It is mostly Boys’ Own (or Dads’ Own) stuff, but with one or two little very grisly bits.Īpart from a couple of tiny longueurs for the usual war moralising, it is a pretty exciting B-movie adventure, realistic and often intense and scary. Sniper is a predictable but tense war action thriller, competently make and neatly acted, with the star team working efficiently together. Sniper *** (1993, Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 11,272ĭirector Luis Llosa’s 1993 Sniper stars Billy Zane as American rookie Richard Miller, who is helicoptered into South America to join US Marine veteran Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) on a killing mission of a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.
