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Chain of Command (2000)

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User Rating: 4.7/10 (442 votes)

Overview

Director:
John Terlesky
Writer:
T.L. Lankford (writer)
Plot:
Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues. full summary | add synopsis
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An implausible story more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Roy Scheider ... President Jack Cahill
Patrick Muldoon ... Special Agent Michael Connelly
Maria Conchita Alonso ... Vice President Gloria Valdez

Michael Biehn ... Craig Thornton
Ric Young ... Ken Fung

Sung Hi Lee ... Iris

William R. Moses ... Agent Gary Phillips

Tom Wright ... Agent Burke

Philip Tan ... Wu

Michael Mantell ... David Lehmann

Byron Field ... Lt. Southern

John Putch ... Agent Joe Lambert

Pat Skipper ... Agent Ellroy
Francis Maikai ... Ting
Herb Mitchell ... Admiral Harrington
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality.
Runtime:
Germany:96 min
Country:
France | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Iceland:12 | Argentina:16 | Germany:16 (video premiere) | UK:15 | USA:R | Australia:M
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The shots of the ocean liner blowing up are stock footage from Deep Rising (1998). more
Goofs:
Continuity: The distance traveled by the American and Chinese ICBM's in the final attack changes between shots. more
Movie Connections:
Features Deep Rising (1998) more

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0 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
An implausible story, 31 August 2001
1/10
Author: robeykr from Warminster, PA

I at first thought this little fantasy excursion would be a little entertaining. I was wrong.

A good cast (Roy Scheider as the president) didn't help it any. The story had every conceivable possible worst-case scenario that could take place in a terrorist nuclear disaster. And none of it could POSSIBLY happen!

True -- the kidnapping of the President could only be accomplished with the inside help of a traitor in the Secret Service (ala Air Force One), but everything they depicted regarding the FOOTBALL and the helplessness of our country if were to fall into enemy hands is ludicrous to the Nth degree. Seriously, not even the President can fully over-ride our missile control. The case is only used to relay orders. In this situation, our system would have completely deleted the codes and the whole thing would go nowhere. The destruction of Beijing couldn't happen -- there would not have been a missile launch because the silo-crews would have been instructed not to (communications include a hardwired system). There are just too many safe-guards to prevent such a thing from happening.

True, film's like FAIL-SAFE and STRANGELOVE gave some credibility to the concept of us losing control of THE SYSTEM. But this film goes too far and fails to suspend my concept of the unbelievable. And that makes the experience a waste of the viewer's time. This film is a failure.

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