Sniper 2 (2002)

Weary veteran sniper Tomas Beckett (Tom Berenger in fine rugged form) comes out of retirement in order to take out a deadly rogue general in Serbia. Beckett is assisted by laid-back deathrow-bound convict Cole (a solid and likeable performance by Bokeem Woodbine), who will be granted his freedom if he succeeds in helping Beckett out.Director Craig R. Baxley keeps the absorbing story hurtling along at a brisk pace, builds a good deal of tension, and stages the thrilling action set pieces with skill and flair. Berenger and Woodbine play off each other well, with Berenger's tightlipped intensity nicely contrasting with Woodbine's ingratiating breeziness. Moreover, there are sound supporting contributions from the fetching Erika Marozsan as perky and helpful contact Sophia, Tomas Puskas as political radical Pavel, Dan Butler as the shady Eckles, and Linden Ashby as no-nonsense colonel McKenna. The compact script by Ron Mita and Jim McClain draws the main characters with depth and offers a few neat twists. Both David Connell's slick cinematography and Gary Chang's moody score are up to par. A fun little Grade-B action thriller.

After sustaining an injury that diminishes his value in the eyes of the United States Marine Corps, "MSgt Thomas Beckett" (Tom Berenger) is basically forced to retire and subsequently attempts to pursue employment elsewhere. Although he drifts from one job to another, he is surprised one day when a senior official from the CIA and a colonel from the Marine Corps approach him about taking an assignment in Bosnia to kill a prominent Serbian leader. Upon accepting the assignment he is given a spotter named "Cole" (Bokeem Woodbine) who has been released from a prison cell in Fort Leavenworth for the murder of an army officer. Although the assignment is extremely difficult, MSgt Beckett is satisfied with Cole enough to proceed with the mission but upon arriving in country finds that there are certain details that were deliberately omitted--and things take an immediate turn for the worse afterward. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that, even though the terrain was quite different than the first movie, there was still enough action and suspense to carry the film for the most part. That said, those who enjoy a movie of this type might want to give this one a look and with that in mind I have rated it accordingly. Average.

I watched first part of "Sniper" movie and it was decent. But this part 2 is just retarded! I needed like 45 mins into movie to figure out who is the "bad guy", where he's from, where's this movie taking part, why are they talking different language than supposed and how did they manage to place Serbian town Požaervac into Hungary, how the hell muslims lived 600 years in Eastern Europe etc.For all of you who don't know the facts, let me help you:1. This movie is filmed in Hungary, the story of the movie is taking place in Hungary too, but it's supposed to be taking place in Serbia 2. Actors speak Hungarian language, but they are supposedly Serbs 3. They transport imprisoned Cole from Hungarian town to Požarevac (Serbian town), like those 2 towns are in the same country and there are no borders 4. Sophia's brothers have Serbian names, but they speak Hungarian 5. That rifle isn't German Mauser by the way 6. It's not the muslims (Bosnians) who lived there for 600 years, but Serbs and Croats 7. It's not Serbs who were killing and expelling Bosnians but vice versa 8. That "Serbian" general they want to kill doesn't have Serbian name at all and he's obviously a Hungarian according to his name 9. A helicopter which "Serbian" special forces used in film has 'SFOR' inscription on it, which means "Stabilisation Force" and it was NATO's "peacekeeping" force, not Serbian 10.This is just another biased anti-Serbian movie, made to once more represent Serbs as terrorists, heartless murders and worst peopleBottom line: this movie insults the intelligence of average man. I put it into top 3 worst movies I've seen in my life. I don't know is it director's ignorance and stupidity, but knowing how America wants to represent Serbs I bet this is just another biased movie funded by American imperialists and masons, probably by George Soros, who himself is Hungarian. So many misleading and wrong historical facts, language replacement, countries swaping, geographical errors.IF YOU READ THIS - DON'T BOTHER WATCHING THIS CRAP MOVIE!

I cannot believe this movie is scoring so high. Just above everything in this film is wrong. The setting is wrong. The language spoken is wrong. The second sniper being black and not attracting any attention on the streets or from the Serbian soldiers is ludicrous (this is supposedly Serbia, people, not Los Angeles). Tom Berenger, a "sniper", cannot tell a Mosin Nagant from a Mauser. Every fender bender results in spectacular explosions of multiple vehicles. To add insult to injury, Tom Berenger is so overweight, in the scene where he is "running away" from the soldiers, he looks like he is about the have a stroke after 50 steps or so.This flick is an insult to one's intelligence. It makes Steven Seagal's movies look downright intellectual.