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Wesley Snipes (Blade Trilogy) is armed and extremely dangerous in THE MARKSMAN, an explosive action-adventure thriller where nothing is what it seems. With Russia on the brink of nuclear annihilation, there’s only one man who can save it: The Marksman (Snipes). An elite U.S. Special Forces operative, he’s been ordered to take out a Chechen nuclear power plant before terrorists set off a live reactor. Infiltrating the heavily-guarded facility, The Marksman indicates the target for an American \missile strike and makes his escape. But when he discovers it’s the missiles and not the terrorists that’ll ignite the device, The Marksman realizes he’s been set up. And so begins a race against time as he attempts to disarm a target whose detonation will trigger the death of thousands and topple two world powers.
Just watching Wesley Snipes doing his martial antics already made my day! - Reviewed on 2007-10-18
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During recent weekends, I had spent some leisure time to watch three action movies on cable television.
The three movies shared a common thread: the principal character was more or less a lone wolf operative, with military background; trained in covert operations & skilled in weaponry.
Although they did not have the plot intensity or complexity when compared with any of the recent 'Bourne' or even 'Bond' movies, they were generally entertaining.
For me, entertainment comes first when I watch a movie.
The first one was 'Target'.
The second was 'Avenger'.
The third was 'Marksman', starring my favourite action hero, Wesley Snipes.
I had watched many of Wesley Snipes' action movies: '7 Seconds', the 'Blade' trilogy, 'Art of War', 'US Marshalls', 'Drop Zone', 'Money Train', 'Demolition Man', 'The Detonator', 'Murder @1600', 'Rising Sun', 'Passenger 57' & 'Unstoppable'.
One of the reasons I like to watch him in action movies is because he is trained as a martial artist in real life.
In 'Marksman', he played an army ranger with the code name: Painter. His job was to mark out targets on the ground in preparation for directed missile strikes.
A group of Chechen rebels had taken over a supposedly decommissioned nuclear plant inside Russia. Together with a team of army rangers, his job was to go in & rescue the scientists. It was meant to be a simple extraction job. However, it turned out that there was a complex agenda behind the rescue & the mission was unexpectedly compromised.
The rescue helicopter was blown up. A few rangers were killed on board. The remaining rangers were captured on the ground by the Chechen rebels, with the exception of Painter & another ranger, who managed to escape.
Painter realised that the original mission would have sparked off an inadvertent thermonuclear war between Russia & the United States.
The remaining segment of the movie showed how Painter, using his instincts, outsmarted & outmanoeuvred the rebels to find out the truth & also to rescue their captured buddies.
The high-octane, explosive action sequences were beautifully choreographed, as Painter made a crafty manoeuvre to elude the well-armed rebels in one particular scene, & together with the other escaped ranger, mounted a daring rescue of their captured buddies near the nuclear plant, in another scene.
The final ending sequence was also good as well as gripping, as Painter rushed, under extreme time pressures, to remark the target for a directed missile strike.
There were some aspects of the story that intrigued me: it was hard to imagine that Russia would allow army rangers from the United States to operate inside their territory, not discounting the fact that US carrier-based aircrafts had also to navigate Russian air space to reach their targets.
Nevertheless, for me, I had really enjoyed watching this action movie. Just watching Wesley Snipes doing his martial antics already made my day!
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