Sniper
Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills…
- Director: * Luis Llosa
- Genre:Action / Drama
- Runtime:95 minutes
Cast
Tom Berenger : Thomas Beckett
Billy Zane : Richard Miller
J.T. Walsh : Chester Van Damme
Aden Young : Doug Papich
Ken Radley : El Cirujano
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The movie starts off with Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Berenger), an experienced sniper, and his spotter Cpl. Papich (Young) assassinating a Panamanian rebel leader in the jungle. Afterward, they take up a position in an isolated part of the jungle and wait out until nighttime for an extraction. However, they are extracted at daylight much to the dismay of Beckett. An experienced rebel sniper, formerly trained by Beckett, kills Papich as the two reach the helicopter, but Beckett is able to retrieve his body and bring it to the helicopter. Infuriated, Beckett blames the helicopter CO for Papich’s death.
Beckett is paired up with the contrastingly inexperienced, and civilian, Richard Miller (Zane). Their goal: to eliminate a rebel general who is being financed by a reclusive Panamanian drug lord. Miller is a SWAT team sharpshooter but lacks combat experience and has no confirmed kills to his name. When he is on the way to the staging area, his helicopter is attacked by a guerrilla with an assault rifle, who kills most of the men in it. Miller takes out his rifle and acquires a bead on the man, but is unable to pull the trigger. Fortunately, the chopper’s dying machine gunner manages to kill the guerrilla before succumbing to his wounds.
When Beckett and Miller set off, friction immediately occurs between them, based in part on Beckett’s insistence on deviating from the mission plan that Miller was given, but mostly on the fact that Miller (though nominally in command) has no experience or aptitude for jungle operations. Early on, they encounter a group of Indians, who agree to lead them past the rebel guerrillas, in return for a favor. They want the team to eliminate El Cirujano (“the Surgeon”), a torture master who’s working with the rebels, listed as a target of opportunity.
Beckett agrees to do so, and informs Miller that he expects Miller to make the kill: the general is setting up a meeting with the drug lord, allowing the sniper team the opportunity to kill both men. However, Beckett is not certain of Miller’s reliability. Miller proves him right by deliberately missing the shot. One of the Indians is killed by rebel return fire, and they refuse to help the team any further. Read more
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