Shooter (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Antoine Fuqua |
| Produced by | Lorenzo di Bonaventura |
| Written by | Stephen Hunter (novel) Jonathan Lemkin (screenplay) |
| Starring | Mark Wahlberg Danny Glover Ned Beatty Michael Peña Kate Mara |
| Music by | Mark Mancina |
| Cinematography | Peter Menzies |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 23, 2007 |
| Running time | 124 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~$60 million [1] |
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Shooter is a 2007 action film directed by Antoine Fuqua. The film is very-loosely based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. Shooter was released on March 23, 2007.
[edit] Synopsis
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is a former United States Marine Corps sniper who left the Marines after a mission left his best friend and spotter dead. Supposedly the FBI approaches him to help entrap a potential assassin, who may attempt to shoot the President at one of three possible locations. After being framed, every law enforcement agency is after him, and he is forced to use his military training so that justice prevails.
Shooter was filmed mainly in British Columbia, Canada.
[edit] Plot
Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is one of the few snipers in the world whose sharpshooting abilities allow him to "take out a target from a mile away". He reluctantly leaves a self-imposed exile from his isolated Wyoming mountain home by retired Colonel Isaac Johnson (Glover) and a team of FBI agents. Johnson appeals to his expertise and patriotism to help track down a purported presidential assassin who plans on shooting the president from a great distance with an extremely high powered rifle.
Things begin to go wrong when the "Ethiopian archbishop", scheduled to speak next to the president in Philadelphia, is shot instead. Swagger is immediately shot twice by a corrupt cop, but manages to escape, realizing that he has been framed for the assassination attempt. The corrupt FBI agents tell the police and public that Swagger is the shooter, and stage a massive manhunt for the injured sniper. A lengthy chase scene takes place, but Swagger manages to escape and take refuge with his late partner's widow Sarah Fenn (Mara). She saves his life by removing the bullets embedded in Swaggers body, and a healing Swagger later convinces her to help him contact novice FBI agent Nick Memphis (Pena). Memphis was blamed for allowing Swagger's escape, and in the process of being disciplined for negligence has independently learned that Swagger was framed for the assassination.
Once the corrupt agents realize their security has been compromised, they brutally attempt to stage a faked suicide of Memphis, as well as track down and kill Swagger. Swagger and Memphis join forces against the government conspirators after Swagger tails the agents and rescues Memphis from his captors. Together they plot strategically to capture the real assassin, who turns out to be an agent allied with Colonel Johnson. Once they find him, the corrupt agent commits suicide after revealing that the Ethiopian archbishop was actually the real target of the assassins, and was murdered in order to prevent him from speaking out against U.S. involvement in the genocide of an African village. The genocide occured in order to advance the aims of a consortium of American corporate interests headed by corrupt U.S. Senator Charles Meachum (Beatty). Swagger records the corrupt agents dying confession as proof of the involvement in the African genocide, and he and Memphis stage a spectacular escape from a booby trap laid by the consortium to silence them.
Meanwhile, the other corrupt agents have tracked down and captured Sarah Fenn in order to entrap Swagger. With his new evidence and some persuasion, Swagger and Memphis are able to rescue her when Colonel Johnson and Senator Meachum arrange a meeting to exchange their hostage for Swagger's evidence of their wrongdoing. After a bloody game of cat and mouse in an isolated mountain range, Swagger and Memphis finally surrender to the FBI. Later appearing in court, the corrupt officials could not be tried for actions committed in Africa, but is exonerated and set free. In the denouement, Swagger implements his own system of justice by intruding on a country house get together for the murderous Colonel and Senator. None of the conspirators escape, and Swagger presumably leaves no evidence behind as he leaves his murderous past behind to pursue a new life with Sarah Fenn.
