"Marksman"? More like "Missed the Target By a Mile"
I wrote the draft for this after seeing the film, and before I read any of these reviews, so everything is genuine and from the heart, no intended copying of phrases. I was so miffed by the awfulness of it that I felt I had to commit to "paper". I was looking forward to this after previewing the only wham-bam tankfire action in the film in a local AV store. How disappointing it is to buy the DVD and see the rest of the grunge that surrounds this thin sliver of central action. Stilted and wooden performances from po-faced and chisel-chinned actors and actress, who genuinely seem to be enjoying their roles - NOT! Not surprising really, as the script and screenplay seem like they were written in a school project exercise (into plagiarism). The same old cliches you've seen a thousand times before in hero/military machine/incoming missile made-for-video B-flicks are just whizzed round in a blender. Why on earth there's the (literally) running theme of "Here's Wesley darting through shrubbery again", I'll never know. Must have fallen asleep at some point. Will the DVD player ever forgive me? Must redeem myself and put on Black Hawk Down or even Behind Enemy Lines once more. Sorry player.
What Is Up With Snipes???
You know, it is hard to believe that Snipes is the same guy who played in Blade (1&2), Murder At 1600, Money Train, White Men Can't Jump, Passenger 57, Major League, New Jack City, etc. What has happened to this guy?
Anyway, as for the movie, the story is pretty much a "been there done that" storyline. Bad guys in a foreign land want to trick the U.S. into bombing an active nuclear reactor, so they can blame the U.S for starting another war (hence disguising their involvement)... bla,bla,bla,bla. The acting was mediocre at best and there were a TON of military inconsistencies throughout the film. Being a veteran U.S. Marine I can assure you the use of flashlights during an important night time insertion is a NO-GO. I also had a problem with an Army dog flying Navy aircraft, which I really never understood why they threw that bone in there to begin with because the Army and Navy (also Airforce and Marines) have joint exercises, so they understand how each branch works (ever heard of Operation Team Spirit in Korea???).
If you plan on buying this flick, you will be sadly disappointed... if you gotta have it to complete your Snipes collection, wait until it reaches the dollar bin.
This movie Deserved 3.5 stars out of 5 but...
I Admit that it was a low budget movie and action scenes were extremely primitive. But I couldn't find anything wrong about Snipes. It was a very good movie and the story was reasonable and intresting. Remember that, many foreign adorable movies make with low budgets. comparing the quality of a movie with it's budget is absolutely wrong. I Also admit that this movie did not suit Snipes, but that doesn't mean Snipes is a falling star.
I think people who rated this movie with one or two stars, have expected Rambo out of it and got dissapointed. this was a memorable movie and the storyline was rather new. so the real and honest grade of it was 3.5 stars ot of 5. but I gave it 5 stars to increase its rating.
Do not, do not purchase this movie. I just finished seeing it for the first time recently, and I can say hands down that this was far and away the worst movie that Steven Seagal has ever made. Although I am not a prude, the language was disgusting with Mother F***** this and Mother F****** that every 10 seconds. The plot went nowhere and it was filled with unnecessary violence. Most of his old movies went somewhere, but this one was one violence, bad language filled scene after scene after scene. If you liked the old Steven Seagal movies, you won't like this one. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Steven Seagal DVD Release Date: Released the 13 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I'm going against popular opinion on this one compared with the other reviews placed here on amazon.com and because of that, I thought I'd throw my two cents worth in also. I've just watched this and I found it to be Snipes best effort since Blade II and I found it to be more enjoyable than the mess they made of Blade Trinity or Snipes dreadful last DTV movie, Unstoppable.
It's a thriller rather than an action movie more in the mold of Snipes past movies such as Drop Zone, Money Train or Murder At 1600. If you liked those movies then you should enjoy this. It's yet another DTV movie set in Eastern Europe, Romania this time. Personally I like these European locations, when done right modern day thrillers benefit allot from the realism of European locations for example Bourne... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Simon Fellows DVD Release Date: Released the 28 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You get two hostage crises for the price of one in Hostage, an overwrought but otherwise involving thriller grounded by Bruce Willis's solid lead performance. Making a dramatic pit-stop on his way to Die Hard 4, Willis plays a traumatized former Los Angeles hostage negotiator, now working as a nearly-divorced police chief in sleepy Ventura County, California. Willis suddenly finds himself amidst two potentially deadly stand-offs when a trio of hapless teenagers seize hostages in the fortress-like home of an accountant (Kevin Pollack) whose connections to organized crime result in Willis struggling to rescue his estranged wife and daughter, who are being held hostage by faceless thugs at an undisclosed location. Having directed two of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell video... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bruce Willis - Kevin Pollak - Serena Scott Thomas Director(s): Florent Emilio Siri DVD Release Date: Released the 21 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Action buffs will have a fine time with the spray of bullets, shattering glass, and pyrotechnic silliness that makes up the bulk of Assault on Precinct 13. Updated from the little-known cops-and-robbers classic John Carpenter made in 1976 (two years before he made his name with Halloween), this high-concept thriller is mostly a lowbrow kill-fest, and is very happy with itself for being so efficient in both categories. A decrepit police station on its last night before retirement--New Year's Eve, no less--plays unexpected home to a gang of criminals who become snowbound in the basement lockup. Another mysterious gang of people who stealthily gather in the blizzard outside want one of the particularly nasty criminals (Laurence Fishburne) dead, and they'll take the rest of the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Laurence Fishburne - Ethan Hawke Director(s): Jean-François Richet DVD Release Date: Released the 10 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It took more than 25 years for another Clive Cussler novel to come to the screen after the financial and critical disaster of Raise the Titanic. Based on Cussler's oddly landlocked adventure, Sahara finds the author's hero, Dirk Pitt (Matthew McConaughey)--a sort of all-American, high seas variation of James Bond--in Africa looking for a Confederate ironclad ship that impossibly might have ended up there. Soon he and his faithful sidekick Al Giordino (Steve Zahn) are lost in another adventure, discovering a deadly contaminate being tracked by a beautiful doctor (Penelope Cruz). The results are checkered: there's no one outstanding sequence, but the action is enjoyably varied, while the thrills are mild yet not bombastic or gratuitous. The cast are all adept in their roles,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Penélope Cruz - Matthew McConaughey Director(s): Breck Eisner DVD Release Date: Released the 30 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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