| The Shooter | |
| Director: | Fred Olen Ray (as Ed Raymond) |
| Producer: | Ashok Amritraj Andrew Stevens |
| Narrator: | Andrew Stevens |
| Starring: | Michael Dudikoff Randy Travis Valerie Wildman Eric Lawson Robert Donavan William Smith Andrew Stevens |
| Music: | Deeji Mincey Boris Zelkin |
| Cinematography: | Gary Graver |
| Editing: | Brett Hedlund |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Shooter (also known as Deadly Shooter and Desert Shooter)[1] is a 1997 American Western film directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as Ed Raymond) and starring Michael Dudikoff.[2]
Michael Atherton stands up to the unfriendly and controlling family that runs the small, western town he lives in and ends up unheroically beaten up and left for dead. By luck, he is saved by a prostitute attacked by the same group of desperados.
Despite no Rotten Tomatoes approval rating and a Want-To-See score of 29%, The Shooter received positive reviews from critics and audiences. Karina Montgomery of "rec.arts.movies.reviews" called it "a meat and potatoes kind of film, a good time. You can find plot holes, but to comment on them would be petty in light of the rest of the film's merits working with them." Super Reviewer Brody Manson said "I was NOT expecting to like this western as much as I did but It had that old school western feel and it was action packed from start to finish."