Damn, dude! Simon says that Wesley Snipes looks fantastic for a 54-year-old badass. Honestly, I don't think I've seen him act in anything since the 2004 release of Blade: Trinity. That being said, Snipes has been keeping himself busy while appearing in some under-the-radar flicks like The Marksman, The Detonator, The Contractor, and Hard Luck. Beyond that, he's also lent his talents to films like... Read More...
- 5/2/2017
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
I'm standing in some weird country – the name sounds made up – and searching desperately for some obscure item that only marginally seems like it should help me in my quest. Of course, I'm only remotely aware of what that quest actually is, but I think it involves ripping off some foreign person with a strange name. It doesn't really matter, though, because I'm somehow completely incapable of finding this proverbial needle in a haystack.
That's the way it feels playing through Wesley Snipes' first foray into the video game market. It's bizarre, confusing, and most of the time, just lacking in fun.
The Basics
"Julius Styles: The International" is basically a point-and-click iOS adventure game. There are puzzle elements mixed in from time to time – and some shooting – but you'll spend the majority of your play experience searching for tiny little items around various locations.
The story focuses on – you guessed it – Julius Styles,...
That's the way it feels playing through Wesley Snipes' first foray into the video game market. It's bizarre, confusing, and most of the time, just lacking in fun.
The Basics
"Julius Styles: The International" is basically a point-and-click iOS adventure game. There are puzzle elements mixed in from time to time – and some shooting – but you'll spend the majority of your play experience searching for tiny little items around various locations.
The story focuses on – you guessed it – Julius Styles,...
- 8/16/2011
- by Matt Clark
- MTV Multiplayer
Kotaku reports that actor Wesley Snipes, currently serving a three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, is working with a Finnish developer on an action/strategy game scheduled for multi-platform release later this year. They're calling it "Julius Styles: The International." Lapland Studio's website describes the project thus:
In a world of money, power, sex and murder, Julius Styles (Wesley Snipes) is an international "Facilitator" a man whose unique talents make him a valuable commodity.
A facilitator, huh? The description sounds suspiciously like the plot of one or any of Snipes recent string of by-the-numbers, straight-to-video movies.
"The Contractor" (2007)
"The Detonator" (2006)
"The Marksman" (2005)
Why not just call the game "The Facilitator"?
Seriously, though. Best wishes to the imprisoned Snipes on keeping busy and presumably generating some income to pay off those debts. But I've long felt his particular brand of invulnerable, paramilitary, Zen-killer, one-man-wrecking-crew action narrative is a relic of a bygone era.
In a world of money, power, sex and murder, Julius Styles (Wesley Snipes) is an international "Facilitator" a man whose unique talents make him a valuable commodity.
A facilitator, huh? The description sounds suspiciously like the plot of one or any of Snipes recent string of by-the-numbers, straight-to-video movies.
"The Contractor" (2007)
"The Detonator" (2006)
"The Marksman" (2005)
Why not just call the game "The Facilitator"?
Seriously, though. Best wishes to the imprisoned Snipes on keeping busy and presumably generating some income to pay off those debts. But I've long felt his particular brand of invulnerable, paramilitary, Zen-killer, one-man-wrecking-crew action narrative is a relic of a bygone era.
- 1/11/2011
- by Neil Drumming
- ifc.com
Dressed in a black suit, purple T-shirt and a pair of Ray-Ban glasses, Wesley Snipes does not look like a man facing hard time. Good humoured, garrulous even the actor best known for his role as the vampire hunter in Blade arrives for our interview seemingly without a care in the world. Announcing his "spirit is well", it's almost understandable. With a decade of straight-to-dvd duds with titles like The Detonator and The Marksman behind him, he's just pleased to be back in a major release. An intense cop drama from the director of Training Day, Brooklyn's Finest unquestionably offers him his best role in years.
- 6/3/2010
- The Independent - Film
When Mickey Rourke, a little over a year ago, enjoyed his big comeback, every story about him made a point of cataloguing his mythological mountain of trials and tribulations: the brutal battering he subjected himself to in the boxing ring, the drugs and booze and broken relationships, the botched plastic surgery, the "F-k yous!" to the movie industry and to his own fame, the lonely 3 a.m. convenience-store runs, the whole teary raging self-destructive fall from grace. It all got talked about, of course, because it was such a great, juicy, sad, fascinating story. But it also seemed an essential story because,...
- 3/18/2010
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
'I'm elated to be in a good quality product and a good quality project,' actor says of the film.
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Wesley Snipes
Photo: MTV News
Wesley Snipes' last appearance in a major film release came in 2004's box-office disappointment "Blade Trinity." From there he faced a slew of tax-related charges from the IRS and a string of roles in straight-to-dvd stinkers with names like "The Detonator" and "The Art of War II: Betrayal."
"Brooklyn's Finest," out Friday (March 5), marks a sort of homecoming for the 47-year-old actor, both in terms of claiming a meaty role in a mainstream film opposite Hollywood vets and also in that he returns to dramatic material after years of action schlock.
"If they call it a comeback and we can do more of these, that's great, I'm with it 100 percent," Snipes told MTV News recently. "I'll...
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
Wesley Snipes
Photo: MTV News
Wesley Snipes' last appearance in a major film release came in 2004's box-office disappointment "Blade Trinity." From there he faced a slew of tax-related charges from the IRS and a string of roles in straight-to-dvd stinkers with names like "The Detonator" and "The Art of War II: Betrayal."
"Brooklyn's Finest," out Friday (March 5), marks a sort of homecoming for the 47-year-old actor, both in terms of claiming a meaty role in a mainstream film opposite Hollywood vets and also in that he returns to dramatic material after years of action schlock.
"If they call it a comeback and we can do more of these, that's great, I'm with it 100 percent," Snipes told MTV News recently. "I'll...
- 3/5/2010
- MTV Movie News
It's been eight long years since Wesley Snipes has been in anything resembling a box-office hit. Since then, the action-movie mainstay has stumbled into one career manhole after another. As we reported in a profile of the troubled actor in 2007, Snipes has been a magnet for chaos off-screen (a long and costly series of court battles with the IRS over his alleged refusal to pay taxes) and a shadow of his former self on-screen. In fact, six of his last seven movies, featuring C-list costars and interchangeable titles like The Contractor and The Detonator, have gone straight-to-dvd. Before all of this,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Chris Nashawaty
- EW.com - PopWatch
Revolution IDs Snipes as 'Doe'
Blade star Wesley Snipes will star in the title role of Revolution Studios' sci-fi action script tentatively titled John Doe, which will mark the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Zak Penn. Penn also wrote the script for Doe, which tells the story of a homeless man (Snipes) with severe memory loss who tries to recover his former life. As he is putting the pieces back together -- including how his beautiful girlfriend and fabulous home fit into his life -- he also discovers that he has superhuman abilities he can't explain. He goes on a quest to uncover his true identity, and the answer proves to be more terrifying than he ever imagined. At the same time, he is desperately eluding the relentless assassin who knows his secret and is determined to keep it hidden by any means necessary. Paul Schiff is producing. Snipes, repped by UTA, most recently starred in Miramax Films' Undisputed. The actor was previously attached to star in Intermedia Films' Godforsaken but is no longer involved with that project.
- 12/5/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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