More Distrust of the Government
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OCT
31
2007
Shooter, Widescreen Edition DVD —
With all the movies out lately giving us reason to not trust our government, it ought to be making politicians straighten up and realize they've got some changes to make. Currently in theaters is Rendition, starring Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, about our own government shipping suspected terrorists out of the country to torture them so that it can be done off U.S. soil. Earlier this year another hating the Government film, Shooter, was in the theaters, and just recently it has been released on DVD. It certainly makes you wonder what's up with all the hate and if the things they are charging in these films are true or if they entirely fiction.Mark Wahlberg stars in Shooter as Bob Lee Swagger, an expert shooter, hence the clever name, that worked for the government on special missions. After becoming guilt-ridden leading his best friend into a battle which got him killed, Swagger becomes a hermit up in the mountains, somewhat of a modern day Grizzly Adams. He only has his dog, which he shares dog treats with, for company.
Swagger is sought out by a team of guys (Danny Glover, Elias Koteas among others) representing the U.S. government and tell him they know someone is attempting to assassinate the president, so they need him to scope it out and figure out how it will be done, so that they can stop him before it happens. He turns the offer down, but eventually caves in, only for it to be an elaborate set-up, as he gets framed for an attempt on the life of the president that instead took down an Ethiopian official.
Despite being shot twice, this expert marksman makes an escape, hides out at his old friend's widow's (Sarah Fenn) house and makes an ally of one of the least unlikely people (Michael Pena). Swagger knows as soon as his mission goes awry that it was a set-up and that the good guys aren't really the good guys, but it gets deeper and deeper into it as even a senator (Ned Beatty) appears to be involved. Swagger spends the rest of the movie trying to find ways of convincing everyone else of his set-up.
I had somehow missed this movie in the theater and waited for it to come out on DVD, but I have to admit I was slightly disappointed. I always enjoy Wahlberg and Glover, but there was just nothing about this film that brought excitement. For an action film, it could have been so much more so, and I suspect that's why it never really made a big showing in the theaters before quietly slipping away to DVD. It's not a bad film, and it has an interesting story, but it just seemed to misfire and miss some important things along the way.
Shooter, Widescreen Edition DVD is not recommended by LauraBelle
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