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55
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54
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54
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53
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53
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51
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49
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47
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43
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42
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36
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31
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24
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86
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85
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83
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83
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83
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80
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80
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80
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80
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79
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78
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78
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76
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75
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75
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74
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73
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73
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72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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70
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68
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67
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66
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66
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66
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66
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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62
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62
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62
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61
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61
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61
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61
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61
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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53
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52
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51
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50
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49
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47
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46
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Shooter
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong graphic violence and some language
Starring
Mark Wahlberg,
Michael Peña,
Danny Glover,
Kate Mara,
Elias Koteas,
Rhona Mitra,
Jonathan Walker,
and
Justin Louis
Shooter is an edgy, non-stop action thriller about an honorable and brilliant marksman (Wahlberg) who finds himself in an unthinkable situation: framed as a Presidential assassin. Plunged into a shocking vortex of terror and conspiracy, the rogue shooter discovers the race is on to prove his innocence even as he is pursued by every law enforcement agency in the country, as well as a shadowy organization on a relentless manhunt aimed at destroying the secrets he has uncovered. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Drama
|
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jonathan Lemkin
Stephen Hunter (novel Point of Impact)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Antoine Fuqua
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 26, 2007
Theatrical: March 23, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
122 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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80
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Shooter is a generically titled studio action picture that turns out to be a surprisingly deft satire about Americans' loss of faith in their government following the 2000 election, the 9/11 attacks, and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Shooter does what any good thriller should accomplish - it thrills. It's fast-paced, energetic, and doesn't follow a path that seems pre-ordained from the beginning.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Wahlberg acquits himself well, and the supporting cast -- which includes pioneering rocker Levon Helm in a scene-stealing cameo as an aging gun buff who knows a thing or two about cover-ups, Ned Beatty as a corrupt politician, and a Strangelovian Rade Serbedzija -- is so strong you almost wish the film were longer so they could have more screen time.

75
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
The movie's politics may miss their mark, but its thrills are dead-on.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Unravels a bit heading toward its finale, as buildings explode and characters are forced to explain themselves and their nefarious motives. But the payoff at the end - at once kind of radical and gratuitous - delivers a wallop.

70
Time
Richard Corliss
Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude -- all in their 50s or 60s -- got too old to execute the leg lifts necessary to kick bad guys in the butt.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
If the movie only lavished as much thought and care on its characters as it does on each intricate set piece, Shooter might have been a classic.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Carrying Shooter through its difficulties is, finally, not its crisp action sequences and definitely not the torture. It's Wahlberg's performance, which is the film's most old-fashioned element, and its best.

70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
This maximalist approach can tax the nerves, though it has the benefit of keeping you on alert. It’s also pretty enjoyable. Mr. Fuqua, who happens to be surprisingly good with actors, does have a knack for chaos.

70
Washington Post
Scott Eyman
It's a story that can be transplanted from genre to genre, because we never grow tired of it, which is to say that it fits snugly into the paranoid drift of American movies, and the value we place on one honest man with a gun.

67
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The timing couldn't be better for a thriller that focuses on assassination, international war scandals and U.S. agencies of enormous influence and wildly varying competence.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A stylish but essentially businesslike smash-and-crasher.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
Like most modern action films, Shooter is too explicit, more interested in mayhem than motive.

63
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
It does move along at a nice clip, and delivers exactly what belligerent action fans on both sides of the political aisle want -- a wholly admirable figure blowing up a lot of bad s---.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Suspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes more bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade as hard-ass action escapism.

63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The paranoia is as thick and luscious as that Reddi-wip, and it's served from both left and right.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
An immediately involving yarn of an ace Marine sharpshooter set up to take the fall for an attempted presidential assassination, picture saddles itself with stereotypical villains, hokey contrivances and too-expedient crisis solutions.

60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The picture might be entertaining if it didn't take itself so seriously.

58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The film has about five endings, each sillier than the next. Before it's over, the business end of that sniper rifle looks kind of inviting.

50
Slate
Dana Stevens
Though much of the action in Shooter is beautifully photographed, the movie's force is as a blunt instrument of metaphor. Shooter is a video-game-fantasy version of the 2006 midterm elections, a howl of rage at the hypocrisy of the Bush presidency and the Iraq war.

50
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
This is the first big-studio action picture with some of the disgusted, bloody nihilism of the post-Vietnam era.

50
The New Yorker
David Denby
A virtual textbook of action clichés.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
An intermittently preposterous, drawn-out but sometimes entertaining story about an unstoppable ex-Marine.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Starts out OK, but then almost seems to be intentionally going for humor.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
If this were a more serious film, its cynicism about the U.S. government would put it in a league with "The Manchurian Candidate." But it is simply an Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick with bantamweight Wahlberg doing the heavy lifting for the preoccupied Governator.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The story is often ridiculous, but director Antoine Fuqua provides plenty of fun distractions.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Despite gripping chase sequences and a few awe-inspiring fiery explosions, gaping holes in the convoluted plot make Shooter heavier on style than substance.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
A screwy assassination thriller for these murky times, it takes half its pages from Soldier of Fortune and the other half from links provided by conspiracytheories-zapoppin.org.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The ultimate crime of this paranoid enemy-of-the-state pulp, directed with more style than brains by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is how dull it is.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Fuqua keeps the action moving efficiently, but he doesn't know when to stop piling it on, and eventually, Wahlberg's army of one becomes more a comic-book vigilante than a righteously disgruntled patriot.

40
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The result is lots of gunplay and explosions governed by little logic.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Sylvester Stallone is filming a new episode of his "Rambo" action series, but Mark Wahlberg has beaten him to the punch with Shooter, a preposterous gut buster that follows the formula so closely it would probably lose a plagiarism suit.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Less subversive and infinitely less intelligent than 1999’s Wahlberg-starrer "Three Kings," this movie does blow lots of s--- up real good and punish contemptible public figures otherwise left unaccountable for massacring African villagers.


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