Sniper: Special Ops

I never thought I see the day that Fred Olen Ray would team up with Steven Seagal. That is a pairing I could not have imagined.
The movie feels more like Seagal ask Ray to make the movie for him despite Ray wearing the triple threat hat of writer, director and producer.
Seagal looks less fat in this movie than he usually has been looking. Wonder if Ray made him lose weight for the role. At first I thought some air brushing was being done on the poster, but even in the film he looks a few pounds less. Maybe military camouflage slims down the body, but there was a part in the flick where Seagal had to hold his gut before sitting down.

Anyway, Sniper is a complex war movie version and action movie. Just a lot of talking but it’s a decent story. Seagal plays the leader of a Special Oops team that gets ambushed while on a rescue mission. Caught behind enemy lines, he has to wait for his team to come and get him out, but the situation is complicated.

If you can’t tell for the synopsis it is one of those movies where they pay Seagal a lot of money to do a weeks worth of work so that his name can appear before the title of  the film even though 3rd billing Tim Abel seems to be the real protagonist lead in the film, even over second billing Rob Van Dam who’s wrestling career would make him a big draw following Seagal.

What’s bad is they literally paid Seagal a fortune just to sit down and look cool pointing a snipper rifle, then he tries to say something cool with his smooth scratchy voice that makes him sound bad ass (but it doesn’t)