Sniper: The White Raven

It's a good war action movie.

Plus, plus for authenticity. It certainly doesn't put Russians in a good light, and that's another plus. I don't know if the US can make a war movie this good.

The subtitles really fast, and it was irritating to have to freeze the screen so that I could read them. I didn't understand why the reporter saying was necessary, as I don't believe it added anything to the movie more time could've been spent on a love affair between the husband and the wife. I guess that would be called backstory. I did feel the pain and I otherwise love the movie.

Spoilers: This was a multidimensional success, a Ukrainian scientist, quasi-hippy in a makeshift hut in the country, teacher, pacifist in Donbas turns military sniper after wife and unborn child are killed by Russian fueled Ukrainian raiders. It shows news savvy split in Ukrainians, some fighting for Ukraine, some for Russia, with ethnic ties to Russia. But it mostly shows a conversion of the new sniper his comrades call Raven, telling soldiers who first find him, beaten, and his wife shot dead, as they bury her for him. Raven tells them only "We have to throw them out." And he gets very serious about this business, rising to the top sniper in his unit of maybe a dozen snipers, after surviving ridicule of being called a pacifist. Is it justice he seeks or revenge? Among the rest, this is the best explication of how a sniper unit trains and works, what they wear. After you shoot, don't move at all -- the enemy will look for even the slightest movement to return fire. When Raven sees the two who killed his pregnant wife, he ignores orders, opens fire and kills one. It gets his captain beside him killed. Later he sees the other one and kills him, too, on a mission to ferret out the top Russian sniper, who killed his captain. and Raven gets him too, not on a dry-gulch sniper shot, but up close and personal with a knife to the neck. At the end, he heads back to the war after a quick stop at his burned out home, with the peace sign in front made from white rocks on the ground. his wife's grave nearby. Plenty more to do. It's about Ukraine and fighting back against Russians and sympathizers. But it is on another level about any man's move to war, to avenge or protect his own family, not about politics, nor ethics.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. The acting was superb and gave an insight of what the country Crimea went through during the take over from the Russians. It is such a grim view of war and feel the freedom countries need to see this.

Given the timing. It's hard not to think that it is timely released propaganda. Anyways, it's all right military action film.

I was very excited for the movie ever since I watched the trailer and I was not disappointed! Honestly very well produced; from the training scenes to the combat, I was invested. The only gripe I have with the film is it felt like they held back with the length of some sections of the film such as the training, it felt like it should have been longer and explored more, but even still it remains one of my favorite films in recent memory!

几个小段落之间的衔接非常差，剧情基本上就是在"复仇"情绪的驱动下闷头猛冲。最后干掉敌狙击手的选择竟然是近身手刃，多少有点跑题的感觉。摄影不错，画面的美感多多少少填补了本片在内容和情绪上的空白。

There's not really much feeling that the movie awakened in me, no reason to really cry or anything, however the movie was pretty alright or good overall and I liked the cinematography. I watched it with original audio and English subtitles, which gave it a feeling that is a bit more "home" to the movie. Not sure if it exists in English tone as well. It constantly felt like the characters were teleporting and as if in that world only snipers existed. There's not a lot of complexity in this movie either, but I don't regret watching it at all!

Great movie. Very close to reality.