Rhada Mitchell and Tim Roth star in the action thriller Seven Snipers.
There is something to be said about a good villain. Tim Roth has made a career out of playing them. Whether it was his Oscar-nominated performance in Rob Roy or his turn in the MCU as the Abomination or his cheeky role as Oswaldo Mulbery in The Hateful Eight, the actor has brought his specific gravitas to villainy. The same can be said about a good hero(ine). Rhada Mitchell has spent a career playing complex heroes, from the sci-fi classic Pitch Black to horror cult classic Silent Hill to the underappreciated killer croc film Rogue. The two work overtime in the action thriller Seven Snipers to elevate the movie from its B-movie origins.
Retired Sniper Kris “Voodoo Child” Hendricks (Mitchell) lives a quiet existence in the Australian countryside with her teenage daughter (Annabel Wolfe). As a stranger approaches, the moment she has been living in fear has come true… The Dragon (Roth) has found her. A small squad of snipers attempts to help Hendricks, but is of no use as the Dragon begins to hunt them down one at a time. To what end is the Dragon toying with Kris and her daughter, and can both make it out alive?
Seven Snipers is a lean, economical 90-minute action thriller, light on exposition and plot. Director Sandra Sciberras and writer Andrew O’Keefe have constructed a tense thriller that is more about the personal stakes than it is about the action moments. By casting Mitchell and Roth, the film has gained a sense of unpredictable urgency that, like the best horror movies, you truly don’t know who’s going to win out, the Killer or the Final Girl. Each of the actors brings weight to their roles, elevating the material. Sciberras, working with cinematographer Andrew Conder, keeps the entire picture visually clean with a sense of geography that many newer action films do not possess. This one will surprise action fans as it’s a cut above most PVOD genre fare.