Sentences with phrase «as the sniper in»

In 1943, there were over 2,000 women fighting as snipers in the front line.

The longtime character actor starred in over 200 films over the years (notably Straight Time, Blade Runner, and as the sniper in The Jerk), but he was never better than in this role.

Sniper Elite quickly became a series of games that would fill the void for sniper shooters and fans of that specific genre since most fps focuses on diversity, and lets face it if you play as a sniper in any fps multiplayer nobody likes you, sorry, but the Sniper Elite series managed to capture a rather large audience with the previous releases and should get alot of fans hooked on this release too.

You take the role as the sniper in an arcade points style shooter were each shot to a zombie will build up your high score.

Not exact matches

Kyle, who died in 2013 after being shot by a former Marine who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, had 160 confirmed kills under his belt from his time as a Navy SEAL sniper in Iraq.

The distance of that shot was 2,460 yards — almost a mile and a half — and it stood as a record until broken in 2002 by Canadian sniper Arron Perry in Afghanistan.

This is where Hathcock would earn the nickname «White Feather» — because he always wore a white feather on his bush hat, daring the North Vietnamese to spot him — and where he would achieve his status as the Vietnam War's deadliest sniper in missions that sound as if they were pulled from the pages of Marvel comics.

Inside one of the fridges, black body bags stacked to the side contain the remains of civilians who were methodically gunned down by Islamic State snipers behind a soft - drinks factory as they fled toward Iraqi security forces in June.

Though the practice had been in use since the Korean War, Carlos Hathcock made the use of the M2.50 - caliber machine gun as a long - range sniper weapon a normal practice.

Chips of cement hit him in the face as a sniper's bullets struck nearby.

What can one say in the face of such a cabinet of marvels as «the startled cherry of his cigarette» (a Nazi about to be killed by a sniper), or a tool that «lathed the wrinkled lake,» or (my favorite) a line about stars on a river that lie scattered «like jacks tossed on linoleum»?

A church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir at All Saints Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.20 pm.

On the 4th April, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by a sniper in Memphis, Tennessee, as he stood below the balcony with friends.

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No holding back from these soldiers as they deal with enemy sniper in most efficient way possible!

Aguero is a sniper of a striker but if he hasn't got his chief bullet loader David Silva in the City line up he's not nearly as effective.

On Thursday, April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated by a sniper as he stood while standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN.

It supplies the Israeli Defence Force with components which are used in sniper rifles and small arms, as well as parts for F - 16 combat aircraft and Apache helicopters.

These include unpiloted planes such as the MQ - 9 Reaper and its more famous predecessor, the MQ - 1 Predator, as well as ground vehicles such as the unmanned minitank Talon SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection System) and the multipurpose PackBot, which has been widely used to defuse roadside bombs in Iraq and which can also gather intelligence and detect snipers.

Law garnered both a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, further cementing his reputation as one of the more promising up - and - coming actors on either side of the ocean.After a turn as a Russian marksman facing off against a Nazi sniper in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Law returned to sci - fi with his role as love machine Gigolo Joe in Steven Spielberg's eagerly anticipated A.I.In addition to his acting commitments, Law kept busy with Natural Nylon, the production company he founded with Sadie Frost, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller.

I found even when we played our little game here in a realistic state and not as if we were playing gears of war we were still pretty much out gunned by sniper rifle spam and tali - ban that some how obtained weapons that they have a near 0 % chance of accessing anyway.

Perhaps best known to Americans as the lovelorn sniper in «Inglourious Basterds,» Daniel Brühl is a star in his native Germany.

The change in tone is abrupt and final, as the guys head into the fighting zone on foot and take on German snipers and «Flying Fritzie».

The police get as caught up in the contagion of riot fever just as much as the street - gangs did throwing fire bombs and sniper shooting from the roof - tops that started the whole thing.

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

After watching American Sniper, clinically directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American war history, you will think not only that war is hell, but that it is a cruel beast that devours its victims by inches and scars their families waiting fearfully across the water at home.

