ShooterFrom Anoine Fuqua, the director of "Training Day", and starring Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Mark Wahlberg ("The Departed," "Invincible") comes an edgy, non stop action thriller about an honorable and brilliant marksman who finds himself in an unthinkable situation: framed as a Presidential assassin.
Plunged into a shoking vortex of terror and conspiracy, the rogue shooter discovers the race is on the prove his innocence even terror and conspiracy, the rogue shooter dicovers the race is on to probe his innocence even as he is pursued by every law enforcement agency in the country, as well as a shadowy organization on a relentless manhunt aimed at destrying the secrets he has uncovered.
In a gripping action performance, Mark Wahlberg stars as Bob Lee Swagger, a former Marine scout sniper and disgruntled American hero who thougt he had walked away from the job forever after a devasting betrayal. Now despite having sequestered himself in a stunning but remote mountain hideaway. Bob us approached by retired Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover), who tells him the country desperatly needs him. As Johnson tells it, an assasination attempt on the President of United States is imminent and only Sagger's lethal skills and savvy expertise in long-range ballistics ca halt the threat.
Sagger reluctantly agrees one last time to serve his country - but what he doesn't know is that the entire mission is a set-up by a dark government cabal with its own agents. By the time Swagger realizes the event has been rigged, it's too late. Suddently, he finds himself in the headlines as the lone gunman who tried to shoot the President. Hunted at every turn, with nowhere to hide and no one to help him except a mystified woman he's just met (Kate Mara) and novice FBI agent risking his career (Michael Pena), Swagger is in a desperate battle wich will put everything he knows the best. The clock is ticking as he tries to figureout who the real hit men are before they hit him. But Swagger soon realizes even more than his own survival is at stake - because he's about to lift the veil off a devasting conspiracy at the very heart of American power.
Shooter
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Shooter
- Credits:
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer: Jonathan Lemkin
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Rade Sherbedgia
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Adaptation
Release Date: March 23rd, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic violence and some language.
Distributors: Paramount Pictures
Source: shootermovie.com
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