sniper special ops

SNIPER: SPECIAL OPS (2016) Is Just The Kind Of Action Movie for People Who Hate Themselves

Sniper: Special Ops is the the action roller-coaster that teams up Van Damme and Seagal for the first and only time! But it’s not Jean Claude Van Damme, it’s actually Rob Van Dam from the WWE. And it’s not the Seagal who snaps necks and throws guys through walls, it’s actually the Seagal who sits in chairs and mumbles his lines. And the roller-coaster is actually one of those baby coasters for kids too short to ride real roller-coasters. Sniper: Special Ops isn’t so much a bad movie as it’s an insult to action movie fans. RVD and Seagal play soldiers in Afghanistan who have been sent in to retrieve a high value hostage from vaguely Taliban-like bad guys. Seagal is sitting in a perch with his spotter while RVD is on the ground awkwardly handling his M4 rifle. Naturally, all hell breaks loose and the guys on the ground have […]

Steven Seagal War Thriller, SNIPER: SPECIAL OPS, Lands A Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Director Fred Olen Ray’s career of well over 100 films is a litany of DTV action, horror and other genre titles now brings us his newest, Sniper: Special Ops. Actor Steven Seagal, seen in recent years taking to his business interests in Russia, is back on set here in the role of soldier on a mission that, surely enough, goes belly up. SYNOPSIS: A Special Ops military Force, led by expert sniper Sergeant Jake Chandler (Steven Seagal), 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 (Tim Abell) desperately tries to convince Major Jackson (Dale Dye) to let him go back and save the soldiers, but is ordered on a mission to retrieve a truckload of munitions […]