Shooter, you might like it, I did.

I saw this movie last night. It may not be in theaters much longer. It has qualities that a large screen will show better than a small one.
First the trailer -

Slate features this review from a bit more than a month ago. Their reviewer liked this movie, seemingly against her "better judgment." If a Democrat were in the white house, she might not have liked it.

Shooter is a video-game-fantasy version of the 2006 midterm elections, a howl of rage at the hypocrisy of the Bush presidency and the Iraq war (not that either is ever mentioned by name).

The film does begin with events in the Horn of Africa, The USSA's newest "war theater." In any case, the movie's protagonist, well-played by Mark Wahlberg, makes it clear that he does not simply align with the political factions of Mordor on the Potomac. A former Marine sniper, he reads ZNet and the 9/11 Commission Report. He might be characterized as a left-leaning paleocon or constitutionalist progressive, if either makes any sense at all.

I haven't seen a radical libertarian review of this film and I think "the Family" might find much to like in this movie. The most sympathetically aligned look I've seen comes from Prison Planet which had this review not long ago. I read it after following a link from STR.

This movie is packed with positive messages about liberty, gun ownership and detailed examples of how government black-ops are run, how patsies are framed and how cover-stories are generated. Elements of how 9/11 was scripted along with the assassination of JFK are clearly used as parallels to map out the course of the plot.

This film seemed to me a little like Dean Koontz's Dark Rivers of the Heart crossed with John Ross's Unintended Consequences made into a movie. Add a "dash" of The Siege to lighten the story, which isn't as bleak as it really should be (contrary to the "spoiler special" podcast at the Slate review I linked above). I enjoyed it as did everyone in our theater going party. If you read this blog, you might as well.