The first of the many sequels to 1993 military flick “Sniper”. While the rest of the sequels to date have been direct-to-video, “Sniper 2” was first shown on tv. It’s a really disappointing sequel that fails to capture the excitement of the first movie and it ends up being one of the most boring military movies I’ve seen.

Tom Berenger (“Platoon”, “Sniper”) returns as Thomas Beckett. He’s sent on an assignment in Eastern Europe to take out a Serbian despot, who is committing atrocities against the Muslims in the region. However, the mission is not a straightforward as it first appears as the U.S. government has more complex plans.

In the first movie, you really bought that Berenger was a hardened military veteran. Here, he just seems completely miserable and uninterested in what is going on. As a result, we in the audience feel pretty much the same. Bokeem Woodbine (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) plays Beckett’s spotter and he’s somehow even more dull. If this is meant to be a secret mission, the two do a pretty poor job trying to hide in plain sight. Bokeem Woodbine certainly doesn’t look like he could pass for a local in a war-torn part of Eastern Europe. Apparently, the characters speaking Serbian are actually speaking Hungarian so it’s clear the filmmakers were not even trying to make this movie convincing.

The first “Sniper” movie had the far more pleasing aesthetic with its jungle setting, it had more interesting characters and it had more gripping sniper action. This movie just feels so lazy. It’s not like this film was rushed out as it came out nearly a decade after the first movie so there is no excuse for it to be this shoddy. I strongly dislike “Sniper 2” and it doesn’t give me much hope for the later sequels.