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| Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA) | Release Date: January 29, 1993 |
Starring:
Aden Young, Billy Zane, Frederick Miragliotta, Gary Swanson, Hank Garrett, J.T. Walsh, Ken Radley, Reynaldo Arenas, Tom Berenger, Vanessa Steele
Summary:
A US Marine sniper is partnered with a SWAT member to take out rebel leaders in the jungles of Panama.
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Sniper expresses a cool competence that is a pleasure to watch. It isn't a particularly original film, but what it does, it does well. We've seen so many bad movies about guys walking through the jungle with rifles that it's interesting the way this one grabs us through its command of the locations and its storytelling skill.
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Aside from a neat, if somewhat overused, optical effect that follows speeding bullets all along their whizzing aerial tracks, there is nothing here that hasn't been done before, but it's all executed with competence, starting with the performances by Tom Berenger and Billy Zane. [25 Jan 1993]
It's mostly just buddies-bonding-over-bullets stuff. [29 Jan 1993, p.24]
Sniper is the Tom Berenger film that'll be forgotten by this time next week. [30 Jan 1993, p.C3]
Action fans probably won't be offended, provided they're not expecting Berenger to be America's answer to James Bond. There are occasions when Sniper shows flashes of promise, although most of these are short-lived. The film is capable of providing a one-hundred minute diversion for anyone who has nothing better to do. The potential is here for something much better, but, unfortunately, Sniper shoots itself in the foot.
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Only mildly exciting as it grinds toward its conclusion, Sniper falls apart in the last reel as writers Michael Frost Beckner and Crash Leyland dispense with credibility by turning the rebel and drug lord's forces into the Keystone Kartel, invoking a Magic Bullet and attempting an Oliver Stone denouement. Unfortunately, director Luis Llosa is no Oliver Stone.
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What on Earth is Tom Berenger doing in a picture as awful as "Sniper"? [2 Feb 1993, p.D7]
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