Shooter is executed with such efficiency and energy by action maestro Antoine Fuqua that ignoring flaws and becoming involved in the proceedings isn't a matter of choice. full review

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. full review

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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. full review

The movie's politics may miss their mark, but its thrills are dead-on. full review

A chase movie and a pretty crafty thriller, Shooter owes a lot to Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor. full review

It features a gritty, macho performance by Mark Wahlberg, stinging political commentary and more 'Here's how you do that' moments than the complete MacGuyver collection on DVD. full review

Shooter eventually gets in its own way by hitting things too hard, too loud and too long. full review

It's best to turn your brain off, half an hour in. full review

Though the movie has some mild pretensions to rank with great paranoia films like Three Days of the Condor, mostly it's content to deliver Salisbury steak-and-mashed-potatoes action. full review

The plot is so dense and cockamamie, trying to follow it isn't worth the bother. full review

A high-caliber action movie that gives '70s revenge fantasies a contemporary spin.

Suspended over a deep gully of disbelief, where logic takes more bullets than the bad guys, Shooter still makes the grade as hard-ass action escapism.