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Disappointment for a huge fan!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

What a let down of a movie. Why it's called "Sniper Special OPs" really is beyond me. When a movie has 'Sniper' in its title, it really should be about a sniper who does his job. Firing a total of 2 shots from a sniper rifle does not fit that bill. Just to top it off actors are overweight and to old to be classed as a crack team as 'Special Ops' Never have I ever seen a military team with overweight, bearded men with long hair. Not only did the writers and director lose the plot but so did I. Waiting to see Steven Seagal in action but he was all talk and no action. Well he hardly even spoke, just sat on a chair and stared out a window. Could have been a good movie with a much better director and a younger fitter cast.

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)

Does anybody know how hard it is to write 10 lines of text about a movie that is so bad that it isn't even funny anymore? Does anybody know how painful it is to watch such a crap show? Yup, I suffered thru it, so you don't have to. Long story short: Steven Seagal plays a US Army Sergeant. A 64 year old US Army Sergeant! A 64 year old Sniper! You gotta be kidding me. What kind of a joke is this? US Army goes Nursing Home? The movie plot itself is depicted pretty accurate with the words: utter crap. The movies story is the same inconsistent drivel seen in numerous other C-Pictures, boring, predictable and so cheaply made it hurts. In the Trivia section someone wrote that they made the movie in 20 days, not that it would make me wonder. Just another Steven Seadull gem!

So, its called Sniper. Sniper is in the title. So, is it a little too much to ask to see a sniper sniping? One would think not. However, this is a Steven Seagal flick, so that means anything goes. As long as Seagal gets to 1. Play it "cool" (check), 2. Have minimal dialogue and deliver it in a low, slow, mumbling voice (check), and 3. Wear sunglasses for 99.99% of his screen time (check). What really gets me is that I was pumped to see some sniper shots. You know, head shots where people's skulls are obliterated by the expert marksmanship of the sniper. And what do we get? Three, yes count 'em, 3 sniper shots. And one of them the target was a whiskey flask, not a person. I'm not kidding. The rest of the movie drags on with some lame storyline of special ops guys going to perform automotive maintenance on a broken down supply truck, only to find the head taliban raghead's daughter and infant child trying to flee, thus throwing a monkey wrench in what would have been an easy operation. OK, so firefights ensue, an expendible soldier gets a bullet in the brains, dozens of taliban clowns are mowed down by the superior firepower and marksmanship of the American soldiers. Scene cuts to Seagal every 15 minutes or so for a 2 minute pontification by Steven, who's trying to save his sniper/spotter squad member whose been paralyzed by a bullet to the spine, well at least according to Dr. Seagal. See, not only is he a sniper, but he's such a seasoned vet that he's also an expert medic and qualified to make battlefield diagnoses.So, anyhow, the beta-dog member of the squad (since Seagal is the alpha dog, presumably) pulls into town and confronts the head taliban raghead but tricks him thanks to the savvy female war correspondent whose been a real thorn in his side for the entire movie up until now when he can use her for the old switcheroo. The baby is really a bomb dressed up as an infant and the guy gets blown to smithereens. A few more bullets fly and then Seagal and the paralyzed wounded vet get rescued. Seagal then takes off his sunglasses at the end of the movie. Ooh-Rah!