Mark Wahlberg is pointing a gun at a powerful yet corrupt politi-co who bears an uncanny resemblance to Dick Cheney. Wahlberg cocks the weapon. The Cheney-like politician looks shocked. “You can’t kill me!” he says, outraged. “I am a United States senator!” Wahlberg sneers, “Exactly!” And then, bang! Bye-bye, Dick Cheney.
It’s just one of many moments in Wahlberg’s new movie Shooter that’s designed to make you simultaneously thump the air and raise an eyebrow. For the movie, about an innocent army sniper on the run, is a Rambo -esque paean to ballistic mayhem that’s nonetheless filled with enough Bush-bashing subtext to make it positively seditious in tone. References to Abu Ghraib, WMDs and government oil lust abound. read more
Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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