This movie was so horrifically bad that I just couldn't stop watching. I've seen car wrecks I could turn away from. Not this movie. Tim played the grizzled veteran sniper. Billy Zane played the paperpusher who somehow got sent into the field for a mission.
I didn't take notes, so you'll have to accept scattered fragments of what I remember.
There was actually some good scenes in the movie that seemed to mimic real life. Some mistakes were shown, such as Billy positioning himself badly and getting spotted. Tom and Billy got into a shouting match in the jungle and nearly got killed.
The enemy sniper carried an SVT (I think). It was ID'd as an AK by Tom, from the 'hammer recoil'. (WTF is hammer recoil? Geez!) Ghillie suits disappeared and magically reappeared, seemingly at random. Tom sat on top of a tall rock, with sky behind him, to glass the enemy sniper. They used their sniper rifles to clear a village, and they didn't even have the rifles shouldered.
The aforementioned shouting match occured because Billy didn't want to take orders from Tom, so Tom yelled back and slammed him against a tree, drawing the attention of hostile natives.
I'm no sniper, but IMO, this pair broke so many rules of sniping that they would have been killed five minutes into a real mission. They drew attention to themselves six ways to sunday, then Billy intentionally fired a spoiler shit, missing a bad guy in purpose.
If you want to find out where the masses get their disinformation, watch this movie. Otherwise, save yourself a sleepless, sobbing night.