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Marky Mark Hits The Mark In "Shooter"

By Taylor Wilkey ‘07

Mark Wahlberg plays Bob Lee Swagger in the action drama Shooter. The film features a retired U.S. marine sniper (Wahlberg) who is recruited and re-enlisted to stop the assassination of the President (Tom Butler). As it turns out, this is all a set up to pin the assassination on Swagger.

Luckily, he is able to avoid capture and tells FBI Agent Nick Memphis (Michael Peña) that he is innocent. Swagger and Memphis then go looking for the person who framed him. They end up on the top of a mountain where Wahlberg gives a monologue, where I noticed that you can hear the hint of a Boston accent.

Unfortunately, this movie is extremely similar to the action thriller Bourne Identity staring Matt Damon. The only thing in the movie I found funny was when Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover) was searching for Agent Memphis and instead of using the billion dollar satellite, this covert government agency used the “high tech” program Google maps to find him.

This being my last review for the Tradesman, I would like to thank Ms. Rebello for giving me the chance to do what I love, watch movies.

I will leave you with this quote from Roger Ebert: “We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds-not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters…but by seeing the world as another person sees it.”