01. Mark Wahlberg is ridiculously attractive.
02. I love characters who are able to dress their own wounds with household products found at service stations.
03. “Tennessee: the patron state of shooting stuff.” ZING.
04. An alternate title for this film could be “Oliver Stone’s JFK From The Perspective of Lee Harvey Oswald Colon What if Oswald Had Gotten Away And Jack Ruby Had Never Shot Him?” Because, of course, Mark Wahlberg is just a patsy made out to be the lone gunman in a perceived assassination attempt on the President. All the loose ends keep ending up dead and evidence comes together far too conveniently to actually be real. No magic bullet theory, but it wouldn’t have been out of place in this movie. They did make reference to the Kennedy assassination at one point specifically because of how conspiratorial everything seemed, so I’m glad it wasn’t just me.
05. This movie was really weirdly left-wing subversive (not that this is a bad thing). There was a very strong pervading theme of “You can question your government and still be a patriot, dickhead” to it. It wasn’t subtle, but in a movie like this you don’t really expect it to be and I was actually pleasantly surprised it was there at all.
06. Danny Glover was the bad guy. Why is this a bad thing? Because anyone who watches The Office will have the voice of Michael Scott in their heads saying “You show me a white man you trust and I will show you a black man I that trust even more.” I CAN NO LONGER TRUST DANNY GLOVER MORE THAN PAM’S DAD. 
07. WTF LEVON HELM?! Point the first: I had no idea he was an actor, but his IMDB page reveals other roles over the past couple of decades. Interesting. Point the second: the man looks terrible for his age. He’s 66 and looks about 106. It could be make-up, sure, but there’s really not much point in making his gun-enthusiast borderline psychotic isolated mountain man character older than he actually is in real life. Very strange stuff.
08. One of my favourite battle techniques is to create some sort of perimeter at a given distance and when Thine Enemies™ cross this literal line, something ignites and they’re engulfed in flames. It’s a tactic for the ages, just as effective in Braveheart as it is in Shooter. Substitute oil and flaming arrows for napalm and remote detonators and you’re good to go. Sometimes you gotta go back to the classics once in a while, even if your technology has advanced significantly in the last seven hundred years.
09. Bob Lee Swagger is every bit as lethal as Jason Bourne, without unfortunately suffering from amnesia. I love it when government trained operatives are put in a position where they have to turn on those who did the training. ALLOW ME TO USE YOUR OWN TACTICS AGAINST YOU, SIR!
10. Speaking of Bob Lee Swagger, it’s a ridiculous name for a character however it seems to fit because they had all these ridiculous shots of Mark Wahlberg swaggering away from the omnipresent destruction in the background, all in slightly slow-motion, of course. So macho but incredibly amusing.