'The Contractor' (2007) - 'Josef Rusnak'

Rising DTV star Wesley Snipes returns once again as a dead-eyed, taciturn sniper, suggesting the imminent possibility of a franchise, 'Taciturn Sniper 2 : acclimated to the deadly double cross', shoot it in in Romania/Slovenia for the price of Seagal's picnic hamper and we're in business! Boom! After a nicely mounted, rooftop assassination by Snipes of some faceless oligarch nutjob, 'The Contractor' all too rapidly becomes a cliche-riddled miasma of trite dialogue, rampant plagiarism, poorly edited action and some weird, incongruous use of Bulgaria (Sofia) not looking anything like London at all, to whit, gnarly black op James (Snipes) exits his safe house in Elephant and Castle and arrives magically in sun-stroked Bulgaria, for a moment I thought I was watching an especially adventurous episode of Dr. Who!
This is just shoddy, unlovely stuff, some bad films can be enormous fun, while others simply enervate, and it's such an egregious waste of a top flight cast; Snipes, Headey, Dance and an especially flaccid turn by the usually entertaining Ralph Brown make this lacklustre, wholly action-less film a dull, unwatchable DVD dud. Keoni Waxman, Ernie Barbarash, Isaac Florantine, John Hyams, these cats know how to shoot a low budget action movie, as one blink and you'll miss it Snipes fight scene does not an action movie make.