{"id":30903,"date":"2023-04-06T10:47:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30903"},"modified":"2023-04-03T19:48:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:48:28","slug":"movie-report-the-marksman-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/movie-report-the-marksman-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Report: The Marksman<\/i> (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI picked this film up not long after I watched The Art of War<\/a><\/em> with Wesley Snipes a couple of weeks ago. Like that film, this DVD was a little deeper in the archives–meaning I did not buy it this year–but I figured that I would not be quite so primed to watch a Snipes film, especially an obscure Snipes film, as I would be right after another Snipes film. Well, this is the third in relatively short succession as I did watch Demolition Man<\/em> recently even though I did not report on it–because when I ordered it, it came as part of a four-pack of Sylvester Stallone films, and I didn’t move it to the review staging area because the set has three more films in it. Sorry, I have let you down.<\/p>\n

Also, I guess this means that I am on a Sylvester Stallone kick since I also recently watched The Expendables<\/a><\/em>. But that’s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

So: Wesley Snipes plays Painter, a spotter who identifies targets for precision bombing. He proves how good he is in an exercise, but he has a dark past: He mistakenly “painted” the wrong target, leading to his support team getting killed. He’s drawn into a mission to identify a decommissioned nuclear plant in Chechnya before terrorists can re-start the nuclear reaction and blow it up, creating devastation and killing hundreds of thousands. However, it becomes clear that some sort of double-cross has occurred, and it’s the American missiles that will destroy the already reactivated power plant. So it’s a race against time to rescue what scientists he and his team can and to rectify the errors–and he’s not sure whom he can trust from above.<\/p>\n

So a better film than The Art of War<\/em>, although in 2005, the Russians, or certain hardline elements of the Russians, were the bad guys, some where good guys I guess? Then, as now, the internal politics and policy goals of a foreign people are difficult to ascertain. The movie itself plays a lot like a good direct to cable movie or a B movie would have been back in the day. Better than, say, Hell Comes To Frogtown<\/a><\/em> or Warlords<\/a><\/em>, with a bigger budget, but the Internet says they recycled some film from higher budget spectacles outside the generic military-in-the-industrial-facility scenes.<\/p>\n

Still, not bad.<\/p>\n

Also, it has an older (but younger than I am now) Emma Samms as a, um, psychologist\/handler\/love interest for the Wesley Snipes character.<\/p>\n

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I think I first saw Emma Samms in General Hospital<\/em>, and I know I watched her in The Colbys<\/em> because 1) my mother watched General Hospital<\/em> when we were young in the projects, and 2) I was into Dynasty<\/em> because my godfather uncle and godmother aunt were into Dallas<\/em>. Maybe they also liked Dynasty<\/em>. Either way, I watched it when I could.<\/p>\n


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She would have been in her early 20s in the middle 1980s and 44 when this film came out. And she has aged very well.<\/p>\n

I mean, if they rebooted Murder, She Wrote<\/em> with Emma Samms as Jessica Fletcher, I might watch it. Well, no, probably not, as I don’t watch current television and am only catching up on my early 2000s films now. But Angela Landsbury was a dish in her day, and Emma Samms is a dish any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked this film up not long after I watched The Art of War with Wesley Snipes a couple of weeks ago. Like that film, this DVD was a little deeper in the archives–meaning I did not buy it this year–but I figured that I would not be quite so primed to watch a Snipes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30905,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions\/30905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}