Shooter

Coming off of his astounding performance in Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Mark Wahlberg shows why he is one of the finest actors in the business. In Shooter, Wahlberg plays an ex-military man who is brought back in to try to stop a possible assassination of the President. Or so we think. Along the way, Wahlberg gets setup by the villainous Danny Glover and the scheming Senator, played by Ned Beatty.

Aside from a story line that seems to wander at times, the film works well with Wahlberg in the lead. What really works well in the film is use of the camera to tell the story. Using a mixture of shots, director Antoine Fugua, known mainly for Training Day, creates a film that has sustained suspense. B+.