Chief of Station

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Chief of Station

2024

1h 37m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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Ben is a former CIA station chief whose world comes crashing down after his wife, a former operative, dies in a terrible accident. Soon, a cryptic message sends him back into the shadowy underworld of Eastern Europe, teaming up with a former adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew about his wife and the agency that he worked for.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

05/29/2024

2/5

In the absence of any feel for intrigue, not least the potential intricacies of a husband-and-wife spook team, Johnson shuffles a deck of espionage-film cliches largely at random.

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Brian Cartwright

Daily Grindhouse

Sep 3

B+

CHIEF OF STATION is tense, violent, thrilling and, perhaps most rewardingly, it’s familiar and comfortable in its construction.

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Cris Kennedy

Inner East Review

10/03/2024

3/5

The screenplay is by George Mahaffey and while his dialogue has a good rhythm to it, his plotting doesn't get very deep.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

06/04/2024

B-

Generic action spy film.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

05/18/2024

2/5

This generic spy thriller consists of rudimentary action and chase scenes, tons of exposition as characters explain the plot to one another, and textbook twists that lack life or spark.

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

05/07/2024

[Chief of Station] does give Johnson a chance to flex some filmmaking muscles of a different sort... [It] isn’t going to win any awards, but it gets the job done with efficiency and precision. That’s the Jesse V. Johnson guarantee.

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Jo D

@Bookworm0100 Feb 16

Terrible script, bad directing, horrible action scenes. Why do directors, writers,etc., think the audience is always stupid enough to just accept bad movies. As someone else already stated, people were just standing around waiting to be killed. Aaron Eckhart seems to be accepting roles in the wrong movies. Don’t waste your time watching this movie. Do something more productive like taking a nap. You’ll get more out of the nap.

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Jason L

@FloridaMovieCritic Jan 9

What a terrible movie. Predictable plot, predictable bad guy. Aaron Eckhart whispers through the whole movie. Dialogue is awful. Bad guy takes off leather jacket to torture guy, then gets knocked out, then shows up again with his leather jacket back on. Geez! Even the bad guy that got stabbed twice in the neck, smacked in the face with a boat anchor and thrown overboard, shows up a few minutes later without a scratch on him. How do movies like this keep getting made? Just awful.

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Aggie T

@RT00630985 Nov 30

Everyone stands there waiting to get shot. The protagonist also stands there waiting to get shot, but luckily for him, he has some miraculous force field that repels bullets. The bad guys do not. I gave it an extra star because it has Aaron Eckhart in it .. and that's always a good thing.

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Chris M

@RT19484002 Aug 20

Absolutely abysmal. Don’t waste a second of your day watching this garbage that they have the affront to call a movie. It’s a shocker. Terrible amateur acting, useless predictable plot, unrealistic battle scenes, nonsense Russian speaking Agent … I could go on .. but it’s not worthy of any more rebukes. Kill it off your watch list

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Kafe R

@Kafe101 07/13/2025

Terrible. Cant believe people got paid to make this trash. An army of assassins clinically kill a bunch of russians with headshots then cant hit another guy ten feet away? Ekhart has the charisma of a rock.

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Shawn

06/24/2025

Action spy movie that had me in the fog as to the premise most all the way through. Maybe that’s because I didn’t care enough to focus on the storyline?

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Synopsis

Ben is a former CIA station chief whose world comes crashing down after his wife, a former operative, dies in a terrible accident. Soon, a cryptic message sends him back into the shadowy underworld of Eastern Europe, teaming up with a former adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew about his wife and the agency that he worked for.

Director: Jesse V. Johnson
Producer: Steve Lee Jones, Matthew Shreder, Jonathan Halperyn, Daniel Kresmery, Simon Williams
Screenwriter: George Mahaffey
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: TDP FILMS, Hero Squared, Bee Holder Productions, Concourse Media, Ashland Hill Media Finance, Tip-Top Productions, Filmology Finance
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2024
Runtime: 1h 37m