Sniper Special Ops (2016)

Sniper Special Ops: Directed by Fred Olen Ray. With Steven Seagal, Rob Van Dam, Tim Abell, Charlene Amoia. When the mission to rescue a U.S. Congressman who has been kidnapped by the Taliban goes sideways, Army sniper and his partner are left behind. Now, they must survive in enemy territory and wait for their unit to come back for them.

“Iu0026#39;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 didnu0026#39;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 couldnu0026#39;t believe that anybody really makes movies this bad any more. I thought I must be tripping.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor 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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen 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. Heu0026#39;s behind enemy lines, there are potential snipers behind every wall, IUDs etc, and yes, I know heu0026#39;s hard and frightened of nothing, but wouldnu0026#39;t he have displayed just a little caution in walking around, instead of looking like heu0026#39;s strolling down to the neighborhood 7-11? I found myself yelling at the TV u0026quot;youu0026#39;re an actor! Why donu0026#39;t you ACT?u0026quot; Then I found out it was that famous and popular actor with the dozens of movies to his name, Steven Seagal. Wow.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThatu0026#39;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.”