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'''''Shooter''''' is a 2007 film directed by [[Training Day|Antoine Fuqua]], featuring [[Mark Wahlberg]] as Bob Lee Swagger, an ex-marine sniper who was disillusioned with the government after he was left behind enemy lines during a mission, only escaping on his own terms. It is based on the 1993 novel ''Point Ofof Impact'' by Stephen Hunter, although it does deviate from the source material in several parts.

Meanwhile, the widow of Bob's sniper partner is also dragged into the events, and Bob has to save her, though she is not a traditional [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]] [[Sawed-Off Shotgun|either]].

Shooter enjoyed moderate box office success and some critical acclaim. In its genre, it is a conspiracy thriller, and rides on the paranoia of the [[George W. Bush|Bush years]]. It also owes a lot to ''[[The Bourne Series (Filmfilm)|The Bourne Series]]'' (including the general resemblance between Wahlberg and [[Matt Damon]]), although the sniper angle and being rated R works in seperating itself from other [[Follow the Leader]] types.

* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]]: Swagger makes a long-range sniper shot to blow a gun in half Payne is using to threaten his hostage; it looks like shrapnel was propelled into his hand, possibly taking off part of his finger. Subverted seconds later when, while the Payne expresses admiration at the first shot, Swagger fires again and blows off his arm just below the elbow.

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Bob, but Sandor is downright sadistic, and is wheelchair-bound, as when his location was discovered during a battle, his opponents took no chances and targeted him with the artillery. <ref>Tanks have been used in the counter-sniper role in Iraq, and artillery shelling has been done to snipers since at least [[World War OneI]]. They don't like it and it reduces life expectancy.</ref>

** Parts of it. The scene at the end shows some of it is still working since Bob Lee shouldn't have been able to leave that quickly.

* [[Gunman Withwith Three Names]]: Bob Lee Swagger. Lee may be a reference to Lee Harvey Oswald. Swagger to military joke; bullet trajectory calculations are sometimes called "SWAG" -- Sophisticated Wild-Ass Guess

** Swagger is the name of a man the author knew. He borrowed the man's name for both Swaggers.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Lethal Weapon (Film)|Murtagh]] and [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Filmfilm)|Casey Jones]] are your resident baddies for the film.

** [[Twenty Four24|Shari Rothenberg]] is the love interest

** [[Stargate Universe (TV)|Col. Young is a senior FBI agent.]]

{{quote| '''Nick Memphis:''' I didn't know you had a woman.<br />

{{quote| '''Agent Memphis:''' You could hire a good lawyer and I'll call the Bureau. They can work out some kind of deal. This is explainable. You can prove that you didn't shoot the Archbishop.<br />

{{quote| {{spoiler|"For the record, I don't like how this turned out any more then you do. But this is the world we live in. And justice does not always prevail. It's not the wild west where you can clean up the streets with a gun. Even though sometimes it's exactly what is needed... Bob Lee Swagger, ''you're free to go.''"}}}}

{{quote| "I win. You lose. Again."}}

{{quote| '''Nick Memphis:''' We work for the federal government. We're not that good at our jobs.}}

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Nick goes from befuddled FBI rook to a useful ally for Swagger. This was better-explained in the book, where Nick was an ex-sniper.

{{quote| '''Mr. Rate:''' That's how a conspiracy works. Them boys on the Grassy Knoll they were dead within three hours, buried in the damned desert, unmarked graves out past Terlingua.<br />

'''Nick Memphis:''' You know this for a fact?<br />

* [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob]]: Dr. Dobbler would like you to know that Bob Lee Swagger's first name is Bob. Not Robert, ''Bob''. In fact, the only sources to get this wrong are a few voices in the media circus, but that's the least of what they do.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Howard D. Utey - "[[Embarrassing Nickname|Howdy Duty]]" to anyone he's crossed - but call him that and you'd better be prepared for a ''lot'' of [[Bothering Byby the Book]].

{{quote| ''"He was careful to have men under him who were not quite as bright as he, and he particularly understood the dangers of talent, which was that while it was capable of producing spectacular results, it was just as apt to go off by itself to nurse obscure grudges or lick psychic wounds after gross expenditures of energy. Talent wasn't consistent or loyal or pliant enough to be trusted; Howard deeply hated talent, and made certain that none of the men who worked for him ever had any talent. He'd driven seven talented men out of the Bureau and only one had stood against him, the idiot Nick Memphis, once so bright and brimming with enthusiasm, carefully betrayed at each step of the way, and yet stubborn in his refusal to leave the Bureau."''}}

*** {{spoiler|1=It's implied that he's a willing member of RamDyne's conspiracy - especially his [[Villainous BSOD]] upon seeing Swagger walk.}}

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