Sniper: Assassin's End

'Assassin's End' once again brings the estranged father and son team together, but it's tired. By no means the worst of the series, it still rocks a one note conspiracy storyline. So you get bursts of action as the #1 priority becomes the cliche "get to the bottom of things, find out who's responsible" yarn.

A high-profile trade agreement and the foreign face gets assassinated. Brandon Beckett (Chad Michael Collins) is set up, evidence is planted and on the run he goes. Trying to avoid CIA agents who think he's responsible and an assortment of mercs trying to close off the loose end. A Yukuza hitman / sniper is also dispatched to finish him as well. So he turns to the only person he can trust - his dad.

'Assassin's End' introduced Lady Death (Sayaka Akimoto) & Homeland Security Agent Zero (Ryan Robbins) who would be featured in the next two sequels. Unlike other entries in the series that have good replay value, I won't be rewatching this any time soon. Another appearance from legendary Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) can't save this one from being kind of a bore as it goes thru the motions on the way to a unsatisfying finale.

This is a truly spectacularly bad movie. The storyline was incoherent, the dialog was poor, the characters were all one dimensional cliches, the acting was dreadful, the pacing was too slow to build any suspense, and the "action" scenes were a big nothing. Don't waste your time.

I felt like I was re-watching the movie Shooter for the most part. No innovation, no suspense, no real intrigue, no surprises...Not talking bout the acting and the dialogues as there was really nothing noteworthy on this front as well. Just a n average random movie to watch when one has 90 minutes to kill.

The "Sniper" franchise is a known commodity now, and although "Sniper: Assassin's End" is a step down from "Sniper: Ultimate Kill" and the others that have come before it, right back to the Billy Zane original, Chad Michael Collins' fifth outing as Brandon Beckett has some good action sequences both with and without rifles and is a chance for Brandon to team up with his somewhat-estranged old man, Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) and do what they do best.

At times, the Beckett's were secondary to the characters of Special Agent Zeke "Zero" Rosenberg and the mysterious assassin Doctor Death - as though the powers-that-be were using "Assassin's End" as a backdoor spin-off. They were both good characters, but give me more of the Beckett's, please!

Enjoyable, nonetheless.

For a while I thought I'd been transported back to the 80's.

With a decent story poorly executed, weak direction, cheesy script and atrocious soundtrack this was the sort of thing you hired from blockbuster for 99p for a week.

Mildly entertaining, straight to VHS fodder.