The Sniper (2009)

Just watch the much controversial Edison Chen starred movie called The Sniper. Before I go on, I would like to say I'm giving the movie a 4.5 Stars out of 5. Very nice movie!

The movie revolved around a elite police Sniper Squad. In the squad there were two top snipers who were always competing with each other to be the best. Ming (starred by Ren Xian Qi) and Ching (Huang Xiaoming) were strong competitors with Ching being the top shooter all the time. Ming was undoubtedly rather jealous of Ching's achievements and promotions in the squad.

In one mission involving a bank robbery, Ching noticed the robber was about to use the grenade, hence decided to take the headshot even though an order was given to stand down. Ching took the shot and missed killing a hostage standing in front of the robber. As there were only two snipers including Ching (the other is Ming), only Ming saw the entire scenario clearly. When an inquiry was made to investigate why Ching disobeyed a direct order to stand down, Ming lied to the committee by saying he did not notice that the robber wanted to use the grenade, hence Ching's shot was uncalled for. This caused Ching to be charged with manslaugher and imprisoned for 4 years.

When he was freed, he wanted revenge on Ming and the entire sniper squad, which now has a new sniper "O" (starred by Edison Chen). O was a very talented sniper too as Ming said, but overly confident at sometimes. All the sniper squad member were killed by Ching in a stand off except for O who manages to get a shot at him when Ming used himself as a bait to make Ching's position vulnerable.

The story was normal, you know, the usual competitor matter, one cheated, the other coming back for revenge. But the way the story went was nice. The silly thing about this show is the choice of actors unfortunately, I don't understand why they chose Ren Xian Qi to act in this cantonese movie when his cantonese is really weak. I'm not sure whether Huang Xiaoming is a native speaker of cantonese or not, but I doubt so too.

Nonetheless, this show still get 4.5 stars from me. Generally, good movie for guys to go watch. Girls may just find it boring. Except the part where the sniper team are training as the were shirtless showing off their 6 packs!!! Haha... Have fun...

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