The Marksman (2005) (V)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Marcus Adams

Writers (WGA):

Travis Spangler (story) &
Tyler Spangler (story) ...

Release Date:

12 October 2005 (Argentina)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

Tagline:

The fate of two nations rests in his hands.

Plot:

Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them. |

Plot Keywords:

Neck Breaking Scene | Marksman | Timebomb | Helicopter | Sniper

Cast

Wesley Snipes	...	Painter
Emma Samms	...	Amanda Jacks
William Hope	...	Johnathan Tensor
Anthony Warren	...	Capt. Naish
Peter Youngblood Hills	...	Hargreaves
Ryan McCluskey	...	Rodgers
Warren Derosa	...	Orin
Christiaan Haig	...	Hightop
Dan Badarau	...	Gen. Egor Zaysan (as Dan Badaru)
Serge Soric	...	Andrey Flintov
Gelu Nitu	...	Minister Viktor Ivanov
Matt Salinger	...	General Parent (as Matthew Salinger)
John Guerrasio	...	Secretary Cummings
Ian Ashpitel	...	Major Devro
Peter Swander	...	Sergeant Hill (as Peter Bradley Swander)

Also Known As:

Nuclear Target (Europe: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:MA | UK:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:16 | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 | New Zealand:R16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Castel Film Studios, Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment

Trivia:

An entire dialog sequence was lifted directly from Fred Olen Ray's _Active Stealth (1999)_ when the film came in under time.

Goofs:

Factual errors: At least some of the aboveground scenes at the "nuclear power plant" were actually filmed at an abandoned sewage treatment works. Trickling filters, sedimentation basins, digesters, and other structures associated only with sewage treatment plants are plainly visible in the scenes.

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Painter: Are your nerves shaking?... that means your instincts are turned on.

Movie Connections:

Edited from Navy Seals (1990)

Soundtrack:

Public Eye

Wesley, Wesley your so much better then this

The plot was so implausible, the movie was reminiscent of bad American ethnocentric military might movies of the Eighties. The acting was atrocious. Wesley Snipes who has put out some reasonably decent movies looked like he wished he was somewhere else for most of the movie.

Low budget movies can be forgiven for archaic special effects but not for replaying the exact same bad special effects repeatedly regardless of context for such insignificant details as night/day and appropriate camera angles.

The action scenes were stilted, the old simplistic formula of dozens of bad guys with machines guns can't hit the side of a barn while they are standing in it while the good guys naturally have a one shot one kill habit.

Red neck NRA card carrying American patriots will probably feel some kind of in-the-pants-rise for this movie, everyone else, do yourself a favour and look elsewhere for your cinematic escapism.

Bad. Bad. Bad.