Chief of Station

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Chief of Station

Released May 3, 2024

1h 37m

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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

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.

Rated: 2/5

May 29, 2024

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Brian Cartwright

Daily Grindhouse

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

Rated: B+

Sep 3, 2025

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Cris Kennedy

Inner East Review

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

Rated: 3/5

Oct 3, 2024

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Generic action spy film.

Rated: B-

Jun 4, 2024

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

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.

Rated: 2/5

May 18, 2024

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

[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.

May 7, 2024

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Chris M

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

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/20/25

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Kafe R

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.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/13/25

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Shawn

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?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/24/25

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Mark D

Started watching and gave up after roughly 3000 bullets from 12 hit men were fired from automatic weapons and missed the Chief of Station who was unarmed Totally BS

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

06/01/25

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Luke M

Absolutely terrible. Acting was shocking throughout. The action sequences were diabolical, 'storm trooper' aiming throughout the film when firing guns. Still don't fully understand the plot.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/29/25

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John G

I liked it....spy movie with intrigue

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/21/25

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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

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