(10%) Poor Wesley Snipes having to be in crap like this. The script even for an action movie (the better action movies always have at least quite good scripts) is really, really poor, clichéd and bland, the supporting cast wouldn't be out of place in a daytime soap opera and a lot of the "action" is made up of old stock footage of planes landing on aircraft carriers again and again. Snipes, just like certain cheapo Seagal movies, is not actually in the movie that much, and when he is he's given just as bad lines as everyone else. There is one OK action sequence, but the awful and boring army intelligence scenes feel like they make up at least half of the run time and they just ruin everything. Snipes deserves better. Avoid.

I can't disagree with the general condemnation of the film found in all the other comments, although for so unpretentious and low-budget a movie I think some folks are being a little harsh. I wish that the filmmakers had thought to make a comedy, a satire on "Rangers lead the way", "SEALs rescue the world", "De oppresso liber"-type films. As it is, they almost did that anyway; not too many clichés were overlooked; if only someone had thought to write comedy deliberately... The aircraft carrier (or, judging by the captain's hat, nuclear submarine) should have been called something like the USS Millard Fillmore (which I suppose isn't any sillier than naming carriers after chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee, as has been done); instead of infantry lieutenants as jet pilots, they could have gone a step further and had, say, uniformed members of the Public Health Service; instead of the off-duty Rangers (or whatever they were supposed to be) being called out of a topless bar, have them attending a Beethoven concert--stuff like that. It could have been hilarious. Has anyone done a film like that yet? We have good satires on James Bondish spy flicks (e.g., Johnny English). How about one on the "Commando film" genre?

A WASTE OF TIME. Does Wesley Snipes really need the money that badly? There are many examples of actors doing a movie just because they need to pay off a new swimming pool or pay down a mortgage. (See Micael Caine in 1980's "the island"). Matt Andrews left his good TV roles to make the money too. This highly Forgettable movie had a bunch of apprentice actors in it with no experience. How much did they pay to rent those abandoned buildings and the sewage treatment plant in Romania? $50 a day? The entire crew list had just a few American names. Another example of making a movie outside the United States "on the cheap". I'll probably think hard before I watch another Wesley Snipers movie now that he's shown that he's in it just for the money.

This movie is a disaster. That is my primary "spoiler." It is unbelievably awful.It's also a little depressing that Wesley Snipes now appears in crap like this.If anyone knows why the title of this is called "The Marksman," please tell me. Is it because he "marks" a target? Are they kidding me? He's referred to as a "painter" the whole movie. Even "The Painter" would make more sense - but only a little. Since when did "painting" a target become some sort of unique military specialty? If you throw a grenade are you then "The Grenadier?" More on "painting" a target later.There are several problems with this movie that indicate a complete lack of understanding about the military, and it REALLY hurts the movie. It is almost as if someone just watched "Top Gun" and attempted to write a movie based solely on that information.Most atrocious is a dialog scene on board the fictitious aircraft carrier, the USS Oakla, that appears to be intended to depict interservice rivalry for no apparent reason. In this scene:1. The Oakla captain is wearing a ball-cap that reads "USS Oakla SSN 798." "SSN" is the designation for a nuclear powered attack submarine. "CVN" would be the designation for a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Also, the next hull number scheduled for an aircraft carrier would be 78, so 798 would be WAY off even for a fictitious hull number for an aircraft carrier. At the current rate of numbering since WWII, CVN 798 should arrive around the year 2620.2. Two lieutenants in the scene are Army (a military branch that does not operate jet fighter aircraft) officers who are supposedly qualified to fly F-14s (a Navy jet fighter). Both of the officers are wearing Infantry crossed rifle officer insignia, Expert Infantry Badges, and Airborne jump wings which make it even more unlikely that they are able to fly F-14s. This stretch snaps the movie big time.Other aspects of the movie are annoying as well. For example:1. The Army Rangers refer to enemy personnel as "bogeys" which is a term that would normally be associated with unidentified aircraft. A little closer would have been "bandits," since that is at least the term used for aircraft identified as hostile. Terms like "bad guys" or "enemy" would normally be used. I suppose if someone wanted to sound more "military," they could have referred to them as "enemy personnel" or "OPFOR," but using an aircraft term like "bogey" or even "bandit" is just ridiculous.2. I suppose that Army Rangers can operate in small teams like those depicted, but this would be much more common for SEAL or Delta teams or even the Army Special Forces. It seems as though the filmmakers just thought "Rangers" is a generic term for special operations forces.3. If anything, Army Rangers are known for their high level of discipline. They are not like the independent-minded type of soldier that would be found in Delta, so some of the scenes are just ridiculous.4. There is a lot of reference to "painting a target" that in this movie means planting some sort of homing device on a target. In actuality, this refers to firing a laser and keeping the target "painted" with the laser, so a precision munition can hit it.Other people mention the implausibility about some of the explosions or whatever, but that can be said about almost any action movie.Whoever wrote this movie did ZERO research. What kills this movie is almost total ignorance of what is supposed to be going on.But most of all...ARMY INFANTRY OFFICERS ARE NOT ABLE TO FLY F-14s!