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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 : $18.69
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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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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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Who Doesn't Love Mark Wahlberg!? |
I have never seen a sniper movie before, and was pleasantly surprised by this one. I may not have any experience with snipers or any type of guns or warfare, but I have in fact, watched a lot of movies. You get plenty of action, minimal love story (I don't like a lot of romance in my action movies), up to bar acting, and a solid plot.
The main character, Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is a former military sniper who gets caught up (more like used) in an assassination. Swagger, initially asked to make sure the President would be safe from an attack, ends up being set up for the assassination "attempt" that takes place. So it begins, intense chases, exciting shootouts, well planned set ups, and on-target sniper shooting. I won't go into the plot any further; especially since you have 200+ people I see who have laid it all out for you already. I will offer my review though, and I think this movie is worth a go, and eight dollars is not a bad price!
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