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Sniper: Ultimate Kill

By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 17+

U.S. agents capture drug lord; graphic violence, sex.

Movie R 2017 90 minutes
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What's the Story?

In SNIPER: ULTIMATE KILL Brandon (Chad Michael Collins) is a Marine sergeant and trained sniper with more than 60 kills who's recruited by his retired sniper dad's old friend and CIA colleague, Richard Miller (Billy Zane), to help kill or capture a dangerous drug kingpin in Bogota, Colombia. In Bogota, Marine Kate Estrada (Danay Garcia) has been working with a U.S. Homeland Security agent (Joe Lando) and the CIA to take the bad guy, Morales (Juan Sebastian Caleros), down. Brandon joins her task force and immediately their operations start going wrong. Intel sends them and a dozen armed troops to a safe house where Morales is supposed to be staying, but the house is empty and rigged with explosives to kill the Marines. A sniper is waiting outside to pick off survivors. Many are wounded and die. Other leads Kate and Brandon pursue are also compromised, leading the team to believe there is an American mole helping Morales. A priest informant is killed, forcing Kate and Brandon to go off the grid, looking for the sniper, the drug lord, and the mole. Morales is caught but his extradition to a Miami federal court leads to more shooting and sabotages.

Is It Any Good?

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This movie is as generic and originality-free as its name would suggest. The plot is fill-in-the-blank simple all the way, but the true test of Sniper: Ultimate Kill's banality and ineptitude is in its attempts to humanize its rather robotic characters. A Marine sniper with 67 kills commits suicide, but this development isn't integrated into the plot in any meaningful way that would merit its inclusion. Another Marine sniper is assigned to a confidential operation run by his father, and although some tension between them is suggested, the reason for that tension is neither explored nor brought to bear on the substance of the action. Only devotees of the previous Sniper films, originated with Berenger playing the sniper, will understand all the history. Fans of shoot-'em-ups may be satisfied with the blood, action, and guns, but there's nothing else here of value.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about what might be satisfying about movies in which bad guys get beaten by presumably good guys. The hero of Sniper: Ultimate Kill is a sniper with more than 60 "kills." The criminals he's hunting down have also killed lots of people. How does the movie encourage us to side with one killer against the other?

  • The movie mimics plots of many other movies you may have seen. Can you name some? Does its lack of originality detract from your enjoyment? Why or why not?

  • Does the violence in this movie seem necessary or gratuitous? Why?

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