The Marksman

Video
2005
12
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

4.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

Home Video Trailer from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Action Adventure Thriller

With Russia on the brink of nuclear annihilation, there's only one man who can save it: an elite U.S. Special Forces operative who's been ordered to take out a Chechen nuclear power plant be... Read allWith Russia on the brink of nuclear annihilation, there's only one man who can save it: an elite U.S. Special Forces operative who's been ordered to take out a Chechen nuclear power plant before terrorists set off a live reactor.With Russia on the brink of nuclear annihilation, there's only one man who can save it: an elite U.S. Special Forces operative who's been ordered to take out a Chechen nuclear power plant before terrorists set off a live reactor.

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IMDb RATING

4.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
An entire dialog sequence was lifted directly from Fred Olen Ray's Active Stealth (1999) when the film came in under time.

Goofs
In the opening sequence a fighter pilot acknowledges cleared for takeoff, presses a toggle on the dash, and we see a gauge spinning up past "1.5" followed by a tail view of the jet taxiing out. However the gauge we saw was clearly marked "MACH", and going MACH 1.5 while taxiing on the ground in a jet fighter is a bit difficult.

Quotes
[from trailer]
Painter: Are your nerves shaking?... that means your instincts are turned on.

Connections
Edited from Top Gun (1986)

Soundtracks
Public Eye
Written and Performed by David Wurst
Courtesy of CSS Music

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Featured review

1/10

Sucks!

Cruising the video store and picked up as a fan of Snipes. Didn't realize he had been involved in such a stinker. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Confusing initial attempt to set stage for world wide danger, continuity staff (if any used) were asleep at the switch. Army Ranger in tower would shoot out window with AK-47 and then the inside shot when he ducks from bullets had him holding a HK. One of the scientists when alive was a woman with long blond hair, all dead ones were men. Avoid at all costs!

Even Snipes action scenes were not up to his usual standard. His 'stealthiness' in kicking the Rangers' butts during the training mission consisted of him running through the woods at night and they just couldn't see him. Then later he outruns a jeep with a guy firing a mounted machine gun at him. Stinko!

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