Wahlberg isn't as confident or credible as a tough guy with a mantle of regret.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 28, 2007

An impressive shoot-'em-up, work-it-out action drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2007

The cinematic equivalent of one of those chunky special-forces-porn airport novels.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2007

Ultimately, it's just a vigilante picture with ideas above its station.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2007

The film's weird, thin politics become harder to swallow as it lurches from set-up to set-up.

| Apr 12, 2007

It's no masterpiece, but it's way better than the usual big gun/small brain fare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2007

This is the first big-studio action picture (the director is Antoine Fuqua) with some of the disgusted, bloody nihilism of the post-Vietnam era.

| Mar 26, 2007

The engaging, fast-talking idiosyncrasy of [Wahlberg's] performance in The Departed has vanished.

| Mar 26, 2007

It's one of those conspiracy thrillers that keeps on asking you to take a leap of faith, until you get tired of leaping and you just start laughing in all the wrong places.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2007

Ballistic fetishists and anticorporate activists will find common ground in each violent act against political fat cats, but the rest of us are left to wallow in the bloodlust and wonder who switched the reels.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Mar 24, 2007

Less subversive and infinitely less intelligent than 1999's Wahlberg-starrer Three Kings.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 23, 2007

As the body count increases, the kills become so gratuitous that the effect is numbing, like watching a line of metal ducks get pinged at the state fair.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Mar 23, 2007

Shooter is an honorable rather than exceptional addition to the canon.

| Mar 23, 2007

Despite gripping chase sequences and a few awe-inspiring fiery explosions, gaping holes in the convoluted plot make Shooter heavier on style than substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Shooter doesn't try to be anything but a simple piece of pure action escapism and, on that level, it definitely hits the target.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2007

It may not qualify as a masterpiece, yet is a masterful thriller nonetheless.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Though much of the action in Shooter is beautifully photographed, the movie's force is as a blunt instrument of metaphor.

| Mar 23, 2007

[A] competent if uninspired action thriller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007

Shooter won't win any Oscars, but it has blood and brains, and even some heart. They're splattered all over the screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

The crushing two-hour-plus running time and Tom Clancy-for-dummies plot sabotage the film, which becomes particularly ridiculous in the last 30 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2007