Rotten
The film's weird, thin politics become harder to swallow as it lurches from set-up to set-up.
Ben Walters, Time Out
Shooter
Yesterday was about honor. Today is about justice.
2007 · 2h 4m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Antoine Fuqua
Overview
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.
Director and cast
- Antoine Fuqua Director
- Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger
- Michael Peña as Nick Memphis
- Danny Glover as Colonel Isaac Johnson
- Kate Mara as Sarah Fenn
- Elias Koteas as Jack Payne
- Rhona Mitra as Alourdes Galindo
- Jonathan Walker as Louis Dobbler
- Louis Ferreira as Howard Purnell
- Rade Šerbedžija as Michael Sandor
- Tate Donovan as Russ Turner
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This is the first big-studio action picture (the director is Antoine Fuqua) with some of the disgusted, bloody nihilism of the post-Vietnam era.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
The engaging, fast-talking idiosyncrasy of [Wahlberg's] performance in The Departed has vanished.
David Denby, New Yorker
Rotten
It's one of those conspiracy thrillers that keeps on asking you to take a leap of faith, until you get tired of leaping and you just start laughing in all the wrong places.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Ballistic fetishists and anticorporate activists will find common ground in each violent act against political fat cats, but the rest of us are left to wallow in the bloodlust and wonder who switched the reels.
David Fear, Time Out New York
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