Sniper

Sniper (1993)

24 mistakes

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Directed by: Luis Llosa

Starring: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young

Genres: Action, Drama

Continuity mistake: When Beckett uses Miller as bait for the other sniper tracking them, he dangles a different knife in the water than the KA-BAR knife he pulls back up.

Factual error: When in the helicopter the red dot from Miller's sights stays motionless on the EXACT same spot on the man's back - impossible from a helicopter. Doubly so if compared to the scene at the lake, where Miller is sitting totally still and the red dot is moving back and forth over the swimming guy's head.

Jacob La Cour

Factual error: The only railroad in Panama is runing North-South right along the Panama Canal. Not very usable to get "deep into the jungle" - and there are no mountains.

Jacob La Cour

Factual error: When Berenger and Zane are resting, Berenger brings up the "best steelhead fishing" in the state of Montana. Since a steelhead has to migrate to the sea and return to be a steelhead, there is no ocean access to rivers in Montana.

goofyfoot

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Trivia: The movie Sniper is actually a factual story loosely based on the biography of a United States Marine Corp Sgt. Carlos Hathcock. Sgt. Hathcock was a sniper during the Vietnam war. A book called "Marine Sniper" written by Charles Henderson has the same stories where Tom Beringer crawls across the field to get into range to shoot the drug lord and also where Berenger is stalked by the enemy sniper where he shoots him the other sniper and the bullet goes through the rifle scope. Those two scenes actually happened in real life.

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Answer: According to an old post on the Bladeforums website, it was an 8" Al Mar Shadow.

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