Shooter is a kinetic melodrama, long on action, short on credulity, which relies on Mark Wahlberg's steely edge to keep it from devolving into farce. Director Antoine Fuqua showed with Training Day that he is more interested in keeping things moving than...read the complete Shooter (2007) review at Tiscali UK
Now living in exile, former US Marine sharpshooter Bob Swagger (Wahlberg) is persuaded to help his country again after intelligence learns of an audacious plot, supposedly to assassinate the President. However, he finds himself double-crossed and framed...read the complete Shooter (2007) review at FilmJudge (David Mercier)
I find Mark Wahlberg to be a very odd actor. There are times when I think he’s a great actor with a lot of onscreen charisma and the type of guy that can carry a film. However, about four or five times a film, he’ll deliver a line or do something that...read the complete Shooter (2007) review at DVD Clinic ("Sturdy")
Mark Wahlberg joins the ranks of the invincible one-man army with Shooter, a movie that begins with a semblance of rationality, then flies off the rails, plunging into a series of bloody shootouts and pointless explosions. By the time the ridiculous...read the complete Shooter (2007) review at The Arizona Republic