O Atirador: o Extermínio Final

Did not expected to enjoy this movie.

Good acting by Chad, Janay, billy Zane, and Tom and antagonist sniper.

Good production values for a DTV movie, couple of good action scenes with sniper tension.

Overall nice watch.

1. Story: poor storyline, looks like someone made a 90 minutes movie out of 10 minutes story. 2. Screenplay: they tried but!! 3. Directions: looks likes a 10th grader school boy

Jesus Morales, a Colombian drug lord has hired a sniper, known as 'El Diablo', to eliminate the competition and thus control the flow of drugs from Colombia to the United States. An operation to capture or kill Morales and his sniper is launched. It is led by DEA agent Kate Estrada and includes USMC sniper Master Sergeant Brandon Beckett. After an early setback it becomes clear that El Diablo is a skilled professional, rather than a self-taught amateur; it is also clear that he has a state-of-the-art rifle firing experimental homing ammunition. Estrada and Beckett will have a hard time getting their targets.

This is not a great film, far from it, but for a straight to DVD release it is pretty solid. There is a good amount of action and some decent moments of high tension. There are also plenty of clichés and technical errors not to mention the fictional ammunition available to the snipers... it would have been much better if had kept things more real. There are some fairly poor effects; showing CGI bullets as they head to their targets got old ages ago. On the plus side the acting is decent enough and we didn't get any cliché romance between Beckett and Estrada. I can't really say how it compares to other films in the 'Sniper' franchise; the only other one I've seen was the original and that was over twenty years ago. Overall not a must see but a solid enough film if you have ninety minutes to kill and enjoy the genre.

As a stand alone movie this is average fare, nothing more.

The sniper scenes lack any real tension and its all very predictable.

Honestly though, how many more movies does this dodgy franchise need?

Is it trying to become Police Academy???

First off, Things like mounting a Light between the Sights shows a lack of a Clue on the part of the Technical Director. The writters scripting things like You could all be court marshaled when talking to civilians , Typical Hollywood Guns that do magic. The acting is the strongest part of the Movie... That is saying something. While I hoped for much more I was sadly disappointed. Hollywood hire people that know something if you want to make this kind of movie.