Sniper: Special Ops

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?!)

Sensei Segeal why are you still trying to do movies? I mean your character has never changed one bit in the last 35 years. Its the same thing every time... please stop. please stop making this crap. Its embarrassing. Go back to the bayou and take your fake accent with you. You probably are a much better cop than you are at acting. Movie was so bad it doesnt even quality to be put on VHS cassette.

Segal and a gang of old hairy special ops get caught in Taliban fight an dfight and fight and then report to a colonel old enough to have fought at gettysburg! And a girl with baby who is daughter of Taliban cheif and more fighting and more moe fighting and Seagal mumbles hi sway through it all and men are dying left and right and up and down and... Oh dear this really is a boring film. I stayed watching to end because my neighbours had a party and I couldn't go to bed.

Yet another in a long succession of horrible straight-to-video movies by Seagal of late. At least there were no CGI bullet holes in this one. What I don't understand is why producers can't hire a decent military consultant when shooting a war movie. Jeff Bosley (Doc) is a Green Beret, how he didn't die laughing during the filming is beyond me. Firearm handling is absolutely ridiculous, Rob Van Dam clearly has never fired a long gun before in his life. Charlene Amoia, who claims to be an "expert marksman" holds a pistol like it's a personal massager (wink-wink).

You see an assortment of optics on the team's rifles (ACOG, Aimpoint, Eotech) but the funniest is a tiny RDS on Segal's rifle that has superimposed hash marks when looking through it in Seagal's first- person view. Absurd.

Overall, horrible low-budget B-flick with bad story, horrible acting and a huge number of blunders. Save yourself some time and DO NOT watch it.

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.