4. Shooter
Shooter was a film loosely based on the novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. The only true similarity between book and film was the Second Amendment loving ex- Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger. Those are probably also the only politics that kept over from book to film. In Shooter Bob Lee Swagger is brought out of retirement to help stop an assassination on the president's life. Only soon enough he is framed and has to go on the run to clear his name and avenge his dog (also kept from the book). Shooter is an interesting one because it has two clear political commentaries running and they can oppose one another at times. Bob Lee Swagger is, by nature, a man loving of country, spiteful of the government and a lover of his right to bear arms. In fact, he wouldn't accomplish anything he accomplishes in the story without the right to bear arms. These are all things inherent in the character and clear from his presentation in the book. However, the film takes a bit of a different root when the villains are presented. The main bad guy ends up being a corrupt Senator with his own private security company running around the globe committing mass atrocities all so he can profit from the one thing the Left loves to bring up time and time again: oil. Watch the film and you'll see how the villain portrayed by Ned Beatty is obviously based off of Dick Cheney. Then in a final showdown, our evil Senator goes on and on about the "haves" and "have nots." Its basically a liberal's dream of the ultimate conservative bad guy. He's a fantasy that is apart of a clear political commentary to push Big Oil, private security companies like Blackwater and Dick Cheney as the devils of the world. However, one must also acknowledge the clear right wing political commentaries of the film inspired by the main character. Throw it all into one big melting pot and we'll ultimately have to chalk this one up as a film with a mainly Libertarian political commentary on the state of the world.