Shooter
Mark Wahlberg and Danny Glover star in this action-packed thriller about a former Marine Corps sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service, he is double-crossed again. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt, The sniper begins his revenge, which will take down the most powerful people in the country.
I usually don’t get DVDs with Glover in them, but I had to make an exception for this one. Besides, Glover is the bad guy and the sniper gets his revenge.
Two thumbs up.
Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg), one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel (Glover) to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.
There was this interesting observation about the weapon used to fire at a helicopter in one of the scenes:
When Bob Lee is shooting at the helicopter with the M82 he manually cycles the bolt after every shot. Since the M82 is a semi automatic and is supposed to cycle itself this is often cited as a goof/factual error. In actuality he was firing blanks in a real (i.e. not a prop gun) –- a Barrett M82/M107. Because it’s an unaltered gun, the blanks aren’t powerful enough to cycle the action fully, so he had to manually cycle the gun after each shot.
Credit IMDB for the quoted content. Credit Amazon.com for the DVD jacket image.
