[3] 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."