Advantages: Nothing at All Disadvantages: Poor direction, acting and dubbing in general it's just awful
It seems when you're an action star on top of your game that inevitably you have to resort to straight to video releases. In the past Van Damme and Seagal have both headed off in that direction and now it seems after the success of the Blade trilogy that Snipes is going down that road too. The quality of his movies in 2005 certainly took a dip and having seen the Marksman from late 2005 I decided to give 7 Seconds a try. Of course having seen the ... ...one either but what was there to lose, I quite like Snipes so settled down to watch it.
Snipes stars as a disgraced military commando by the name of Tuliver. Now an experienced thief he plans a heist with a number of ex army colleagues. After pulling off the perfect job they are intercepted during the get away by a rival gang and all of Tuliver's team but him and one other escape. Having escaped the scene with the aid of a Military police officer ...
Andy.mack 26.10.2006
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Anyone who has seen US Marshalls, Murder at 1600 or Passenger 57 will be aware that Wesley Snipes is an oddity in the Hollywood world of action stars. Not only can he walk and talk at the same time, which seems to fox Schwarznegger and Van Damme, but he can actually act.
So, it is not surprising that when a new film starring Snipes is released, I like to watch it. Well, sorry Wesley, no more. Not after this load of tripe.
But, I'm getting ahead ... ...PLOT Jack Tolliver (Snipes) and crew, pull off a daring robbery of an armed-car depot, and manage to steal 20million dollars and an extremely valuable Van Gogh painting. As they make their getaway, they get hijacked by the local Russian gangster mob, and most of them end up dead. Tolliver's girlfriend, who was in on the robbery, gets kidnapped by the mob and taken to their hideout.
Tolliver, narrowly avoiding death in the hijack, manages to escape ...
GUMMO1471 08.10.2005
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Action star Wesley Snipes (the Blade Trilogy, U.S. Marshals, Passenger 57) is a ... more
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