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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361300702
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 3341
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 2007
Editorial Review:
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.'.
Amazon.com:
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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - If you liked Mark Wahlberg in the Bourne Films, You will like this movie
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.
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
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