Agent Recon

There's something to be said about a truly disastrous film, a film forever indelible in your memory because it's so uniquely bad, it can only be deemed an achievement. The sort of film where everyone involved was definitely trying to do something; it's just not entirely clear what. Agent Recon is that film.

How do you mess up this badly when you have Chuck Norris? Chuck Norris deserved better than this. Not sure where they found that lead, but he is a complete buffoon. This film is an insult to Chuck Norris and deeply upsetting to his fans.

There is nothing good to be said about this film, except that Agent Recon is a good example of bad filmmaking.

Agent 1 was so bad I laughed. Agent 2 had me cringing. Agent 3 had me whimpering in a fetal position.

With Agent Recon, Derek Ting continues his hot streak of destroying his own franchise, his own career, and the careers of others with a laughably bad vanity project that is a strong awards contender for Worst Movie of 2024.

I feel bad for Chuck Norris and Marc Singer for getting put into such a horrible mess.

Watching this was pure torture. Even the CIA would not force prisoners to watch this. The writing, acting, and directing are uncomfortably embarrassing. The try-hard, goofy protagonist has no star power and his action scenes were total cringe. Each movie just makes him a bigger laughingstock.

Not worth watching, even if it's free.

I was honestly looking forward to seeing this movie mainly because of the one and only Chuck Norris. I was trying to decide if I should rent the film or watch for free on a pirated website. Of course chose the pirated. Sat back as the film started. 12 minutes go by and honestly I had no idea what the hell was going on. No sense of direction and the lead actor Derek Ting (who is also the director and writer) was just godawful and annoy. The antagonist was laughable. The random kills were hilarious. The editing was choppy. Chuck Norris was in the film for about 10 minutes and didn't do anything till the end which was honestly the good thing about this mess. Wish I tuned out after the 12 minutes went by. Dear Derek Ting, please never make another movie.

I usually don't review films on here, but I had to voice my disgust. The acting is absolutely horrible. Chuck Norris is literally sitting still and talking like he is reading straight off a script for most of the movie. Then toward the end he stands in the middle of the open shooting a minigun he is holding, which is magically shooting endless bullets despite not having any ammo belt feeding it. Then he starts punching and kicking the bad guys just like any cranky 80-something year old man would. Almost the entire movie takes place in one compound out in the middle of nowhere. It is like some school kid wrote this script and directed this movie for a school assignment. I don't think the SyFy channel will even ever show this, which would say something.

Sometimes I like to watch movies that have a score of 3 or lower out of 10, just to see how terrible it is. How bad can it really be? I never believe a score can be that low and each and every time I go yeah that movie deserves it. I've seen a few movies like this now, and a lot of them have one thing in common that helps them all seem to be churned out by the same terrible movie factory. No it's not the bad acting , choppy editing, repetitive scores, even more bad acting and nonsensical writing. No, what they have in common is the protagonist, writer, producer and director are all the same person, instead of doing one thing well, or at the very least adequately, they do multiple jobs terribly. This may seem mean, but I don't think there is anyone else to blame, he took all the jobs. With only a handful of reviews it is possible that Derek Ting will read this, but really it doesn't matter because it won't discourage him from doing what he does. The idea that he can go around and tell people he's an actor, director, writer and producer irks me a little but what can you do? Irks me a little but what can you do.

2/10 because at least the camera was in focus and the audio was clear.