[GW45]

Went and bought Sniper II with Tom Berenger in it last night - It was alright. Not as good as the first one - but when have sequels ever been as good as the original???

The ending sucks. Just to let you know - left too much left undone...

One complaint I did have is where MGySgt Beckett picks up a rifle and calls it a German Mauser - it looks like a Russian Nagant. I say it is one, since I have both the German Mauser and the Russian Nagant. Then the bolt on the rifle is straight out and then somehow during the movie towards the end - it's bent.....

Hollywood magic - you have to love it.......

[Art Eatman]

I tend toward a generally negative attitude toward Hollywood gun-stuff. The way guns are used, people's reactions to the sight of guns, just about everything...

I guess the "bit" that has always torqued my nervous system around is where the "Sniper" assembles his custom-made thingummy, sets in on the sandbags or pillows or whatever, and then he twiddles with the scope adjustments!

About the only believable gun-handling I recall was in the movie "Thief", with James Caan. He used a custom 1911, Weaver stance, and an ISI style of search mode. And, the credits indeed gave major credit about the guns and training.

Rifles? "Brown on Resolution" was Forester's book's title; don't recall the movie's name. A Tommy played sniper and held up the repairs on a German warship, delaying things until the British navy got to the scene.

Art

[Fed168]

Was he filing the bullet down again?

[GW45]

No, he didn't do that this time.

Shot another guy through the scope - really lame scene - the first time in Sniper was better.

[Badger Arms]

Isn't shooting through the scope a Carlos Hathcock legend? I read his autobiography and that story was related in there but I've seen hollywood apply it to Stalingrad and to Saving Private Ryan.

Accurate gunplay in a movie? My vote would have to go toward 'Heat' with Val Kilmer, Robert Dinero and Al Pachino. I didn't find too much fault with any of the gunplay there.

[Steve in PA]

Shooting through the scope was from Hathcocks books Sniper. He ended up shooting an enemy sniper through his scope. If I remember correctly someone who interviewed him said that was a pretty good shot. But Carlos said it only meant that he shot first, meaning the enemy sniper had him in his scope as well.

I've seen Sniper II and it sucks big time!!!! A total waste of a movie. Sniper I was way, way better.

[tlhelmer]

I think it was also in a Stephen Hunter novel as well.