Shooter (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Shooter |
| Original title | Shooter |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 18 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Antoine Fuqua |
| script | Jonathan Lemkin |
| production |
Lorenzo di Bonaventura , Ric Kidney |
| music | Mark Mancina |
| camera | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| cut |
Conrad Buff IV , Eric Sears |
| occupation | |
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Shooter is an American action - thriller from director Antoine Fuqua from the year 2007 . The film opened in cinemas in the United States on March 23, 2007 and in Germany on April 19, 2007. It was first broadcast on German-language free TV on November 15, 2009 on ProSieben .
The film is about a former US Marines sniper who falls victim to a conspiracy for the attempted murder of the President of the United States .
action
Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger is on a combat mission in Ethiopia . As a sniper he is positioned with his friend, the scout Donnie Fenn, on a hill in Eritrea , observes a road about 900 meters away and is supposed to keep it free from an operation for the withdrawal of his own troops. Fenn doubts the purpose of the mission and confronts Swagger with the question: “Are you sure that this is a peace mission?” When a Unimog passed the street a few moments later , Fenn cleared the machine gunner's fire . Swagger manages a headshot at the moving target with his sniper rifle . He also hits the Unimog's driver with another shot. Unexpectedly, more enemy troops appear, pursuing the retreating Allied forces. When Swagger tries to stop them by deliberately eliminating the drivers, they bombard the area where Swagger is hiding with mortar shells . The civilian-clad contact man at the military base orders that radio contact with them be broken off and leaves the two soldiers in enemy territory. When an enemy attack helicopter flies over the two soldiers, Donnie gives up cover to attack with his assault rifle and dies in the hail of bullets from the helicopter. Eventually Swagger manages to take out the helicopter with a targeted shot at the rotor head.
Back home, Swagger leaves the Marine Corps and retreats to the mountains, where he lives with his dog. Three years after his mission in Ethiopia, he received a visit from Colonel Johnson, a government official, who revealed to him that the President of the United States was in real danger of being murdered by a sniper during the election campaign. Johnson turns to Swagger for help by appealing to Swagger's patriotism and experience. Swagger responds to this after initial hesitation. He's scouting out every possible attack site to prevent an attack. Eventually, at a public event in Philadelphia , just as Swagger predicted, a shot was fired. However, it is not the president who is killed by the bullet, but an Ethiopian archbishop . Now Colonel Johnson shows his true colors: Swagger is said to be shot as an alleged assassin on the spot; it is said to have been caught in the act by and killed by patrolman Timmons. But Swagger manages to escape despite two gunshot wounds. He overpowers FBI agent Nick Memphis and steals his vehicle, but tells him that it was not he who shot the President and that Officer Timmons is part of a conspiracy .
After he has tried during his flight to stop its circulation and blood loss by an improvised makeshift saline - infusion compensate, he goes to Sarah, the widow of his fallen comrades in Eritrea Donnie. This takes care of his wounds. With Sarah's help, he then contacts Nick Memphis, who has since noticed numerous inconsistencies in the official presentation, and gives him some data, including a photo showing the vehicle identification number of the car of the government official who recruited him. Nick Memphis, who is about to undergo a civil service investigation for allowing himself to be overwhelmed by Swagger, turns up after researching evidence, times, and the like. a. to the FBI colleague Alourdes Galindo, who is likeable to him and who, like Nick, is skeptical about the suddenly emerging evidence and the unusual cooperation between the various US government and intelligence agencies. Ultimately, she feels that Memphis is being turned into a pawn and, out of mutual sympathy, she helps him out, albeit in secret. Shortly after Memphis researches the chassis number, he is kidnapped and reportedly shot, and his death is said to look like a suicide. Swagger manages to shoot the kidnappers and free Nick Memphis, who then allies with Swagger. This gives Memphis quick training to become a sniper and target scout.
Swagger is now looking for the sniper, Mikhaylo Sczerbiak, who fired the shot at the President, and locates him. The group behind the attack has positioned a four-man guard and other soldiers around his house to kill Swagger. A conversation ensues between Swagger and the assassin, in which Swagger announces that, like Swagger himself, he was recruited by the group. He also gives him to understand that there is no point in killing someone from the group, as this group has no "head". Swagger also learns of a massacre in Ethiopia that was carried out on the orders of a senator . He learns that he and Donnie Fenn unknowingly secured the withdrawal of the commando that had murdered the population of an entire village. Because the Ethiopian archbishop wanted to reveal the circumstances of the massacre to the public, he was shot. So the assassination was actually aimed at the archbishop and not at all against the US president. Swagger records all of this with his voice recorder as evidence against the Johnson group. Before the soldiers approach, the assassin commits suicide. Swagger and Memphis manage to take out all soldiers in one battle with the help of a few improvised incendiary, smoke and pipe bombs that were previously placed, as well as their firearms. They then moved after Bozeman ( Montana back), from where they both the FBI and Colonel Johnson Contact phone.
As a last resort, Colonel Johnson has Swagger's girlfriend Sarah kidnapped. Swagger arranges a handover on a snow-covered mountain, with the demand that the senator who once ordered the massacre must be present. From a distance he succeeds in shooting all the hidden shooters. With an aimed shot, he also destroys the kidnapper's weapon with which the kidnapper threatens his girlfriend. He then disarms the Senator and the pilots, whereupon Sarah kills her wounded kidnapper in vigilante justice.
