2008 Woodie Awards
Want to see some action
Ericka Christensen
Issue date: 4/18/07 Section: Opinion
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Shooter is a modern day Rambo-esque flick. The film is a brilliant mixture of suspense and drama. The theme is an "old West" vigilante style of justice. This picture is action packed so the audience does not have time to notice some of the unbelievable elements and the use of low budget camera fades instead of delivering high budget graphics. Overall this is a movie worth seeing on the silver screen.
Mark Wahlberg plays a U.S. Marine sniper (Bob Lee Swagger). In the opening scenes he and his spotter are left behind enemy lines on a mission in Ethiopia by their coldhearted superiors. Only Swagger makes it back alive. He quits the Corps and moves with his dog into the woods to live as a survivalist hermit.
Swagger is drawn back into service by Col. Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) under the pretense that Johnson's gotten wind of a presidential assassination plot. Johnson wants to use the sniper's unparalleled expertise to figure out how the scheme will unfold, and foil it.
This quickly turns out to be a ruse. Before you can say "patsy" Swagger is on the run, bleeding and seething; and then on the hunt himself and in high kill mode, aided by a disgruntled FBI agent played by Michael Pena.
Based on the novel Point of Impact, by Stephen Hunter, this movie changes the plot to include some political parallels and quips about the current administration and the global "War on Terrorism".
This conspiracy theory thrives on cynicism regarding the evil the government will do to get a good price on crude oil under the guise of spreading democracy and freedom. It includes spying, rendition, Third World genocide, and a reference to Abu Ghraib. In an added twist, the military-industrial-oil-weasel complex is directed by a shotgun shooting, Montana senator (hmmm can you say Cheney).
The movie is full of lines like: "There are no Sunnis or Shiites, there are no Republicans or Democrats, there are only the haves and the have nots." The film stops short of accusing the villains of masterminding 9/11, but maybe just because they lacked the manpower.
Mid-manhunt, Swagger and Nick Memphis (Pena) visit a rural gun whiz played by Levon Helm. Casually the old-timer mentions that he was the one who buried the bodies of the grassy knoll shooters on Nov. 22, 1963. "I still have the shovel!"
While Swagger is on the hunt to clear his name and get justice he launches his own war against the corrupt government officials. The suspense never ends. All in all it will keep you on the edge of your seat. Grab some popcorn and enjoy.
Mark Wahlberg plays a U.S. Marine sniper (Bob Lee Swagger). In the opening scenes he and his spotter are left behind enemy lines on a mission in Ethiopia by their coldhearted superiors. Only Swagger makes it back alive. He quits the Corps and moves with his dog into the woods to live as a survivalist hermit.
Swagger is drawn back into service by Col. Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) under the pretense that Johnson's gotten wind of a presidential assassination plot. Johnson wants to use the sniper's unparalleled expertise to figure out how the scheme will unfold, and foil it.
This quickly turns out to be a ruse. Before you can say "patsy" Swagger is on the run, bleeding and seething; and then on the hunt himself and in high kill mode, aided by a disgruntled FBI agent played by Michael Pena.
Based on the novel Point of Impact, by Stephen Hunter, this movie changes the plot to include some political parallels and quips about the current administration and the global "War on Terrorism".
This conspiracy theory thrives on cynicism regarding the evil the government will do to get a good price on crude oil under the guise of spreading democracy and freedom. It includes spying, rendition, Third World genocide, and a reference to Abu Ghraib. In an added twist, the military-industrial-oil-weasel complex is directed by a shotgun shooting, Montana senator (hmmm can you say Cheney).
The movie is full of lines like: "There are no Sunnis or Shiites, there are no Republicans or Democrats, there are only the haves and the have nots." The film stops short of accusing the villains of masterminding 9/11, but maybe just because they lacked the manpower.
Mid-manhunt, Swagger and Nick Memphis (Pena) visit a rural gun whiz played by Levon Helm. Casually the old-timer mentions that he was the one who buried the bodies of the grassy knoll shooters on Nov. 22, 1963. "I still have the shovel!"
While Swagger is on the hunt to clear his name and get justice he launches his own war against the corrupt government officials. The suspense never ends. All in all it will keep you on the edge of your seat. Grab some popcorn and enjoy.
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