Shooter

In April 2020, I watched Shooter for the first time on TV. The action thriller movie was released in 2007. It was serious and fun. 

The movie follows Swagger, a U.S. Army veteran and almighty sniper who receives a request from a retired U.S. Army Colonel who has still been connected to a U.S. senior government officer. Actually, the request is a trap to make the veteran a scapegoat, which has been set by the Colonel and his followers. Swagger somehow escapes from the setup and starts to fight back. 

It was serious but seems to be a parody of the Kennedy assassination. The lead was Mark Wahlberg. I watched the former rapper for the first time in The Yards released in 2000 which Joaquin Phoenix and Charlize Theron appeared in together. Now, the three of them have all become movie superstars. In it Wahlberg gave a great performance as a young man who is quiet but has fortitude. He costarred with Charlize Theron again in the fun movie The Italian Job in 2003 whose Japanese title is lame, though. He looks like Matt Damon if you vaguely see him, which is irony. Wahlberg used to be a hoodlum. Contrarily, Damon used to attend Harvard University. Both of them played in The Departed together in 2006. I was not impressed with the film and their acting so much. In January 2019, I watched Mile 22 starring Wahlberg who played well as a ruthless and highly skilled CIA agent. He was also playing well as a ruthless and stoic sniper in Shooter. He acted well a jovial and talkative guy when he paired up with Denzel Washington in 2 Guns in 2013, but all the same he is better at playing a quiet and crack shooter like Swagger.