Shooter (2007)
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
**3/4
Shooter starts out with the promise of ingenuity, the hint of revealing how complicated our nation's security interests are. It ends up just another instance of terrorism porn.
Mark Wahlberg is interesting as a former government marksman who has gone into seclusion after being abandoned on a mission. But he's not compelling; he's not, say, Jason Bourne. When he's found by officials and asked to help them figure out how someone would assassinate the president from almost a mile away, something stinks. We're not quite sure what it is, but by the end of the film, Mark's shooting up all kinds of well-meaning officers who just happen not to know his side of the story. Are we supposed to cheer for this guy when he leaves all moral boundary lines in the dust? To me, this was a great disappointment from a man who not so long ago directed one of the best contemporary morality plays out there.
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