Chain of Command (2015)

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

hyped garbage

From my favorite movies..

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

You don't need a spoiler alert with this movie because it was spoiled before it was even finished. I'm a real fan of Steve Austin and bought this movie on that basis. Just a shame that I couldn't make it to the end of the movie. Which is saying a lot because I have a very high pain threshold when it comes to bad movies and can normally soldier on through to the bitter end. Not with this lame puppy though. I was having serious misgivings at the 3 minute mark but hung in there hoping for some Steve Austin goodness to redeem the sad train wreck of a movie but finally conceded defeat at the 40 minute mark. Sometimes these sort of Z grade movies can be entertaining because of how bad they are but this one didn't entertain at any level. Predictable plot, very poor acting, lousy script, unbelievably unrealistic use of weapons and unarmed combat, sound track that was often inappropriate to what was happening on screen, poorly conceived sets and the list goes on. Pretty sure they used some of the crews houses and apartments for filming and prepped them by removing personal photos etc from the wall because why else would a living room have a whole bunch of empty picture hooks on the wall? Why was I even noticing stuff like that? Spotting the list of errors in this movie could be made into its own movie. The best part of this movie was the satisfying clunk it made as it bounced off the bottom of my trash can.

Micheal Jai White is one of the top direct-to-video action stars thanks to films like Undisputed II and Blood and Bone. His great martial arts skills are always complemented by his good acting. So how and why he got wrapped up in this amateur production is beyond me. Seriously, this flick is so flat and displays all of the style of something you would see on Hallmark or Lifetime. Even worse, director Kevin Carraway has very little insight on how to properly film and edit a fight scene (look for one shot where you can see the safety mat on the ground). Not allowing White to show case his abilities is just downright criminal. Add in a perfunctory plot and Steve Austin doing his best not to look off camera to spot a bank to cash his check and you have one of White's worst films in years. I understand he has to work, but I just wish it was with better people. I have no doubt White's forthcoming Never Back Down 3 will correct this.

Very bad acting if you wish to call it acting.Glad I did not pay to see this would have been a waist of money.The dialog is dry and amusing in that the characters try to sound bad ass.The use of weapons gets old too, hero shoots a bad guy in the warehouse with a loud echo two bad guys come to see what happen hero walks up behind bad guys shoots both in back of head.only one car has license plates on vehicle where several vehicles do not.It appears to be Christmas time but all the lawns are very green and most of the trees do not have leaves on them.Very bad movie waste of time.

This was a major waste of time. The post production was so bad I couldn't even watch all of it. Even if I did like the acting the sounds in the movie were terrible . My 5 year old could score this movie better by the way.. The music was cheap and bland... I could tell that they didn't have a budget but thats OK. Low budget movies don't always suck. But this had a budget of 5 million. It looks like it was shot with a family canon camera . There was a part where a man was shot in the leg. They decided to used CGI for the wound but the wound didn't move with his body so the CGI is dancing on his leg.. LIKE, WHAT??? Why would you do that? Who saw this and said " good job" ?? I am not trying to be mean but I paid for this and I am not happy. The two lead actors are good actors but they just look like they are doing this for a friend. I wish I could get my time back..very sad...