The senator speaks bluntly with Swagger about the massacre in Ethiopia that he ordered at the time. Swagger realizes that he and his girlfriend will be on the hit list as long as the conversation is recorded. When two FBI helicopters arrive, he destroys his dictation machine and with it the recorded conversation with the assassin in order to save his life and that of Sarah.
He is arrested, but is released because he can prove his innocence: According to an FBI witness testimony, his CheyTac M200 intervention sniper rifle, from which he is said to have fired the fatal shot, which has not been changed since then and which is said to have fired the fatal shot, was at the time of the assassination by Swagger for safety and external “enemies made unsuitable for firing by a shortened firing pin . With regard to the crimes of Johnson and the Senator from Montana in Ethiopia, the attorney general sees no possibility of action, since these crimes were committed outside the USA and are therefore not justifiable to him.
Swagger then drives to a house where the group met to celebrate the outcome as a victory. He kills everyone present one after the other, including the Senator from Montana and Johnson. Then he damages a gas pipe, causing the house to explode. He escapes a few meters through an adjacent forest and meets Sarah there, who is waiting with an escape car.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film lived on numerous conspiracy theories with which the viewer was surrounded. He is "fast-paced", "full of energy" and does not follow the trail that is emerging at the beginning. The thriller makes no overt political statement. Berardinelli praised the fact that Mark Wahlberg, who looks like a mixture of Jack Bauer and MacGyver , depicts the character played not as a super human, but as a human.
Cinema praised: “While action cinema has been dominated by the bombast productions of Jerry Bruckheimer (' The Island ') in recent years , films of the classic style are now conquering the audience: see ' The Bourne Conspiracy ' and ' Casino Royale '. Instead of digital effects, handmade stunts and captivating stories inspire here. 'Shooter' continues this trend and convinces up to the last minute. A must for all genre fans. "
The lexicon of international film judges: "Effective, but over-pointed film, whose lonely hero faces the conspiracy of the powerful without really questioning their neo-conservative driving forces."
Stephen Cole wrote in Globe and Mail that the film was - "like many modern action films" - more interested in violence than in the motives of the characters.
In some reviews, the glorification of vigilante justice is thematized, which is particularly evident from the end of the film.
background
The book Im Fadenkreuz der Angst (Point of Impact), written by Stephen Hunter , served as a template for the film . The characters and the plot are all taken from this book, the latter has been shortened and more complex entanglements and conspiracies have been left out. Sarah is called Julie in the book and the assassin is not a Russian, but a man named Lon Scott, and the dog in the book is also called Mike and not Sam. The time span has also been changed, because Bob Lee Swagger is older in the book and the death of his friend Donnie Fenn was far more than three years ago.
There are also a number of allusions to real characters. The name of the protagonist, Bob "Lee" Swagger, is reminiscent of Lee Harvey Oswald , and Ruby is also used for the role of the assassin-murderer. In the case of the assassination attempt on the president / archbishop, the fake hiding place of the alleged perpetrator (upper floor of a brick commercial building with vertically opening lattice windows) corresponds exactly to the location of Lee Harvey Oswald during the Kennedy assassination. The name of the patrolman Timmons , who is supposed to catch and shoot Swagger immediately after the assassination, is an allusion to the patrolman Tippit who was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald shortly after the Kennedy assassination .
In the film, Swagger shoots with the CheyTac Intervention , Barrett M82 and Remington 700 sniper rifles , as well as an M4A1 with reflex sight from Colt . The mercenaries who are supposed to kill Swagger at the home of the assassin use G36 assault rifles , among other things .
synchronization
| actor | speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Wahlberg | Oliver Mink | Bob Lee Swagger |
| Lane Garrison | Michael Iwannek | Donnie Fenn |
| Michael Peña | Tobias Müller | Nick Memphis |
| Danny Glover | Jürgen Kluckert | Col. Isaac Fitzsimmons Johnson |
| Kate Mara | Luise Helm | Sarah |
| Elias Koteas | Erich Rauker | Jack Payne |
| Rhona Mitra | Vera Teltz | Alourdes Galindo |
| Rade Šerbedžija | Jan Spitzer | Michael Sandor |
| Ned Beatty | Klaus Sunshine | Senator Charles F. Meachum |
| Jonathan Walker | Uwe Büschken | Louis Dobbler |
| Louis Ferreira | Torsten Michaelis | Howard Purnell |
| Tate Donovan | Bernd Vollbrecht | Russ Turner |
| Adrian G. Griffiths | Tilo Schmitz | Ben Davis |
| Brian Markinson | Joachim Tennstedt | Justice Minister Russert |
| Levon helmet | Hasso Zorn | Mr. rate |
| Alan C. Peterson | Axel Lutter | Officer Timmons |
| Dean McKenzie | Salomon Woubayehu Ayele | Archbishop Desmond Mutumbo |
series
The eponymous series Shooter has been broadcast on USA Network since November 15, 2016 . This is also based on Stephen Hunter's novel In the Crosshair of Fear , but is not directly related to the movie.
Web links
- Official website of the film
- Shooter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shooter at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Shooter at Metacritic (English)
- Shooter in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for shooters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 512 DVD).
- ↑ Age rating for shooters . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli , 2007
- ^ Cinema : film review
- ↑ Shooter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ rottentomatoes.com
- ^ Cheers to vigilante justice ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Leif Kramp, April 13, 2007
- ↑ synchronkartei.de: Synchronization