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- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceShooter is a generically titled studio action picture that turns out to be a surprisingly deft satire about Americans' loss of faith in their government following the 2000 election, the 9/11 attacks, and the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliShooter does what any good thriller should accomplish - it thrills. It's fast-paced, energetic, and doesn't follow a path that seems pre-ordained from the beginning.
- It's a story that can be transplanted from genre to genre, because we never grow tired of it, which is to say that it fits snugly into the paranoid drift of American movies, and the value we place on one honest man with a gun.
- 63Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversSuspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes more bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade as hard-ass action escapism.
- 63PremiereGlenn KennyPremiereGlenn KennyIt does move along at a nice clip, and delivers exactly what belligerent action fans on both sides of the political aisle want -- a wholly admirable figure blowing up a lot of bad s---.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsA screwy assassination thriller for these murky times, it takes half its pages from Soldier of Fortune and the other half from links provided by conspiracytheories-zapoppin.org.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe ultimate crime of this paranoid enemy-of-the-state pulp, directed with more style than brains by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is how dull it is.
- 40Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe result is lots of gunplay and explosions governed by little logic.
- 25Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSylvester Stallone is filming a new episode of his "Rambo" action series, but Mark Wahlberg has beaten him to the punch with Shooter, a preposterous gut buster that follows the formula so closely it would probably lose a plagiarism suit.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarrit IngmanAustin ChronicleMarrit IngmanLess subversive and infinitely less intelligent than 1999’s Wahlberg-starrer "Three Kings," this movie does blow lots of s--- up real good and punish contemptible public figures otherwise left unaccountable for massacring African villagers.