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Silent Trigger (1996)

Silent Trigger poster
Directed by
Russell Mulcahy
Genre
action film
Country
United Kingdom, Italy, United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
18
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 118 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former special forces soldier works as an assassin for a secret agency. He is sent to shoot a target from an unfinished skyscraper, but his past returns when his old spotter appears.

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What happens

Silent Trigger is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Russell Mulcahy starring Dolph Lundgren and Gina Bellman about a sniper and his female spotter. Lundgren plays Waxman, a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin sent on a mission by a secretive "Agency", to assassinate a target from an abandoned skyscraper in construction. Memories and moral dilemmas resurface when a former spotter from a failed assignment shows up. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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