Shooter (2007)

“I don’t think you understand,” growls Marine sniper Mark Wahlberg to rookie Fed Michael Pena, when asked why he’s risking life and liberty to avenge himself on the sinister government forces who have framed him as a would-be presidential assassin. “These guys killed my dog!” Hell hath no fury like a pet owner bereaved, though master marksman Bob Lee Swagger really should have smelt a rat the second Colonel Danny Glover came calling at his isolated Wyoming cabin. After all, if you’re an expert sharp-shooter asked to come out of retirement to foil an imminent attempt on the Commander-In-Chief’s life, you’d have to be a real lemon not to realise you’re being set up to take the fall.

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