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Sniper: Ultimate Kill is a 2017 American action film directed by Claudio Fh and starring Chad Michael Collins, Billy Zane, and Tom Berenger.[1][2][3] The film is the seventh installment of the Sniper film series and a sequel to Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016). It was released direct-to-video on October 3, 2017.

Colombian drug kingpin Jess Morales hires a skilled sniper known as "El Diablo" to eliminate all of his enemies, enabling him to gain more control over routes for smuggling drugs into the United States. Kate Estrada, a DEA agent, was sent to Colombia with Master Sergeant Brandon Beckett to stop "El Diablo" and extradite Morales.

I realize that the child probably won't know that they are being shot at by the sniper (and therefore might not get scared). But still it's a chance he has time to take. So why doesn't he take it? I assume it's against some kind of rules snipers have. Is that it? Is that because you might miss and actually hit them so before shooting close you have to decide they're going down logic?

In the source novel he acts under direct orders from a superior officer. He does briefly hesitate, but largely because this is his first sniper kill rather than out of any special sympathy for the woman.

Those rules specifically authorise the deadly use of force to kill an opponent and to prioritise American military lives. Trying to 'warn him off' would have merely prolonged the encounter and further risked American Marine casualties.

There's no "warning", any person having been under fire or having been involved in any kind of conflict will tell you. It's your people/you, or it's the other one. In the movie, you see Chris Kyle observing the woman and the kid (their clothes, their hands, their moves...), taking time to weigh the potential threat. It's either a threat, and the marksman takes the shot, or it's not, and he doesn't.

If a movie wants to be accurate, they try and stick to the reality of the ground. You don't warn your enemy. That would be your last mistake. And if it's not an enemy/threat, but just a civilian, why disclose your position?

Time: The first kill that you write about in the book, you actually kill a woman and she has in one hand the hand of her toddler, and then in the other hand she has a grenade. Was that the hardest of the kills you had to do?

Either someone is a valid target and lethal force is justified, or they aren't. In a combat situation, the only thing a "warning shot" does is warn the target that there's a sniper in the area. Sure, maybe there's a chance they'll get spooked, run off, and try again later. More likely, though, they'll just take action to make themselves harder to kill, while still trying to complete their objective.

A sniper's job is to deliver precise shots against unaware targets. If you read about actual snipers, you'll find plenty of stories about them spending hours or even days setting up a shot, but you'll rarely read about one firing a second time, even if the first shot misses.

Each of the 10 films includes at least one member of the Beckett family: Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) or his son, eventual Master Gunnery Sergeant Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins). They are both U.S. Marines. They are both hotheads. They are both very good at sniping.

Collins will vastly improve as he takes the series over. But here, he just kind of looks like someone left Zach Gilford and John Cena in the Brundle machine for a few seconds less than the instructions suggested. Brandon is part of a squad ordered to rescue a European farmer from rebel territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for reasons so unclear they are, of course, immediately suspicious. This sets up a scenario where the squad is violently picked off by a rogue sniper and pinned down inside a giant cargo crate; had Sniper: Reloaded spent more than five minutes on this, it would have worked a lot better than its eventual destination.

After bottoming out on unjustly overlooked Hollywood flops like Stone Cold and Action Jackson, director Craig R. Baxley beat a retreat to B-tier material. However, he never lost his functionary prowess or exceptional photography of explosions. Baxley also evokes appropriately antagonistic back-and-forth between Berenger and Bokeem Woodbine as two dudes just born to die and concludes the film with a strong sniper-versus-sniper confrontation.

But it befits an absurd movie that now holds on as tenuously to its initial IP as this film does those letters as the initials for returning character Intelligence Pete (Josh Brener, who portrayed Bighead on Silicon Valley). Still, Sniper: G.R.I.T. Global Response & Intelligence Team washes out the rotten aftertaste of its franchise-worst predecessor, Sniper: Rogue Mission, with an impressive rinse of practical blood, jovial humor and thrifty on-location spectacle that shames a lot of other straight-to-VOD efforts (and, quite frankly, mainstream tax-shelter bullshit like Expend4bles).

