SYPNOSIS

Snipers is a trio of tales set in recession-era Kuala Lumpur. The protagonists are an ex-military sniper-turned-hitman, a retrenched middle-class Chinese man and a debt-ridden mamak restaurant owner whose lives are forever altered through contact with a prototype suppressed sniping rifle. Linking the tales is the mysterious gunman (Paul Lau) who owns the deadly rifle.

The hitman, Ah Loong (Tan Eng Heng) arrives in KL and collects the rifle for his latest hit. The gunman sets him up in an empty flat where he has to wait for further orders and his victim. There Ah Loong meets Ah Ling (Sue Ann Gooi), who owns the red bean soup stall across the flats. He starts to communicate with her after years in the wilderness. He finds out that her boyfriend Ah Wai (Chew Kin Wah) is in some sort of trouble with the local thugs. Finally Ah Loong receives his order and finds out that his target is Ah Wai. Now he has to decide whether to pull the hit like he used to or refuse to accept the job in order to set himself free from his violent past.

The second story starts off with Steve Tan (Pang Khee Teik), who is about to get retrenched. Knowing his fate in the company he starts to isolate himself from his wife, Linda (Merissa Teh) and his father (Kee Thuan Chye). Then one day he finds the rifle that was abandoned by Ah Loong (they're living in the same block of flats). Steve brings the rifle back and his life starts to change, since he can now kill the people he doesn't like. Slowly Steve suspects that his wife is having affair with her colleague. He marks her as his next target …

Third story brings us to Ismail (Huzir Sulaiman), a debt-ridden restaurant owner in Sri Hartamas. He is forced by local thug Mr. Hisham (Ramzani Ramli) to settle his debt in a short period of time or lose his restaurant. Ismail has no choice but to ask his estranged elder brother, Karim (Sharaad Kuttan) for help, but is refused. Seeing that Ismail can’t settle the debt in time, Mr. Hisham orders him to pull a hit for him instead. With no more options, Ismail takes the job and kills an independent labour activist (Andre D' Cruz). But soon after the killing, Ismail realises he can do more with the rifle...