Shooter (2007) - this action thriller, competently directed by Antoine Fuqua, features
various helicopters. During the opening scenes in Ethiopia, there's a Eurocopter (MBB PAH-1)
BO-105 gunship, which kills the sniper's military partner, before our hero (Mark Wahlberg)
shoots it down, but a CGI view of the smoke trail blacks out the screen and so we don't actually
see the helicopter crash into a hillside.
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Later, some FBI and police choppers (including a Eurocopter AS-350 and a Bell 206 JetRanger) pursue
the fugitive hero as he escapes into streets of Philadelphia, with up to four helicopters on-screen
at once in some aerial shots, while another AS-350 A-Star is used by the villains for their ambush
of the Virginia ranch, but this low-flying helicopter is damaged in a napalm explosion and crashes
behind some trees.
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For the snowbound mountaintop rendezvous and hostage trade, the bad guys arrive in a blue Eurocopter
EC-120B Colibri, and a red AS-350, before FBI squads fly in using a Bell 412 Twin Huey and yet another
federal A-Star.
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