Shooter

SHOOTER (2007) - Mar. 21, 2007
A silly, overlong but essentially entertaining film, featuring Mark Wahlberg as a sniper who is framed for an assassination, who then slowly gets his revenge. The film absolutely wallows in hackneyed cliches; I don't think there's a single element here film that felt fresh, from the shadowy government cabal orchestrating the conspiracy to Wahlberg himself. The dialogue also tends to veer into hokey territory more often than not. But there were some good sequences, some nice throwbacks to action films of the '80s, and the film was reasonably enjoyable throughout. **1/2