Sabotage
Sabotage
| 07 March 1996 (USA)
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Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.

Reviews
Bevin Chu

Surprisingly good action film. Far better than some big budget films that somehow made it into the theaters but should have gone straight to video.Surprisingly upscale cast. Carrie Anne Moss of future Matrix fame. Also excellent veteran character actors such as Graham Greene. Good sniper-themed films are few and far between. The original Day of the Jackal, Sniper, Shooter, Quigley Down Under, Enemy at the Gates. You can pretty much list them on the fingers of one hand.Admittedly Sabotage makes a few technical gaffes regarding the nitty-gritty of how snipers operate. But if one is willing to overlook them, Sabotage is actually one of the better sniper-themed films around.Lots of "gun porn" for firearms freaks. Lots of intrigue, double-crosses and triple-crosses for thriller fans. Satisfying conclusion. I disagree with those who say the ending was an anti-climax.It even has some of the earliest uses of "bullet time." Judicious use too, used appropriately. Not overkill.

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greenflickerstick

This is a fine example of the kind of films I like to see Mark Dacascos in. Mark plays an ex black ops leader. After being double crossed and left for dead, he resurfaces as a bodyguard for high profile political figures. After his client is assassinated he uncovers a web of arms dealing, corrupt cia officials and a strange link between his past as a black ops member and his clients murder. This film offers some of the earliest examples of the highly overused "bullet time " effect as well as some brief but well staged fight sequences. This is one of the best examples of a low budget film that pulls out all the stops.

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kenzonihon33

I enjoyed this film because I am a Mark Dacascos fan. He plays a street smart bold character/hired bodyguard who is resourceful and tough. His one fight scene in the hotel has a great cinematic angle. At first, this film may confuse the viewer because the dialogue is not simple to grasp at first yet after the 3rd time watching this film, I finally understood it. Carry Ann-Moss plays a tough single mother/FBI agent with a strong willed-killer instinct. The film has good action, humor that is dry and a emotional-chess like story line.

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gfasmer

The first time I saw this movie I thought it was pretty good. Good acting, a lot of action through the hole movie, but it was a bit confusing. It is about NAVY Seal, in a mission he gets shot by a man called Sherwood. He cant continue in the army, so he gets a job in a bodyguard company. one day his client gets shot by a man, and after a while he understand that it was Sherwood that shot his client. Later in the movie it begins to be hard to understans who's on his side, and he see that some of his closest friends are behind this big conspiracy. He gets to know a female FBI agent, and together they find out more, and that it was some FBI agents in the conspiracy too. They take the female FBI agents daughter, and at the end they kill em all. And in the middel of all this, they are after the bodyguard, because they want to arrest him. Beside all the confusing stuff it was good, with a lot of action. Not a movie that you have to see.

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