfect good sense. Suddenly the cops are shooting our hero--again, we have no way of knowing why. Despite the fact that the hero is shot through the axillary artery, which would have killed him in minutes, and through the gut, which would have disabled him in hours, and killed him in a day or two, our super-hero soldiers on to kill thousands and thousands of bad guys [make that agents and U.S. soldiers] with rifles, pistols, machine guns, garrots, karote and miscellaneous bombs.
Wow!!! What a guy! And he does all this while mumbling his lines which adds to the mystery of the whole thing.
Now, a word for the writers, directors and producers, if they ever read these things. Why in H... can't you use just a tad of originality? Why does it always have to be all this Hollywood BS and tripe? Are you imbeciles or just younger than 22? Do you still have problems with acne? Who are you going to vote for in November? Yeah, I know, it's just a joke. The whole stinkin' thing is a joke. Get your stuff together, boys and girls. You have nothing to lose but your American Civil Liberties card.
Ron Braithwaite |
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