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Tim Roth’s New Action Thriller Turns the Australian Countryside Into a Hunting Ground in First Look

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The Australian countryside is about to become a hunting ground. Next week marks the arrival of one of the most tense, under-the-radar action thrillers of the year on digital and VOD, Seven Snipers, pitting Man on Fire star Radha Mitchell against Pulp Fiction alum Tim Roth in a fierce battle of wits, patience, and survival. The former plays a retired elite sniper who has set her rifle down in favor of a quiet life on a ranch with her daughter, until the latter re-enters the picture, playing a warlord from her past with a score to settle. Ahead of its arrival in the U.S., we’re thrilled to include this intense showdown as part of Collider’s Exclusive Summer Preview series, and we can share a new image hinting at the previous connection the two once shared.

In our exclusive still, The Dragon (Roth) isn’t trying to kill Kris Hendricks (Mitchell), but is instead adjusting her headband as if they’re on the same side. However, the look on the veteran sniper’s face and the presence of another armed soldier suggest this isn’t voluntary. Hendricks was once the warlord’s captive and may have even been forced to do some of his dirty work, at least until something happened long ago that freed her from his grasp. Now, years later, she appears to have played into his hands once again, though this time, she’s not about to go down without a fight. Determined to save her daughter, she’ll do anything to stop The Dragon’s quest for revenge dead in its tracks.

Fortunately for Hendricks, she’s not alone in this fight. As the title Seven Snipers implies, she was once part of an entire team of legendary ex-military marksmen, who all show up to save one of their own when she makes the call. The Dragon has a ruthless reputation for a reason, though. It’ll take all the skills Hendricks has learned during her time in the service to vanquish the ghosts of her violent past for good. At its beating heart is the relationship of a mother trying to protect her daughter from that violence, only for them both to have to confront it head-on.

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Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

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Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

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Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

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Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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‘Seven Snipers’ Brings in Some Elite Names for Its Killer Squad

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Among the elite team members surrounding Mitchell in Seven Snipers is Ioan Gruffudd, best known as the former leader of the Fantastic Four, and True Blood star Ryan Kwanten, alongside Charles Cottier, Damien Ryan, and Bianca Wallace. The film hails from Sandra Sciberras with a script by Andrew O’Keefe, who previously helmed an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky‘s landmark novel Crime & Punishment in 2015. It marks the debut production of Monster Pictures Studios, coming out of an ongoing partnership between the banner and Head Gear Films with Grant Hardie, Ian Kirk, and Phil Hunt producing. Reviews so far have been positive, praising the film as a straightforward yet engaging actioner that relishes in the thrill of the hunt.

Seven Snipers will arrive on digital and VOD platforms on June 5. Check out our exclusive image above and stay tuned here at Collider throughout the rest of the week for more new looks at upcoming films from our summer preview series.

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