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Wahlberg’s on the mark
SHOOTER
Directed by ANTOINE FUQUA
Certificate 15
THERE'S nothing like a good conspiracy thriller to set your nerves jangling.
Filmed at the relentless pace of TV’s 24, Mark Wahlberg stars as an ace sniper coerced by a hard-nosed colonel (Danny Glover) into helping the CIA foil an assassination attempt on the president.
What he doesn’t know is that it’s an elaborate double-cross, and he finds himself on the run in a massive manhunt where everyone is a potential enemy.
He takes refuge with the widow (Kate Mara) of an old buddy, staggering into her living room with two bullet holes in him – “Bad things happen to good people,” she says wistfully as he leaves his blood all over her carpet.
But our man is a match for everything Uncle Sam throws at him.
Sporting a beard and a don’t-mess-with-me attitude, Wahlberg stakes his claim in the Rambo-Terminator school of thought – shoot first, apologise later – as the body count goes through the roof.
With 30 stuntmen on the production’s payroll – including two for Mr Wahlberg alone – this is a film with non-stop, pounding action that’s designed to raise your pulse rate to a dangerous level.
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