Called to Duty

It should come as no surprise that I hadn't heard about this 2023 action movie titled "Called to Duty" prior to stumbling upon it by random chance. And with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to sit down to watch it.

Initially, I figured that this movie was going to be a female-lead cash-in on the "Top Gun" movie success. And without having heard anything about the movie, I didn't really know what I was in for.

And I managed to endure a staggering 32 minutes of absolute boredom, cringeworthy dialogue, and rubbish storyline. Writer Bobby Hammel put together what can only be described as a dumpster fire attempt of a movie script for director Ashley L. Gibson to bring to the screen.

The character gallery in "Called to Duty" was every bit as cringeworthy and shallow as the dialogue, so at least those two things went hand in hand.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Called to Duty". And after what I witnessed in the 32 minutes of mind-boggling boredom that I sat through, I can't say that I was impressed with the wooden, rigid and amateurish performances. The dialogue was delivered with the elegance and grace of a coal shovel in the hands of wooden marionettes.

Do yourself a favor and stay well clear of this airplane crash of a movie. It just simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.

My rating of "Called to Duty" lands on a one out of ten stars.

Here we have another in the long line of 'female empowerment' movies so popular with fashion-minded Hollywood these days.

Now, I think it is quite appropriate and desirable to showcase realistic female capabilities. However, I think it is getting to the point of fantasy and revisionism when we insist that 'women can do anything that men can do, but better' and try to prove that with manipulation, exaggeration and simple fiction.

So we have an example here of ALL the top air force pilots being women. Of course they are, dear. Another comical example we have is the recently released series Special Ops: Lioness, with the female protagonist physically outperforming navy seals. Of course she can, dear.

PS. I am a (realistic, I think) middle-aged woman.

Script was terrible, acting was poor, editing terrible. They tried to make it something it was not, they made a point to show a behind the ear tattoo on one of the female flyers, this is against military rules, no facial tats. I believe the music was added as a filler ( cheaper than actors speaking) that is why on Baywatch they had music, the Hoff said the music was 3 minutes of almost free screen time. The part where a junior officer talked back to the senior officer would never happen.

I would like to see females in a team, but I think it should be mixed with males.

They tried to make it sexy by one of the females in a gym top but what was the point.

The part where the team leader was on horseback and said she had a message from here commander, and said she was on her time and would call back when she was done riding would never happen.

This movie is bad just bad. I dont know how anyone can rate this higher than a 3. Somehow from the beginning . Just awful intro music that this was not gonna be good. But I gave it a chance as much as I could stand to at least I didn't make it too far into the movie before I could see that this movie was not well made. It didn't seem like anybody could act at all in some aspects it looked like a homemade movie. This is one of those movies thats going to be popular on RiffTrax. It was almost laughable, and I couldn't see wasting anymore time on it. Somehow I get the feeling that some of these early previous reviews are somehow biased. I know this seems like a very harsh review but it's my honest opinion ( I don't like misleading reviews) , don't waste your time.

This movie has a lower production value and worse acting than adult films.

It's possibly the worst movie I've seen in recent memory.

Every single aspect of film making was executed at a homemade level.

Even the lighting looked like it was rigged with house lamps and the color temperature reminded me of Sony Handycam's.

Terrible, absolutely horrendous acting. I'm not kidding, children in school plays often act better than this.

Worst story, character arcs, and screen writing that I think I've ever seen. No one who worked on this movie should be allowed back into movie production.

Movies like this don't deserve to be made. It was a waste of money and time, and it's an embarrassment on their careers.