Sunday, March 7, 2021

'The Marksman' (2005) - Marcus Adams.

Slick night stalking sequence gives us an intimate gander into the super soldier capabilities of durable, cat-footed, Painter (Wesley Snipes) who must undertake a desperate mission to free hostages held by the zealous Chechen rebel leader, Zaysan (Dan Badaru) who has secured them in a decommissioned nuclear bunker, the grim-faced despot plans to bring back online in order to detonate with devastatingly catastrophic results!
 

When things inevitably play out differently than planned, Painter and his remaining team must repel the bellicose Chechen rebels, which means plentiful pyro, scads of sexy slo-mo incandescent dives, a staccato salvo of military double-talk, daredevil dogfights, glum unshaven faces, and Snipes tearing manfully around atmospherically desolated industrial locations, taking out bad guy's like a B-Action boss! While this is all undeniably low brow, Chuck Norris-less Gung-ho bobbinz there's a frequently zesty, Gung-ho savour to 'The Marksman' that I found enormously satisfying!

The Marksman was ably produced by B-movie icon, Andrew Stevens and stars the adorable munchkin-faced Emma Samms, but bizarrely, unforgivably, they dubbed the estimable Steven's voice, which just simply isn't done, old boy! Additional iconic B-Movie alumni includes screenwriter, J.S Cordone who so splendidly directed cult 80s dream demon slasher nightmare 'The Slasher', and the darkly handsome, charismatic Romanian character actor, Dan Badaru also starred in Seagal DTV classic 'Born to Raise Hell'. Right on! 

'Durable, cat-footed super soldier Snipes single handedly saves the free world from catastrophic nuclear devastation!' - Weirdlingwolf.

 



 




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