Shooter (HD DVD)

The latest rent cheque crossed my sweaty palms. What should I do with this money? Should I invest it in buying my own house so that I could stop losing all my money to my landlord? Should I save up some money towards a holiday as my partner and I have never been away in 7 years together? Of course not, these suggestions are far too sensible for the likes of me, when my partner gave me the last rent cheque I went out and bought a new HDTV. So what does every HDTV need? A HD film player! Walking home that day weighed down with a BluRay playing Playstation 3 I realised that I would have to rent a film to watch in crystal clear High Definition. So I arrived at my ...

Mark Wahlberg impressed me a lot in The Departed, until that film I had considered him an ok actor, good enough but not really a leading man in a major movie, let alone an action movie. His performance in that made Shooter a much more agreeable prospect. Shooter is a modern Arnie film, a mix of Raw Deal and Commando with a little bit of conspiracy thrown in. Wahlberg is a Bob Lee Swagger, a US Marine sniper who, in the opening scenes, is in action in Ethiopia. Left stranded by his commander he makes his way back on his own and takes a discharge from the army, no longer having faith in the officers. Three years later he lives in a shack on a mountain, ...

Sufficient time has now passed since 911 for Hollywood to start showing their irritation over the war in Iraq and Americans dodgy foreign policy with some serious films tackling the oil in the Middle East issue, Syriana and the later series of 24 really getting into the link between oil, terror and the C.I.A, and how America has to boss and then bend to the middle East to continue their greedy oil consumption. With 1.9 cars to every 1.7 humans that love of the automobile hasn't diminished. When reasonably dumb but enjoyable action movies like 'Shooter' start making that point you know the standing U.S President must be on his way out. Shooter, directed by the ...