He walked away from the crosshairs. But they never left him
The Gunman (2025) marks the gritty return of Sean Penn’s elite sniper, Jim Terrier, in a neo-noir thriller that goes deeper into the politics of blood, betrayal, and redemption. Set years after the events of the 2015 original, this sequel brings a sharper edge, a deadlier conspiracy, and a man trying to outshoot both his enemies and his past.
Terrier has disappeared from the grid, living off the coast of Portugal in self-imposed exile—his hands still steady, but his mind unraveling from trauma and regret. But when a journalist exposing secret arms deals tied to a shadow U.N. faction is assassinated using Terrier’s signature method, the hunter becomes the hunted once again. Framed for a crime he didn’t commit—and pulled back into a world he swore off—Jim must follow a trail of bullets through Africa, Europe, and the halls of global power.
At the center of it all is a mysterious arms broker known only as “Basilisk,” whose reach spans warlords, diplomats, and private militias. As Terrier digs deeper, the line between assassin and activist blurs. And in the crosshairs: a young girl who reminds him too much of the life he never had.
Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken, Peppermint), The Gunman (2025) blends stripped-down espionage with brutal hand-to-hand combat and sniper realism. This is not a superhero spy movie—it’s a hard-hitting, morally complex story of a man whose only way forward is through the worst of his past.
Because the problem with ghosts isn’t that they haunt you.
It’s that they aim back.