Review – Sniper

The first time I saw this (I think it was in theaters at the time), I went into it thinking that being a military sniper would actually be an interesting thing to do. Boy, not if this story is any indication. The shooting sequences are fun, but the rest of it is a dreadful mash about an old Marine paired up with a rookie intel bureaucrat for a sniping mission in the jungles of Panama. They’re barely out of the base before they start bickering with each other, which continues for almost all of the rest of the movie. Indeed, the two spend more time sniping at each other – figuratively for most of the way and then literally by the end of the movie – than anything else. What a disappointment. Mildly amusing