This film commenced drawing evil even before you begin: the poster shows a man well-gym a rifle that would shoot down an airliner. The gaze is directed pissed horizon. The beginning is not very good and the plot seems to have written from the first minutes: the lieutenant-shooter-decorated-Swagger chosen after a mission "-not-exist" in a state in which "not-be-had" gone to hell, he left the monastic life in the mountains, the government called him back to action when they found the draft of an attack on the President. Now seems clear, the synopsis seems to develop towards the clash against superbuono villain, because the attack seems to be prepared by a sniper as crafty and decided to Swagger.
Instead, the plot twist: Swagger finds himself the scapegoat in a plot to kill a prominent character in conversation with the president on the day of the attack.
The lieutenant is then forced to fight alone against everything and everyone in the movement to exonerate and rehabilitate his name, helped in this by two government agents ( and Michael Peña Rhona Mitra ) which, in true American style, giving first place to the truth and are willing to disobey their superiors to defend it.
Mark Wahlberg plays the part of the soldier with a brush blameless, hard-hearted and ultra-professional, raising the thickness of the characters in the film, actually not too high. Particularly affect negatively stereotyped and predictable too bad and obscene use of computer graphics cheap in some scenes. Credit where credit to the director not to be out of date (excessively) in empty patriotism and sickly sentences (the last of Transformers Michael Bay it is a good example), always keeping an eye moderately critical of the tax authorities and the dark plots hatched by it.
Good plot that is not trivialized by taking roads too discounted, dignified, directed by Antoine Fuqua (superb, but overrated, in Training Day) and Mark Wahlberg for best drama, depth and stage presence.
A film that does not pretend to change the world of film, but succeeds in the difficult task of avoiding a night of yawns in front of the TV, surprising us with some double / triple-play, delighting you with scenes and creating well-designed shooter some waiting for the final missing in many productions the same kind.