Poor Wesley Snipes. This man has had a lot of troubles recently. The latest of his troubles was having to drop out of a great Spike Lee gig because his legal troubles won’t allow him to travel to where they’re filming. Poor Wesley.
Lest you think I’m being sarcastic, I actually like Snipes. He’s been a fun dude to watch on the screen… certainly nothing legendary or overly special, but a fun leading man nonetheless (hell, I even liked Drop Zone). But the man has become synonymous with legal problems and worse than that, being a bastard to work with. This has all left Snipes with precious few decent project opportunities… it’s gotten so bad, then he’s apparently signed up to do Art of War 2. The folks at Cinematical give us this:
At first, they say, he wasn’t going to star in the sequel, but maybe money problems and traveling issues inspired him to reconsider. Snipes starred in The Art of War in 2000; it was a mid-range, generally-forgotten action movie that starred him as UN covert op that uses questionable means to keep the peace. However, then he’s framed for the murder of a bunch of Vietnamese refugees, and he has to find the answers in the typical wrongly-accused film fashion.
They’re being kind. The first Art of War movie was absolute trash. A wannabe action film with some wannabe political thriller intentions all rolled into one big mess. A totally forgettable film that I can’t for the life of me imagine why they’d want to make another one.
I mean really… if you MUST make a sequel to an older Snipes film, do Drop Zone 2: Still Dropping. Or perhaps Boiling Point 2, or maybe even Passenger 58. But Art of War???
