Jeri Jacquin
Coming to Bluray from director Sandra Sciberras and Well Go USA comes a fight against greed and destruction when it comes to SEVEN SNIPERS.
Voodoo (Radha Mitchell) is a former elite sniper who now lives on a spread in the Australian countryside with her daughter Anja (Annabel Wolfe). While Anja is out on a camping trip with her boyfriend, Voodoo is visited by a man pretending to be a real estate agent. Phillips (Ryan Kwante) isn’t there to talk about the price of her land; instead, he is just the beginning of a reason she needs help.
Who is out to get her? A man they call The Dragon (Tim Roth), and just by the mention of his name is causes people to run away. Calling in her former elite colleagues White Dog (Damien Ryan), Junior (Charles Cottier), Nico (Pacharo Mzembe), Milk (Ioan Gruffudd), and Kaldayev (Bianca Wallace). The problem is, the Dragon is faster, sharper, and it doesn’t take long for the hits to come.
Anja is as headstrong as her mother as she takes off to go find the boyfriend she left behind at the campgrounds. The girl finally realizes that this is all actually happening and she needs to rely on her mother more than ever if they are to make it out of this alive.
Mitchell as Voodoo is a woman who spent years in the military doing things no one else wants to do. Finding her way to the remote Australian farm to get away from it all, there is always a chance things could come back to haunt her, but never like this. Mitchell gives her character the strength to not only know to call for help, but who to call because of how good they are. I like that in a character, but I love it in a female character that doesn’t take any garbage. Well done.
Roth as the Dragon plays his role as I always see when he plays a bad guy. Here again is a character that doesn’t rattle easily, doesn’t get upset when things don’t go exactly right, and is not moved by emotion. That’s what makes him such a fantastic actor to watch in this film. Every move he makes is deliberate, and his patience is flawless…except when it isn’t. Cottier as Junior is dealing with fright, but at the same time it is clear that he at least wants to try. Mzembe as Nico also spends his time in the field looking for the elusive Dragon.
Gruffudd as Milk is equally as patient because he knows the man that’s hunting them. Knowing the enemy is half the battle. That doesn’t mean he’s going to take anything that happens lying down; instead, he holds his ground. He has a history with both the Dragon and Voodoo, and that history can also be used as a weapon. Wolfe as Anja is a teenager who one minute thinks she knows what’s best because she’s oh-so-grown and the next, she’s blaming her mother for things with no understanding of the situation at all. Yeah, I’m not a big fan of teens in films these days. I don’t have a soft spot for teen characters that think they know more than anyone else around them, putting more people in danger. Just not a fan.
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SEVEN SNIPERS is basic town down to the bare minimum film that doesn’t mess around. Instead, it brings the action and suspense front and center where it should be. This is definitely a no-frills story, but that makes it actually more enjoyable to watch. There aren’t any exploding buildings or screaming and raging; instead, it's pure survival in its primal form.
The cinematography works in this film because it keeps the focus on the trees, the field, and the house. Focus on that, and it is even more thrilling because it is all about what you can’t see. By the time you catch on, another one drops and no one knows the direction it has come from. The suspense is drawn out time and time again until the epic confrontation comes to its surprising conclusion.
The cast gets a chance to tackle roles in a dark story, and I enjoyed each of them. Personally happy to see Kwanten and Gruffudd on the screen again. Mitchell is a complete badass of the highest order, and Roth is making sure every scene is filled with tension and shock! The film is loosely inspired by the Akira Kurosawa masterpiece SEVEN SAMURAI.
In the end – she escaped her past until it hunted her down!
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