Shnoooper!!!
Oscar nominated Mark Wahlberg is back, in this years most high octane film about a SNIPER. In it Wahlberg plays Bob Lee Swagger, an army SNIPER, left high and dry in a covert op in Ethiopia - who resigns and lives with his dogs in the mountains. Disillusioned by the army, he still feels the call when rubbish Danny Glover asks him to design how a SNIPER might kill the President. Having done this, he is shocked to find himself fitted up for the SNIPER job (killing the man next to the President) and goes on a one man orgy of violence against them who done him wrong, predominantly with a SNIPER rifle as he picks off the baddies one by one.
The name of this film?
SHOOTER.
There’s dumbing down and there’s dumbing down and there’s just plane assuming your audience can barely read.
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Doctor Casino on May 3rd, 2007
Not sure how much it excuses anything, but my guess would be that this is one of those things that went into production before the extremely high-profile media coverage of the killing spree of the “DC Sniper” a year or two ago. Not sure how much of an impact that made across the pond, but it was big US news for a while, the hunting for the sniper, the sniper has killed again, they’ve caught the sniper, trial of the sniper… it’s really not a word anyone would want to attach to a hero, not before and certainly not after.
That said, “Shooter” really calls for it being a biopic about controversial Marvel Comics editor Jim Shooter.
FT's Pete Baran on May 3rd, 2007
I’m glad you made the Jim Shooter joke - I was trying to find a cosmic angle to all this.
Ah yes, i vaguely remember the DC Sniper. Who I suppose could have been Jim Shooter trying toundermine the distinguished competition.
My name is Kenny on May 8th, 2007
There’s already a movie called “Sniper.”
FT's CarsmileSteve on May 8th, 2007
there’s like eight movies called DOA though, so what is yr point?
FT's Pete Baran on May 8th, 2007
Yeah like anyone was going to confuse this with the Tom Berenger snooze fest from 1993.