Sniper Special Ops

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.

I like alot of Seagal DTV flicks & consider some of them "Gems" like his Driven to Kill,Pistol Whipped,A Dangerous Man & Belly of the Beast. Unfortunately as we all know, with some decent one's we also get the absolute Trash ones like: Attack Force,A Good Man,Shadow Man,Black Dawn & Sniper.

We all know Seagal isn't a good actor but we watch him for the old school brutal vigilante Justice he does to the scum of the world, that's his appeal as we grew up watching him & just enjoy watching his beat the crap outta bad guys. Here in this pile of poop, Seagal is a boring Sniper that sits around & it's just a weird & boring Iraq based war drama. Weird that Seagal was in this & even weirder that he produced it? Like i said i do enjoy alot of Seagal's DTV output but this one was boring & Seagal was a side character & i turned it off halfway through. Just a crappy one of his huge output

Yet another non-action movie featuring fat Seagal in a minor role.

After a decent opening scene, things go flat for almost the entire remaining runtime where the plot involves a group of soldiers and an annoying reporter trying to rescue Steven Seagal and his sweaty wounded friend. As other reviews mention, Seagal basically sits in a chair for most of his brief runtime. The soldier group cast is believable and likable, but the endless scenes of them talking or arguing with the reporter get stale.

Sleaze director Fred Olen Ray has almost exclusively done quickie lifetime Christmas movies in the past years and seemingly decided to shoot this on a desert movie ranch during a free week.

Featuring only three shootout scenes and a lot of talking, Sniper: Special Ops is doomed to simply be a slot-filler on daytime tv. Only for the die hard Seagal fans (do any really exist?!)

The first scene looked quite promising, but after that, It's so bad it's horrible.

The sniper rifle is only used during this first scene, after that Seagal use an automatic rifle and he doesn't even bother to aim ; he sprays bullets at random in a prerecorded sequence that is used again and again.

Actually, Seagal doesn't do much ; he babysits his comrade from a safe place, for the major part of the movie, while another lame movie is playing with Rob Vandamme and an annoying spoilt journalist who can do it all.

Sniper:Special ops, is a low cost and boring movie that use a guest star to sell copies, but don't ask too much from them.

Top billed Seagal who is so fat, he can only sit and stand, while his words are meant to sound tough only come across as out of breath from doing nothing. Movie is slow paced with lots of gunfire.