Seven Snipers arrives on Digital beginning June 6 from Well Go USA.
Filmmaker Sandra Sciberras has her finger aptly on the pulse with a movie like Seven Snipers. The film has a top notch cast led by Radha Mitchell in a tough-as-nails performance, opposite Tim Roth in one of his most menacing roles yet.
The clever part about what Seven Snipers accomplishes with a script by Andrew O’Keefe is that doesn’t overplay itself between segments. The film’s delivery and performances allow greatly for the viewer to read things as they are with characters who are honest in their depictions and nuanced moments. It’s sharp writing on O’Keefe’s part and I love it, because it makes the audience truly feel engaged.
To that end, the film thrusts you into the stoic travails of Chris (Mitchell), a former soldier now living out her live out on a farm with rebellious daughter, Anja (Annabel Wolfe). What follows is a full-throttle tale of survival and unearthed secrets when the Dragon (Roth) arrives with a long-awaited vendetta to come and claim what’s his.
Sterling supporting cast includes Ioan Gruffudd, Lee Tiger Halley, Charles Cottier, Pacharo Mzembe, Damien Ryan, and Bianca Wallace, with a brief appearance by Ryan Kwanten just short of ten minutes before the first explosive gun battles ensues. The remainder of the film – wrapped in a hypnotic score by Mike Forst – sees much of the confrontation contained at the farm location with select sequences also taking place at a distant camp site, wherein the story continues to fill in the gaps.
Key flashbacks provide enough visual aid as our characters lay clear the stakes. The best part is that even as you can tell something is about to happen, you don’t really know when, or how, lending a ton of suspense throughout the film to keep you on the edge of your seat almost until the final shot (no pun intended).
Seven Snipers crackles through and through for close to a ninety-minute duration minus credits. It’s a pulsating, scintillating survival action thriller that pulls you in almost right away, grabbing you by the nerves and daring you to move just like a crackshot with a target in their sights. My advice? Sit. Eyes on the screen. Watch.
