One Shot

I am a big fan of scifi movies. Even when they are cheaply made. As long as they have a intelligent made or even just interesting story i am entertained by that. On Shot did not entertain me at all.

There is a sniper who is somehow observed from a military space station using an infrared telescope. Thats the whole scifi part of this movie. This guy does what a sniper does. Lying in the dirt, sniping and running to his next position. After watching for 15 minutes a sniper running through the desert, shooting "aliens" which are just guys with contact lenses and fancy gas masks i started to fast forward. >> More desert >> more sniping >> more guys with contact lenses and gas masks and so on. All non military "Aliens" look very arabic by the way. Maybe because people which live in deserts automatically dress like arabs ... even if they are aliens.

If you cut out the few parts with the space station you could easily retitle the movie to "Afghanistan sniper adventure". Some people would maybe wonder why the Afghans have all blue eyes and what unusual brand of gas mask they are wearing there, but most people would not even notice that it was meant to be a science fiction flick.

This is probably a somehow acceptable sniper movie, but it completely failed at being a science fiction movie.

A certain waste of everyone's time, including the supposed aliens - saved money by having them humans, as well.

Hot babe , but not enough to make this nything other than implausible, unlikely, poorly executed and acted - and generally and specifically stupid.

Why there is a length requirement for trash movies is odd - given this one is so bad ... bad as in really, really bad. How bad is it? It is so bad, once one realizes it is this bad, they know it is bad. Trying to consider more ways to say how bad is hard given how bad it is - bad and goofy equipment including skywalket things and bad costumes and bad acting ... really bad.

I started to watch this lame excuse for a film on GREAT movies action on UK Freeview as I just needed an evening vegging out after a hard day at work. However, I was unable to relax as this film - called Sniper Elite in the UK - is woeful and irritatingly so. I enjoy trashy alien movies such as Cowboys vs Aliens. At least in that film they made and effort to make the alien soldiers look extra-terrestrial. The costume manager for this film probably got a job lot of SWAT uniforms at an army surplus store. The rest of the budget was probably spent on half a dozen tubes of Colgate blue gel toothpaste for the aliens' blue blood; a few cans of industrial black paint for the plywood set masquerading as the interior of a space station; some bedsheets out of which to make Arabic looking costumes for the non-military aliens. I doubt anything was spent on the cast as they had very little to do, except run around or look sincere/intense. To save the money spent on the army surplus gear and toothpaste the producers appear to have done away with the need for a screenwriter and director and let the actors ad lib lines. Of course, the aliens speak English/American. You know what? This film doesn't even deserve to have viewers wasting their time writing a review let alone watching this drivel. I actually gave up after 50 minutes. It's right down there with Jaws, The Revenge as one of the worst films I've ever seen.

I just watched it on Netflix. It's OK. The sci-fi part, I agree with some reviews, is not really present apart from the space station which doesn't play any interesting part in the movie.

It is slow at the beginning, I had to watch it with subs so the alien's translations could appear.

I liked the story, there is one indeed. The end is good too. Lots of killing, the alien race is rubbish at combat, it's almost boring to see them killed like mosquitos. The special effects aren't that creative but overall it was OK.

Just because a film has a low budget, doesn't mean it needs to be stupid.

There's too many moments where our hero stands out in the open, surrounded by enemies and yet they all miss. They are worse than Stormtroopers!! Supposedly well trained military do the most ridiculous things.

The other rather annoying thing is that despite the film being called Sniper Elite on Amazon Prime, there's very little actual sniping.

The story drags and goes nowhere. There's a really out of place monologue towards the end that is laughable. Most of the run time is spent trudging across a flat desert / scrub land.

There's maybe a vaguely interesting premise behind this film, but it is lost under the weight of bad story telling, awful script, cliche, and poor direction.