Shooter

getting even (2009-06-28)
wild plot but this could happen-I will have the last word if you screw over me

I did not receive this item!!! (2009-06-11)
I did not receive this video. I don't know why I keep having to tell you this but if it continues you will be losing a customer!!!

Too stupid for me (2009-06-09)
Mark Wahlberg feature that is just awful. Made it about half-hour into it before turning it off. Just too stupid for me.

Movie - The Shooter (2009-05-28)
I am very happy with my purchase. The seller was pronpt on the shipment, and the movie arrive in perfect shape.

This was the best I've seen in a long time (2009-05-18)
Short Attention Span Summary:

1. The movie opens with Mark Wahlberg doing his job with another guy. There is some blow up, and only Wahlberg survives.

2. Later, he goes into isolation, living with his dog. Some government officials find him and recruit him for one last job (planning an assassination but not carrying it out).

3. During the job, a crooked cop (who is part of what turns out to be a grand conspiracy) tries to assassinate him, but he manages to escape.

4. After a very long series of implausible lucky chances, he goes to visit the widow of his old partner (who was killed in the first scene in the movie).

5. The only person who believes that he is innocent is a rookie FBI official, and so the rookie too becomes part of this game.

6. Eventually, the whole plan is exposed (including the Senator and the other government official), but because of some technicalities none of the government officials are indicted.

7. Wahlberg is let free to go, but kills the crooked government officials anyway.

This movie was pretty good overall. There were some disturbing things/ points that the movie tried to make without talking.

1. All of the bad guys were wearing American flags on their lapel pins. What was the latent message of this?

2. Could any corruption really go that far up before someone noticed? Can one single senator really order the FBI around?

3. The bad guy was a senior Senator who had been on the take for some time. So was the film's writer trying to suggest that the corruption was very deep and also extant over a very long time?

4. In one scene, they had the good guy wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. Hmmmm. I wonder what they could have been getting at there.

There were also problems with the believability of the film (even though it moved fast enough to not give the viewer time to sit and think about said problems):

1. Could a sharpshooter really train an accomplice THAT fast?

2. In the scene where he went to meet the crooked Senator and crooked FBI official, where did he get the helicopter to do that? In fact, where was any of his money coming from (since the government had frozen all of his assets and tried to destroy his life)? Did he have that much laying around in cash?

3. He randomly went to the old guy Looking For Answers, and the old guy just happened to know what he wanted to know and just happened to have lived through other government conspiracies. Umm, ok.

4. The Archbishop of Ethiopia was assassinated because he was the ONLY ONE who knew that a whole village had been wiped out because of an oil pipeline?

Other than that, the movie was great. The cinematography, acting and casting were all top notch. And Wahlberg is still nice looking even after all these years.

The plot was enough to keep you interested-- even if you don't like the hidden message.