a5c7b9f00b A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself. A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, working for an unknown client, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's (Sean Penn's) successful kill shot forces him to go into hiding to protect himself and the members of the team from retribution. This includes abruptly abandoning his girlfriend who has no idea what is going on. The assassination, paid for by a foreign mining company, triggers wide spread chaos and death in an already inflamed Congo. Terrier returns to the Congo years later working for an NGO, but eventually finds himself to be the target of a paid hit squad somehow connected to the ministers assassination. This leads to immediate deaths and the endangerment of the people working around him, and forces him back into hiding. In trying to discover who has put a price on his head, he begins to reconnect to the members of his old assassination team, including his old girlfriend. Always aware there is no path to redemption for his crimes, he is also periodically incapacitated by a type of accumulated and evolving physical brain damage caused by the hard knocks of his occupation. Unexpectedly, given the time that has elapsed, his reconnection to his old assassination team exposes additional intrigues with immediate deadly consequences. All of his years spent in hiding, have merely delayed the twisted end game that now enfolds. Sean Penn is yet another hypocritical hack starring in a movie about gun violence, yet all the while preaching about gun control.<br/><br/>This movie is difficult to swallow (and by difficult I mean so hard to believe I almost expected Barney the Dinosaur or the killer from Scream to jump out and yell "Boo! Ha Ha I was just kidding guys!"<br/><br/>The bad guys all must have learned how to shoot at Storm Trooper School.<br/><br/>I mean honestly, how do you expect us to believe any of this garbage when supposed professional contractors have a hit ratio that is harder to calculate than the last four digits of Pi? This film gives itself away in the first few minutes; i.e., the bad guying enviously eyeing up the cuddling hero and heroine. About a third of the way through you have seen all you need to know about the plot and the bad guys: HINT: Suits, nice offices, money : Bad. Blue jeans, the streets and pubs, surfing : Good. The only issue is how much money will be spent bringing this tired movie exercise to an end. Penn and Winstone are two of my favorite actors. They're just going through the motions in this film. I cannot recommend wasting time with this loser of a film. It’s one thing to bring a gravelly gravitas to characters like this, but Penn suffers and glowers so much that it weighs down the material. If he plans to strap on the Kevlar in future, he might consider lightening up a little and saving the intensity for more serious movies.
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