3/5 A poor man's Apocalypse Now
  by Shtarka (Borneo, Indonesia)
Bergeron's character Becket is tapped to take out a warlord who has gone over to the Dark Side...the warlord happens to be his best friend who has been presumed dead after saving Becket's life in the Vietnam War. If you can get past this derivative and far-fetched plot, the scenes in Vietnam, the action sequences, and Bergeron's acting make this an ok movie.

5/5 A really great climax to the original
  by Joanne A. Vega (Staten Island, New York USA)
This is a really great climax to the original movie "Sniper" This is a must have for real collectors.

4/5 AND ALL OF THE ABOVE - [COMMENTS]
  by M. Hartmann (Milan, Michigan United States)
First off - the crass language. [Were they trying to make this movie trashy?] Certainly not intensely masculine!

Beckett is back - [not with the honed body we would have like to see] but still a strong masculine charisma.

Yup! being done dirt to by his superiors? They want him dead too! That would eliminate all their loose ends.

I was waiting to hear that he had gone back and eliminated them.
I did get what I was waiting for though. A shot that seems impossible to make. Doing what seems impossible is what we look for in our Super Heroes and especially our Snipers.

Come on you guys. What is with you that you cheapen our good movies [almost good] with barnyard language.
I really get disgusted with woman [and men for that matter] with vulgar mouths. I blame this on the writers and directors who seem to have illiterate minds.
Vulgarity is not a sign of masculine charisma - just low-bred mongrels.

I enjoyed Beckett - I ignored the crass language - and I love the shot! For Mature audiences only.




2/5 Give Tom Berenger a Chance; He Deserves a Better Film Than This Badly Told B-Movie
  by Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan)
For those who still remember the terrific acting of Tom Berenger in Oliver Stone's 'Platoon,' it is painful to watch him in 'Sniper 3' (which is also set in Vietnam). Not that the film is a complete failure. Actually, Tom Berenger's performace as the veteran sniper Thomas Beckett is fairly good, if not his best. But the film's lazy direction (from the director of 'From the Dusk till Dawn: 3' ... no wonder) is too conspicous, killing the potential that some of the actions and characters might have.

Not much can be called original about the script of 'Sniper 3.' Thomas Beckett is sent to Vietnam, where he fought his war with his buddy during the war 30 years ago. But Beckett is informed that the friend who is supposed to be dead is now ruling the underground community as druglord (the idea inspired by 'Apocalypse Now'). And Beckett's assignment is to kill him.

Byron Mann appears as Sgt. Beckett's partner from Vietnam, and Thailand provides the convincing locations for the backdrop. Both actors did good acting, and the film tries to show the deeper characterization about Beckett, who talks about his old days, and even attends a wedding party (not drunk for that matter). The results of the efforts are not bad.

But the actions are so-so at best, with shoddy editing that often makes me wonder what is going on. For example, after Beckett's first 'hit,' a shoot-out scene at the rooftop begins, but as the film fails to show who is shooting (at) who, the sequence only shows alternately the confusing images of men shooting guns and men who got shot. And I still do not fully understand what happened in the last chapter, the terribly hurried and awfully incoherent wrap-up that comes with bamboo impalement. Excuse me, but I thought this is about a sniper's story...right?

Though the film is watchable thanks to the actors and locale, 'Sniper 3' reminds us of the fact that we really need somebody who can save Tom Berenger from this Grade B straight-to-video hell.

2/5 Not good enough.
  by Puzzle box (Kuwait)
I think that sniper 3 could of had potential but it was bad. unlike sniper 1 and 2 this film was so unrealistic and wasn't even good as the first two films, this time seargent Thomas Beckett goes to vietnam to assassinate a friend of his that he thought was dead many years ago it seems that hes become a suspected terrorist and Beckett has become a drunk and insufficeant person that it becomes unlikely that hes choosen for this mission. It seems that the film suffers from alot of faults like Tom Berenger gaining alot of weight and he doesn't look good for his role as a sniper, maybe hes geting old and this time the story just wasn't good enough for another film to be made so I hope that this one becomes the last in the series.