About This Movie: Shooter
By Leroy Douresseaux
March 21, 2007 - 16:40
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PARAMOUNT PICTURES Presents
A Di Bonaventura Pictures Production
Shooter (2007)
DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua
WRITER: Jonathan Lemkin (based upon the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter)
PRODUCERS: Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ric Kidney
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Peter Menzies, Jr. ASC
EDITOR: Eric Sears, A.C.E.
COMPOSER: Mark Mancina
COSTUME DESIGNER: Ha Nguyen
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Dennis Washington
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover, Kate Maria, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Rade Sherbedgia, and Ned Beatt
Opening date: Friday, March 23, 2007
Running time: 124 minutes
Rating: MPAA - R for strong graphic violence and some language
From Antoine Fuqua, the director of Training Day, and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg ( The Departed) comes Shooter an action thriller about an honorable man framed as a Presidential assassin.
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Mark Wahlberg as the hero Bob Lee Swagger. |
After a mission goes badly, Marine Corps scout sniper, Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), walks away from the job forever for what he sees as a devastating betrayal. Sequestered in a remote mountain hideaway, Bob finds himself courted by Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover), who tells Swagger that his country desperately needs him. Johnson says he needs Swagger to help him foil an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, and only Swagger's lethal skills and expertise in long-range ballistics can help him stop the assassin.
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Danny Glover as the villain Col. Isaac Johnson |
Swagger is willing to do this "one last time" thing, but what he doesn't know is that the entire mission is a set-up by a secret government cabal with its own dark agenda. Suddenly, Swagger is a hunted man, and he has to uncover a conspiracy at the heart of American power in order to clear his name. Not only will Swagger have to discover who the real hit men are, but he'll also have to hit them before they hit him.
Mitch Emerson reviews this film: http://www.comicbookbin.com/Shooter_3026.html
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