Name of a movie featuring a sniper

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I’m trying to remember a movie I saw sometime between 1985-2000. I don’t remember much about it, but it had one very memorable scene. The main character, who is an ex-military sniper, gets ticked off with the obnoxious, loud drug dealers living in the apartment next to his, so he takes his rifle and shoots one of the guys in the head, from about 2 miles away. You see the scene from the perspective of the guy’s roommate, who is talking to him across a table when his head suddenly explodes. The freaked-out roommate describes it to the police, and the cop looks out the window and sees the mountain in the distance, and knows who they are looking for.

Any ideas?

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Sniper?

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Did you read the OP?

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Do you understand that sometimes accuracy has to take a backseat to humor?

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Been ages and ages since I’ve seen it, but could it be The Professional?

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As an incidental note, a two-mile kill is about half a mile longer than the world record, so he must have been really pissed off.

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I don’t remember the 2 mile hit in this movie. I may be wrong.

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Like I said, long time since I’ve seen it. I have a vague recollection of him having some annoying neighbors or something, that’s all.

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He did not have a roommate, he had a waif he took in (Natalie Portman), and she did not turn on him. He was not a sniper per se, just a hit man.

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I haven’t seen the movie I think For You is talking about, just read references to it, but some part of my brain is kicking up either “Leon” or “The Professional” as the title for FY’s reference.

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I don’t think Leon killed anyone with the sniper rifle. He was just showing her. The farther away you must be, the less professional you are. He fired it at a politician running in the park, hitting him with some sort of fake round.

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It wasn’t The Professional or Sniper or Leon.
But, thanks for the suggestions so far.

Oh… I’m pretty sure it was set in LA.

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Assassins?

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No, that’s not it.

I’m pretty sure the film I’m thinking of didn’t have any big-name stars. Maybe some B-listers. At least, no one I remember.

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I just did a quick search on IMDB for movies about snipers.

I found thisin the search results. Sounds like a possible match.
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A murder witness can’t convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, realizes he is the sniper’s next victim. *

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The best guess I can come up with is Renegade Force.

Details here: Renegade Force (1998) - IMDb

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No, that’s not it.
It’s also from 1974, which is much too old.

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I read the capsule summary, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t it either, although the timeframe is right.

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The answer is Le cercle rouge [The Red Circle] by Melville. It always has been.

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I guess I’ll have to watch it and see.
Maybe there’s no need to watch anything else…