A legitimately well-crafted action-thriller that also delivers the DTV goods of explosive violence. You could complain about digital squibbing, I suppose, but this one at least attempts to level the scales with a substantial amount of actual blood splatter and spurting.

Some might huffily laugh at its every-20-minutes plot segmentation as a video-game-level approach; hell, there might be a video game predicated on terrorists mirroring the movement of American drones or at least a Tom Clancy Presents novel or whatever publishers are calling them now. But it sure works here, with sufficient chapter-driven storytelling and rich supporting turns from a pair of veteran performers.

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Last night we went to see the new Bradley Cooper film 'American Sniper'. As we crunched our way across the quiet, icy parking lot towards the cinema I was mildly aware of an ambient discomfort with going to see a film depicting real-life, present day war. By halfway through the opening scene, my wife was in tears and I was feeling an overwhelming sense of ignorance. The chomping sound of my popcorn stood out for me as a pitiful marker of disassociation from reality. I questioned my decision to be 'entertained' by a dramatisation of still unfolding, real world tragedy.

This new form of entertainment - action movie depictions of current, violent political events - is not something I enjoy. There is no 'joy' in watching people suffer and die. And yet, I am drawn to these films.

It is as if my curiosity for 'what's happening out there' can be indulged, while keeping the rest of me at a safe distance. I get to quench my thirst for engagement in the world without risking anything, save maybe $20 and a night out.

In some sense, my interest in the recent youth rebellion/dystopian films (Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, etc) comes from the same place. A desire to feel part of the revolution without having to actually DO anything (except chomp popcorn). With these kinds of films, my inaction is not so confronting though. They are fiction and so easy to write off as 'entertainment'.

As we sat watching the film, I knew that for my British born wife, the extreme American nationalism behind each bullet that exploded from Cooper's character Chris Kyle's rifle, was even more unsettling for her than it was for me. As the 'kill count' tallied like in a video game, I watched with embarrassing disdain the screenwriters meek attempt to balance this with Kyle's supposed focus on 'lives saved'. They could have just as easily left it out and not shifted the perspective of the film.

What blew my mind is how strongly the film depicted the 'enemy' as evil and the US military as 'good'. It was a modern day Cowboys and Indians (in fact, Chris Kyle WAS literally a cowboy before he became Navy Seal). In the closing scene of the film, you see Kyle leave home with a man holding a sombre look on his face. The screen fades to black and in one line reads the text 'Chris Kyle was killed by a veteran he was trying to help.'

From there, through the closing credits, you watch footage from the actual Chris Kyle's military funeral procession through Texas. Thousands of patriots line the streets with flags and signs praising 'The Legend' and his 160 confirmed kills, the most in US military history.

Not for a moment does the film visit the irony that despite spending years overseas taking the lives of men, women and children, The Legend was taken from his own wife and children in his home state.

In most obvious light, my choice to visit the true tragedies of the world through dissociative 'entertainment' may represent a lack of courage and an absence of impact. My fear of personal loss is certainly a contributing factor.
In less obvious light though, I wonder if my choice to stand on the sideline and watch armed with opinions instead of being on the field carrying explosives is a statement in itself.

In 1999 I withdrew my place in the USAF ROTC program at the last minute. I couldn't stomach the idea that one day I may have had to kill people over what was essentially a misunderstanding. I couldn't justify murder, even under the powerful spell of nationalism.

I do not believe going to see films like American Sniper means that I 'support' their ideology. These films emotionally engage me in the current and active story of the world. Maybe this engagement is what I need to stop standing there armed with opinions and to start speaking them.

The discomfort was no longer ambient. It was in my hands and on the steering wheel now. I just watched it though, knowing this is what Kyle must have felt while holding the trigger of his rifle. And for a moment at least, despite wishing his killing legacy had not such an echo of unquestioned justification, I loved Chris Kyle for being human.

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