Below any averages

Rating: 3/10 (16 May 2007)

I walked into cinema with heavy skepticism. Like going to see a Steven Seagal movie or so.
Few minutes and bad CGI later, protagonist lets his spotter determine target and fires his heavy caliber sniper gun at a convoy. In almost empty cinema room, with loudspeakers at max, this was simply the best part of the movie. It was, well, really-really cool.
Then a chopper arrived. And rest?
Rest was utter dropping of a large male domestic animal.
I never liked Mark Wahlberg, mostly because of his looks and character. He played quite well... though it's hard to be sympathetic to whiny 45-years old boy face like his. Well, at least he does what he's paid for, and some scenes turned out very well.
What didn't turn out so well was making him a Rambo. A shooter? A SHOOTER? A shooter is a silent man miles away, bringing instant, painful death via large smoking hole in the head. Not overgrown kid running around with guns blazing... In last case, I'd prefer a robot from the future or one true overgrown kid - Sylvester Stallone. The one who actually fits into this role and is a cute killing machine.
The scenes with house in the mountains (so MacGyver) and killer pulled into killing without him wanting this is a very special trademark of EVERY S.Seagal movie, and it could describe intro random movie of his. You knew that, didn't you. And this even isn't one of his films!
Few nice scenes aside, I don't really recommend this movie to anyone.
I don't think that there's many bad movies. .. There's a horrible cast, especially lead role. This is definitely one of those movies.