Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

adonis98-743-186503 A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador. Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, The Expendables) and Josh Ashton (Beverly Hills Cop, Bevery Hills Cop II) star in this disappointing and forgettable 90's film that even the best actors and directors in the world could not possibly have saved. Sure the leads are pretty good but the story as a whole is half cooked and the movie drags alot in certain moments. Definitely not one of Dolph Lundgren's best 90's films or best films in general... (5.0/10)

Leofwine_draca After becoming increasingly disenchanted with action blockbusters as of late, I've found myself drawn more and more to low budget action flicks. You know, the ones that star the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, even Mark Dacascos. These types of films offer up a more realistic, raw kind of action than the smooth and polished megabucks pictures. One other, often forgotten star of these straight-to-video bonanzas is Dolph Lundgren, who has been churning out his movies throughout the '90s to little recognition in and out of the genre. So when I saw that this film was in the late-night schedule of a trashy television station (Channel 5 to you UK readers), I couldn't resist.It starts off badly, it has to be said. An hour passes with little of interest to hold the viewer's attention, instead it's the same old scene-setting. Although the Prague setting does make way for some nice views of picturesque statues, monuments, buildings etc. At around the hour mark, the film suddenly changes into high gear, and is then packed with shoot-outs, car chases, and action up until the very end. The action scenes may be clichéd (the old train-top chase is brought into play, for example) but they are frequently exciting, with lots of machine guns blazing and Lundgren escaping from death time and time again.Which brings me to the acting; lamentable, as to be expected. Lundgren is extremely wooden here, although athletic when he needs to be. Detmers makes for quite an alluring femme fatale, and her final fate is quite a tragic one. The only other actor of interest is O'Herlihy, who essays the role of Lundgren's older, balding partner, and is quite likable in the part. There are many individual scenes of interest in this film; a moment where Lundgren cuts his own arm with a stanley knife (bet you can't guess how they did that!), a rooftop fight between Lundgren and a sniper, a shoot-out at a desert airport, and the finale, which involves a machine-gun battle between Lundgren and two of the main bad guys. Oh, and there's a scene of a man exploding and a John Woo-style slow-motion shooting in there somewhere too. THE SHOOTER may be clichéd entertainment, but it delivers on the action front, and is quite enjoyable in a so-bad-it's-trashy way.

JoeytheBrit Dolph Lundgren in a murkily-lit modestly-budgeted Co-European production, I have to say, is not a prospect to get the average moviegoer's pulse racing; Dolph is the poor man's Arnie – not, as it turns out, because of acting ability or screen presence, but simply because Arnie came first. Nevertheless, that's the way it is for poor old Dolph, so throughout the 90s all he seemed to get were the scraps that fell from Arnie's table. This one isn't as bad as you might expect. It isn't good either, but it's serviceable.It certainly improves on a weak first ten minutes that are hampered by some lousy lighting and even lousier acting from the likes of Gavan O'Herlihy who chews scenery like a man with indigestion who doesn't wish to appear impolite. Dolph is Michael Dane, a US Marshal on the hunt for Simone Rosset (Maruschka Detmers) a shapely assassin suspected of doing a Frank Sinatra and coming out of retirement to off a Cuban ambassador. Rosset, however, pleads her innocence, and Dane uncovers doings of the murky variety when he investigates a little further.Detmers is an actress new to me, but she adds a touch of class to an otherwise pedestrian action movie. Her character is obviously modelled on Nikita, but Simone is a part-time lesbian with a taste for good wine and a knack for jumping off high places. Detmers gives the impression she is slumming – that's how classy she is. Lundgren gives a decent enough performance too, but the story lets them both down in crucial areas. Dane is just a little too dim, even for a Marshal. He uses a tactic of self-mutilation instead of surveillance, stages a car chase which nearly ends up with him and his passenger being squashed between two tram cars simply because he wants to drive rather than be driven, and shoots indiscriminately into a moving train. On the plus side, the story does at least try to be a little different from the countless other mid-budget efforts out there, adding an unexpected twist that is well-timed and effective, and making use of some terrific Prague location work.This one is for those times when you really don't want to think about what you are watching; it's for when you want the film to do all the work and lay everything out for you without inserting any sly subtexts, etc. The action set-pieces are a little workmanlike – the budgets restricts them to a couple of car chases and a lot of gunfights – but one, carried out on the rooftops of Prague, is pretty cool.No-one sitting down to watch a film like this should be doing so with high expectations, so it follows then that no-one should be disappointed

ChoiBaby Incredibly forgetful and incomprehensible hodgepodge about a U.S. marshal, Michael Dane (Dolph Lundgren) out to investigate the recent assassination of a Cuban ambassador to the U.S. in New York City. His adventures lead him to the city of Prague in the Czech Republic where he must apprehend an apparent "suspect" (Maruschka Detmers), who may or may not be the one responsible for the killing. He must then return her to New York City in the United States of America so that she may await trial for the murder.As time goes by, Dane and the alleged "professional assassin" are on the lam. They run from the police, various bad guys, and lots of shootings occur.The gorgeous on-location filming at some of the finest monuments found at the Czech Republic are a mild virtue and THE SHOOTER (also known as HIDDEN ASSASSIN) has occasional suspense.Unfortunately, those are not good enough redeeming factors to give this film high marks. THE SHOOTER tries to intrigue people with political commentary about the relationships between the U.S. and the Czech Republic, but yet again, it fails miserably. The action in THE SHOOTER is abysmal, the guns blazing add nothing new to the genre, and these type of thrillers are becoming tiresome as they perish on the video shelves. THE SHOOTER is another bravura waste of time.RATING: *1/2 out of ****.