The Art of War: Betrayal, is a worse than the typical Snipes vehicle and is headed straight to DVD. His best movies are where he does very little acting and has very little dialog with a lot of action. Snipes tries to act which is never a good thing. The original Art of War was decent yet part 2 is absolutely horrendous. Wesley Snipes would have been better off using the money to make this movie to pay his taxes. I still haven't seen The Marksman with Wesley Snipes, but judging by this painful mess, I am not going to bother. You can skip this one, even if you love action-films. A dull story, bad camera-work, lame characters and so on. Like Seagal, Snipes is also years away from his glory-days. Think of this as Snipes' former direct-to-DVD movies (Steven Seagal has some of these too) so the budget is limited, just like the acting, the story and so on. The story has nothing to do with the original, so it was purely a marketing-trick. Art of War II co-stars Lochlyn Munroe, a comedy actor who has had some excellent roles in 'Dead Man On Campus' and 'Scary Movie'. On the action-level, it certainly delivered with a great twist at the end (and some good action as well). The Art Of War was also a decent action-flick which co-starred Michael Biehn(Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss). Wesley Snipes is to this day still a qualified action-star, movies like Passenger 57, Murder at 1600 and the Blade Trilogy made him great. Wesley Snipes Means No Budget These Days. That said I did watch this one straight after 'Brutal' (2007), which makes it seem a masterpiece in comparison. Forgettable, passable, but in the end not a total waste of time, if you want to chill. This one however wasn't even half-bad and Snipes carries the movie decently. Wesley Snipes stays fit and is appealing to watch, no matter how appalling the said role.

Definitely on a lower level than the original, but all in all I did feel entertained and don't really feel the need to nitpick. Also SFX are a bit iffy, but that shouldn't lower the satisfaction from watching the flick. It has flaws, especially the overusing of the shaky cam, but hell. The plot thickens, when his friend and employer Garret, an actor with his sights on the US Senate, is subject to a botched assassination attempt. But was this really an accident? Shaw teams up with Melina Cruz, the out-of-marriage daughter of Mom. The good life ends, when Shaw receives word of Mom, cross-dresser, special op, mentor and teacher, being killed in a freak robbery. The money is good and leaves enough time to hone the body and martial arts skills. Wesley Snipes returns as Neil Shaw, now an ex-special operative, who earns his dough by consulting Hollywood action flicks.

It ain't no masterpiece or even great action flick, but all in all this is a Wesley Snipes bad-to-da-bone thriller roller-coaster with a couple of interesting twists.

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