Sniper 2 (2002)

I love this movie so much

So much average

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Thomas Beckett (Berenger) is called back into action because not only was he "The Best", but he's still "The Best" all these years later. He thought he left his sniping days behind, now that he's taking yahoos on hunting trips. But the government offers him anything he wants to go to Serbia and assassinate Valstoria, an official who has been behind some sort of ethnic cleansing. Sensing a trick, because if the government is offering him anything, they think he won't return alive, Beckett simply asks for a restoration of his rank. So they team up Master Gunnery Sergeant Beckett with a prisoner, Cole (Woodbine), who has a chance to earn his freedom if he backs up Beckett on this mission. But as we know, Beckett has a history of losing partners. Can they execute their mission...and their target? It's easy to think this installment in the Sniper series was made sometime in the 90's, right after the first movie. It seems very 90's. But surprisingly, it was released in 2002. Seeing as the first Sniper was released in 1993, why the filmmakers thought that fans were clamoring for a new Sniper vehicle nine years after the fact remains a mystery. And thus, Sniper 2 does have a "this never needed to be made" kind of feeling throughout. They probably thought it would be worthwhile to have Beckett talk about such things as al-Qaida and Guantanamo Bay, and say things like "Freedom isn't free", thus dating the proceedings to the Bush administration. By comparison, the first Sniper movie has more of a timeless feel, not dating to any one era.It seems like a Nu-Image movie, and it was shot in Hungary instead of Bulgaria. Not helping matters is the awful CGI, which was worse - if such a thing is possible - in 2002 than it is today. So points have to be detracted for that. Come on, that's a betrayal of everything Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett stands for! He shouldn't have to tolerate CGI stupidity. It should be only the real deal for him. He has enough problems as it is (there's some good continuity from the first movie regarding his injuries from torture he suffered). Woodbine, as the backup this time around, makes a worthy foil for Beckett, and he has a very distinctive voice. He should really do voice-overs and cartoons and such. His voice carries his performance here.Director Baxley, who we're normally a fan of, because of Action Jackson (1988), I Come In Peace (1990) and Stone Cold (1991), seems to be taking kind of a paycheck assignment here. He's a competent director, and that shows, but he should have brought the same verve he brought to the aforementioned three movies to this one. He should have made Beckett be able to stand alongside Jackson , Jack Caine, and John Stone as some of his more memorable men of action. Berenger does do his normal high-quality job, but something seems to be missing.As it stands, Sniper 2 is okay. For a movie that doesn't need to exist, it's decent. It's not offensively bad, it's just a bit dull and unnecessary. It's good that it isn't jokey, and we appreciate that, but there's no need to run out and see this.For more action insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

In this directors world, Serbs speak Hungarian, Budapest is capital of Serbia and Muslims have been living in eastern Europe for 600 years.Nazis and Communists are killing Muslims in the Eastern Europe LMFAO! Acting does not exist.Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from outer space" has nothing on this movie. This is stupidity at it's best made by and for the Average Joe; so he has something "easy-on-the-brain" to watch when he comes home from working at the burger shack.I am putting this as the second worst movie i have ever seen, first one being the "Dracula 3000".

The whole crew should look for a different job. It can't be worse than this. The whole movie doesn't make any sense. It's just a random pick of different "anti-American" nations who need uncle Sam to come and spank each till they reason themselves. The “bad” guys are the Serbs but no one in the movie speaks any Serbian. The resistance is supposed to be Muslims who fight the Serbs but their names are very much Christian. Also it always seems that Russian tanks make more noise than damage…how is it possible to miss 5 people from 20 yards shooting from a tank? I can go forever like this but the movie is not worth it. Don't waste your time with it.

Since his medical discharge, ex-Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett has drifted around but has continued to impress in national competitions . So much so in fact, that the military come to him with an offer – anything he wants in return for an "off the books" mission deep inside the Balkans to assassinate a Serbian general believed to be committed atrocities against the Muslim population. Beckett picks military deathrow prisoner Cole as his spotter but is his sense of mistrust well placed in regards this mission?Sniper was solid and Sniper 3 was OK if unremarkable so I went into part 2 in the series being pretty sure that it was going to be more of the same, which more or less it was. The plot is basic though and nowhere near as interesting as it thinks it is. Asides to McKenna explain the plot to the audience while the main characters alternate between occasional action scenes and lots of talking. The plot vaguely plays with the rights and wrongs of being a soldier and the atrocities of the Balkans but mostly it is very thin wallpaper that is of no lasting (or even temporary) value. The action (and build-up) isn't really that interesting and is far from exciting – it isn't the lack of effects or budget, but just a lack of intensity or passion in the delivery.The cast match this rather lacklustre approach by doing the tick-box basics. Berenger mumbles and grunts his way across the film – his words suggest an interesting sort of character but in reality his performance offers little. Woodbine matches this by speaking as gruff as he can but that's about it. Outside of them nobody really makes an impression apart from the odd support member who you may recognise from other television shows or movies.Overall a fairly obvious TV movie that has potential but prefers to mostly just churn the story and characters out with the minimum of effort.