Shooter [HD DVD]
by Antoine Fuqua
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Actor: Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peņa, Rhona MitraDirector: Antoine Fuqua
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Peter Menzies Jr.
Producer: Erik Howsam
Producer: Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Producer: Mark Johnson
Producer: Ric Kidney
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Writer: Stephen Hunter
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Shooter [HD DVD]
Movie Review: X-files fans will really enjoy this HD-DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
When I bought my Toshiba A20 I picked a few movies to start out with. Having personal sniper training, I thought this would be interesting, so I bought it with the player. The sniping is dead nuts on.
One of the main themes is there are two governments - the one we all elected and the back room cigarette smoke filled ambiance that really controls what happens in the USA. The plot twists are numerous and one unknown actor does his part with grace and dignity. That "curious" part of the human beign comes out to show that the patsy was really setup, but the teaching of the art of sniping comes into play to bring the bad guys down.
To give you an idea of how powerful this film was I bought it with one staring a favorite actor, Morgan Freeman, and 3 of 3 people who watched The Shooter felt it was better than Morgan's showing. I already expected Morgan's film to be better, but the shooter was just too edge of the seat to let me down.
For anyone entering the HD-DVD market, I'd highly recommend "the shooter" and any X-Files fans will immediately watch it twice.
Both the Morgan Freeman and The Shooter were exceptional HD-DVD films. I've quit buying DVDs now because of the picture quality on my home theater. This ranks a 10/10.
Summary of Shooter [HD DVD]
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service, Swagger is double-crossed again. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt, Swagger begins his revenge, which will take down the most powerful people in the country.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
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