Sniper 3

Sniper 3 is a 2004 American direct-to-video action film starring Tom Berenger, Byron Mann, Denis Arndt and John Doman. It was directed by P.J. Pesce, It is the sequel to the 2002 film Sniper 2 and is the third installment in the Sniper film series. Plot Some time after the events of Sniper 2, Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) is still adjusting to his return in the U.S. Marine Corps. His commanding officer, Captain Laraby (Troy Winbush) thinks he is too old and bull-headed to still be active duty. Beckett attends the wedding of Neil Finnegan (Ken Streutker), the son of his best friend, Paul Finnegan, who served with him in Vietnam and saved his life before he was killed just before the fall of Saigon. Beckett reads a letter written given to him by Paul decades earlier just in case he did not make it to his son's wedding day. Beckett then dances with Paul's widow, Sydney (Jeannetta Arnette), who later does an X-ray on Beckett's hand and informs him that when he lost his trigger finger, he suffered nerve damage which is causing his digitorum tendon to trigger involuntary jerks of his other fingers on his injured hand. She encourages Beckett to retire from the Marines for his health and hints that he should ask her on a date. Beckett is later approached by two officials from the Central Intelligence Agency, Director William Avery (Denis Arndt) and Deputy Director Richard Addis (William Duffy). Avery reveals to Beckett that Finnegan's death was faked in Vietnam and he is actually still alive. The CIA recruited him prior to the fall of Saigon and used him to run drugs out of Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge. However, Finnegan went insane and is now a drug and weapons trafficker known as the "King Cobra". He has amassed a large group of child soldiers and his group lives in the tunnels under the jungles of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Avery claims that Finnegan is the "head of the snake", and if he is killed, his child soldiers will have no leader and "the snake will die". Finnegan has been marked for elimination because he has even aided terrorism after providing support for Jemaah Islamiyah, and is about to be captured by the Vietnamese authorities which would cause an international incident.