Sniper Reloaded is a new chapter in the "Sniper" franchise (that had previously spawned 3 movies starring Tom Berenger as Tom Beckett). This time, Brandon Beckett, Tom's son, is on a peace mission in UN to extract a foreign citizen when a sniper ambushed their team, apparently killing everyone (except Beckett himself, who fell into a ditch). He survived and somehow made it to safety. His father's old partner, Miller (Billy Zane from the first movie) came to help "train" Beckett to confront the sniper, only known as "The Italian". There is a conspiracy that reach up the ranks, and only one will be walking away from this encounter.
The problem with this movie is the whole plot is rather contrived. Why send the "rescue team" at all if the sniper was already there? Can an American soldier in a UN base in Africa just go AWOL without anyone even checking?
And they had to redo the "shot through the sniper-scope" thing AGAIN, sheesh. Seems you can't do a sniper movie without that cliche nowadays. It was in "Saving Private Ryan" and it was in at least one of the previous Sniper movies as well. And now here is it again.
Still, if you turn your brain mostly off it is somewhat enjoyable, with no major quibbles.
Rating: Try it (i.e. rent it)
Sniper: Reloaded
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