Sniper: Special Ops (2016)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Good concept, poorly executed.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

What a let down of a movie. Why it's called "Sniper Special OPs" really is beyond me. When a movie has 'Sniper' in its title, it really should be about a sniper who does his job. Firing a total of 2 shots from a sniper rifle does not fit that bill. Just to top it off actors are overweight and to old to be classed as a crack team as 'Special Ops' Never have I ever seen a military team with overweight, bearded men with long hair. Not only did the writers and director lose the plot but so did I. Waiting to see Steven Seagal in action but he was all talk and no action. Well he hardly even spoke, just sat on a chair and stared out a window. Could have been a good movie with a much better director and a younger fitter cast.

I've never knowingly watched a Steven Seagal movie before and I came into this one 5-10 mins after the start on late-night TV, so I didn't recognize him in the dark glasses and - as somebody else has pointed out here - expanded waistline. I quickly became mesmerized by it, simply because I couldn't believe that anybody really makes movies this bad any more. I thought I must be tripping.For a start off, as we all know, according to that Paul Hardcastle song, the average age of the combat soldier in Vietnam was 19. According to Sniper: Special Ops, the average age of the combat soldier in Afghanistan appears to be about 59. The commanding officer in particular, played by actor Dale Dye who is in his 70s, looked monstrously miscast.Then the guy in the dark glasses - presumably the sniper of the title and as I later discovered, played by Seagal - has to get up and get some water. He's behind enemy lines, there are potential snipers behind every wall, IUDs etc, and yes, I know he's hard and frightened of nothing, but wouldn't he have displayed just a little caution in walking around, instead of looking like he's strolling down to the neighborhood 7-11? I found myself yelling at the TV "you're an actor! Why don't you ACT?" Then I found out it was that famous and popular actor with the dozens of movies to his name, Steven Seagal. Wow.That's 84 minutes of my life I will never get back. Though I must admit I did get a bit of a giggle out of it.

Another Seagal movie, although he is hardly in this time. I am a big fan of Seagals, but the movie really belonged to Tim Abell, who is a great bad ass. It all feels realistic and down to earth, and, although Seagal has no fight scenes, he does get to kill a couple of terrorists. It is quite short and to the point, and is not graphic with its violence, which can be a pro or con. Seagal sits around a lot, and stays behind enemy lines to help an injured man, while the other team tries to get the military to help them. There is a relatively large body count, and Seagal does get quite a few. Van Dam is OK, but is sometimes wooden. He will be a great action star soon hopefully. Seagal has heaps of movies coming up, so that's why he is not in this much. Code of Honor, and the Asian Connection are also movies of Seagals that came out near this time. Killing Salazar is also upcoming, and I wonder when it will be released in the US and Au. Sniper Special Ops is an OK entertaining movie.

Remember when Seagal used to make films where he appeared to be pro-active and actually put some effort into his fight scenes and running scenes?Where you one of those people who just yearned for a Seagal film where he would be sitting down for 90% of his screen time' and be wearing sunglasses for 99% of his screen time?Well after 28 years of appearing in films, here's the one you've been waiting for.....And it's not that Van Damme either.....When the mission to rescue a U.S. Congressman who has been kidnapped by the Taliban goes sideways, Army sniper Jake Chandler and his injured partner are left behind. Now, on their own, they must survive in enemy territory and wait for their unit to come back for them........Terrible is one word to describe this film, others would be using obscene language, so I'm not going to go down that route. The film is split into two different stories, one involving a spoilt little rich girl who wants in on the action, whilst the grizzled soldiers are like 'no way....no way.....no way........go on then'.The other is involving (ha ha involving) Seagal and a sweaty partner who cannot walk just sitting in a room. He sweaty partner is a walking (pun intended) cliché, talking about being back home and blah blah blah, and Seagal sits there, in his sunglasses saying nothing.And there is literally one point where he gets up and goes to the shop.This is a real new low for Seagal, he is once again dubbed, he's hardly in any shots with other people in the film, and he could've been using a double half the time as his face is that obscure.But it's worth watching for the sheer audacity of a once reputable name in Hollywood doing something so lazy, so meaningless, and so offensive toward his loyal fan base.He knows his fans will see this no matter what, and he's just sitting there, and I for one, felt unhealthy just looking at the man.Absolute trash from beginning to end....