The Marksman (2005)

One of my all time favorites.

Best movie ever!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I watched this film of an evening and had forgotten about it the next morning. Cookie cutter is the phrase I'm looking for, because this straight-to-video nonsense is predictable in every way and holds no character of its own. Now, I'm not too worried about the lacklustre story - action films don't NEED great stories, plenty do without - but the attempted flashy direction is really at fault here. Marcus Adams handled the dull demonic horror outing LONG TIME DEAD but he's certainly not cut out for the action genre.Wesley Snipes is the star - Seagal or Van Damme could equally have played the part - and nobody bothers giving him a character, so he just wanders around and shoots bad guys in various badly-directed and poorly-edited clips. There's the usual round of betrayal and heroism, but the whole cast is extraneous, the villains caricatures and originality nowhere to be found. It's neither exciting nor thrilling, and the presence of William Hope (ALIENS) only serves to remind the viewer of what a decent action film should look like.

Well the problem with this movie is there is obvious flaws that are just too obvious for the general public.First my DVD box said it had multiple languages and subtitles, when it had only English with no subtitles... I tough at first they could had mix the DVDs but it seem i was not the only one. So i watched it in English and could experience the awful dubbing of some of the rangers army team(especially the captain). This alone make it seem like awful acting.Wesley is really soft spoken, maybe a bit too much for your obvious action movie fan... The gun sounds also seem a bit off, they don't have that noisy noises(even when silencers) that we are used to hear in movies.Hand to hand combat for what there is seem extremely cheap and bad too(but its very limited to only a few scenes) The plot is like the general 90s action movie type, i will not get into detail but i will say its very simple, and the villains are very under used all movie long.But despise all of these flaws, as an action movie, without being "very good", it ain't as horrible as some people wanted it to be. The production just seem too cheap, thats the main problem, cause the rest, its done decently for an action movie with gunfights, an OK story, and a military theme. In any case i will never say it was a good action movie, but its certainly not as bad as some people want to put it...

Wesley Snipes stars as Painter,a mercenary sent to save hostages and destroy a nuclear missile that Russian terrorists have gotten their hands on, of course while there Painter realizes there is a conspiracy that goes all the way to the US Government. The Marksman has a cool title, indeed for an action flick there is no title that sounds cooler than "The Marksman" of course my anticipation was that of an assassin movie and not one of those mercenary learns he was double crossed horse manure. That is an accurate description because The Marksman is horse manure. It's awful. One of the worst things about The Marksman is that the action doesn't come until an hour into things and by then I was falling asleep. The Marksman is one of the dullest movies i've ever seen and I for one cannot believe how far Snipes has fallen.1/2* out of 4-(Awful)

Poor cinematography, poor soundtrack, in fact just plain poor all round. The only condition under which this movie should be watched is if you're completely plastered, but still having trouble getting to sleep... this film will do the trick.The use of gadgets and gizmo's is yet another aspect of this movie which has been badly mistreated, just there to fill space in between boring action sequences. In fact in that respect they are much like this paragraph, of no real use but still required by the movie industry so the back cover doesn't give a duration of 10 min which is really all the plot was good for.