Shooter (2007)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2007
	Director: Antoine Fuqua (Olympus has fallen)
	Actors: Mark Wahlberg (Transformers 4, Ted, Pain & Gain), Michael Peña (Battle Los Angeles), Rhona Mitra (Doomsday), Kate Mara (Transcendence), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon 1-4)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 23.04.2015, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg), expert army sniper, retires after loosing his partner. He is contacted by a shadow governmental organization to prevent a presidential assassination attempt.
Review: In a phase of watching many SF movies, I was missing some good old spy thriller / conspiracy movie in the line of a Jason Bourne or a Jack Ryan. The ambitions of Shooter are lesser but it delivered what I was looking for, although the story is not very surprising nor subtle:  the ex-military set up and left for dead (like in Machete) coming back to get his revenge on the crooked politician and government official. Mark Wahlberg is good and Danny Glover is showing off. I haven't seen Clint Eastwood's American Sniper but I guess the approach to the two movies is very different. In Shooter we just expect the guy to kick ass and deliver his own justice at the end, and this is what we get. I liked it.
Rating: 6 /10