Samuel L Jackson plays a federal officer (Derrick Vann) who is trying to track down the stolen weapons cache that had been removed from their station. He set’s up a meeting with the thieves which is where Eugene Levy (Andy Fiddler) gets mixed up in the whole affair, naturally Derrick take him along for the ride. If you have seen the American Pie series then you know the kind of comedy to expect, he is just like his character “Jim’s Dad” from the series. In all this film makes for a great watch, it’s a serious plot with two great actors, but has hilarious moments of comedy thanks to Levy. I’d seriously recommend you rent or buy it and give it a watch – Well worth it!

Shooteris a gripping film that is full of action. It’s one of those movies that unravels and things start to slowly drop into place. Acting by Wahlberg is very good, one of the first movies I have seen him in, the other being the 2003 Italian Job. 

Shooteris based on the 1993 novel Point of Impact, by Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter, who used Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) in two of his other books, Shooter benefits greatly from having Training Day director Antoine Fuqua who at least has some experience with similar movies.

Michael Pena (Crash, World Trade Centre) who plays Nick Memphis the newbie FBI agent who learns to side with Swagger and become his spotter. Kate Mara (We Are Marshall, 24, Brokeback Mountain) acts as amazing eye candy and as the girlfriend of his dead marines partner who Swagger turns to for help. Still, it’s the villains played by Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas and Rade Sherbedzija who get the most out of the movie by diving off the deep end along with the script, by Jonathan Lemkin (Lethal Weapon 4).  

In all I think Shooter is a worthy watch if you like action films, something you won’t be blown away by but will enjoy watching.

So what is the film about if Rocky has retired? Well old Rocky comes out of retirement to box the latest world champion one more time. The film spends a long time setting the scene, going through the usual emotional things given the fact Rocky’s wife is now dead. Eventually we get to the usual Rocky fight preparation followed by the big fight. So what is my verdict on this movie?

Stallone is very good in the movie and really plays the emotional scenes well, he interacts well with the other actors. On the flip side, this didn’t have the usual fire a Rocky film has. The training scenes didn’t really get you fired up and the fight scenes didn’t leave you screaming ‘Go Rocky’ at the screen like the previous movies did. In all its a worthy watch but I think the previous movies really set the tone and this Rocky movie has a big history to follow which I don’t really think it did.