Simply Perfect

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A Special Ops Military Force, led by Sergeant Vic Mosby (Tim Abell) with an expert sniper Sergeant Jake Chandler (Steven Seagal) as "Over Watch" during a special mission are sent to a remote Afghan village to extract an American Congressman being held by the Taliban. The rescue mission is a success, but Jake, separated after a firefight with the enemy, stays behind to help an injured soldier. Sergeant Vic Mosby desperately tries to convince Lieutenant Colonel Jackson (Dale Dye) to let him go back and save the soldiers, but is ordered on a mission to retrieve a truckload of munitions which could be vital for the military base. In direct violation of orders, Vic and his Special Ops Team decide to head back to the village to rescue the stranded soldiers. Outnumbered and out gunned, Vic and his men engage in a massive shootout against the enemy, while Jake uses his expert skills to help save them all from certain death. Sniper: Special Ops is your kind of typical dumb action movie that is straight to DVD and although i won't lie the movie did have some decent war action sequences here and there it also had some wooden acting from Seagal who isn't the leading star by the way and i still don't understand why he is in the Poster and there's also some pretty bad effects here and there mostly in the big finale. But overall if you like this kind of dumb flicks you might actually find some enjoyment in this. (4.5/10)

.... he waddles like a duck through the movie pretending to be a special forces sniper. Just bad. Just as bad is the reporter who turns out to be a super annoying person with no depth in character. You can tell this movie was low a budget production. Cheap and quick. Boring dialogues, flat characters. $8 million budget? No kidding. Any film school student would have produced a movie 10x better with half the budget. Segal should retire for good and move to Siberia. I wonder why Segal makes movies of this kind. I guess he must be broke and needs the money. He needs a better personal wealth manager. I had huge respect for Segal 20 years ago and followed all his movies, now he's losing it. Sad.

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.

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.