From the Studio: From director Clint Eastwood comes «American Sniper,» starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

Also in the mix is Willem Dafoe as an expert sniper who may or may not be on Wick's side.

These camera images are used to form a composite model, which is then used as the basis for the mute sniper Quiet in the game.

A sniper who has never allowed himself to think of his targets as humans becomes implicated in the life of one such target.

The premium content is dubbed Cloaked In Silence and, as we already knew, comes with new maps and lethal sniper Quiet as a new playable character.

Official Synopsis: From director Clint Eastwood comes American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.

Now he'll have a chance to shine as Linsky, a criminal who works for the villain to be played by Werner Herzog, as Jack Reacher (Cruise) tries to uncover the truth behind a strange set of sniper killings in which they're involved.

«Dunkirk» is gripping from its very opening moments, in which we see soldiers getting picked off by invisible snipers in the middle of the titular town as propaganda flyers shower from overhead, announcing to the British, French, Canadian, Belgian and Dutch troops that they are hopelessly penned in by the Germans.

The endeavor of dramatizing the events of something as horrific as the 2002 Washington D.C. killing spree of «The Beltway Snipers», John Allen Muhammed and his then 17 - year - old partner, Lee Malvo, requires a deft hand and a measure of control and restraint typically demonstrated only by the most seasoned of filmmakers, especially if you're going to examine the infamous killers as intimately as writer - director Alexandre Moors does in his debut feature, Blue Caprice.

Bradley Cooper stars as the deadliest sniper in American military history.

Adapted from the Chris Kyle autobiography of the same name, the film follows the story of Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a Navy SEAL known as the most lethal sniper in American history.

Starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, whose memoir the film is based upon and written by Jason Hall, American Sniper charts his four tours of duty in Iraq after September 11th where he became the most deadly sniper in military history.

Winning the Jury award at ActionFest for both best film and best director, A Lonely Place to Die shows that the title is as accurate in describing someone trapped alone in the open with nobody to help and sniper scoping out your back, buried in a coffin with only a bottle of water and an air - pipe, or lost in a crowded town of strangers.

Quiet can scout an outpost and kill any target in sight with her sniper rifle; D - Horse is great for covering large distances and D - Walker is very useful against vehicles and special enemies such as the Skulls.

In general, it is not a big deal and like for example I preferred the sniper rifle for 99 % of the game so upgrading other weapons didn't make it as one of my goals in the gamIn general, it is not a big deal and like for example I preferred the sniper rifle for 99 % of the game so upgrading other weapons didn't make it as one of my goals in the gamin the game.

The opening makes a brave statement as we follow what seems to be a snipers ritual in a bold move to have not one word of dialogue in those first 10 minutes.

The gripping build up certainly pulls you in through a sight target, only to shock as said sniper, taking what feels like an eternity, before unleashing pot - shots at innocent civilians in a seemingly random killing spree.

On that level, and in the intense portrayal of sniper duty while in active combat situations, the movie works as a standalone experience.

An oral history as a visual poem, the movie expands and collapses time to place the viewer alongside the victims of sniper Charles Whitman's UT Tower massacre on that hot August morning in 1966.»

Along the way he also earns a reputation as one of the most lethal snipers in history.

Lewis Milestone's memorable anti-war film concludes with a disillusioned German soldier (Lew Ayres) shot by a French sniper in the trenches as World War I was ending.

The player's character is inducted into the squad and introduced to their teammates as the game begins — the confident captain, the sassy sniper, the nervous newbie, the standoffish... uh, dickbag guy... and a few others who hop in and out of the party as the story allows.

Spencer decides then and there to hang up the sniper rifle for good and live a normal life as Jen's husband, but after three years of marital bliss, Spencer's past comes back to haunt him in the form of assassins all round who are out to collect a sizable bounty for killing the former killer.

The remaining SEAL unit members are team leader Michael P. «Murph» Murphy (played by Taylor Kitsch, bouncing back nicely from Battleship... and John Carter); sniper Matthew «Axe» Axelson (played by the always interesting Ben Foster); and communications specialist Danny Dietz (Emile Hirsch, suffering almost as nobly here as he did in Into the Wild).