Nine years after the 1993 feature film (shot in Australia) that paired Mater Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) with hotshot Richard Miller (Billy Zane), Beckett - and the franchise, revived as a direct to video offering - is back in action, taking a mission handed to him by military intelligence that has him going to Eastern Europe to assassinate a brutal terrorist leader who is persecuting the locals. He is teamed with a mysterious spotter named Cole (Bokeem Woodbine, who I last saw in The Rock) for what is an off-the-books mission. It's after they accomplish what Beckett believed to be the mission that things get complicated.
Whilst not as good a film as the original, Sniper 2 also isn't to bad. The grim, war-torn Eastern European setting helped make things gritty, and Berenger is pretty good as the jaded, grizzled Thomas Beckett. Throw in a few decent action scenes and you've got a fun movie, if you like the military/war genre. Certainly, there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes.
Whilst not as good a film as the original, Sniper 2 also isn't to bad. The grim, war-torn Eastern European setting helped make things gritty, and Berenger is pretty good as the jaded, grizzled Thomas Beckett. Throw in a few decent action scenes and you've got a fun movie, if you like the military/war genre. Certainly, there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes.