I had never heard about the 2024 action sci-fi movie titled "Agent Recon", before stumbling upon it by random chance. I saw that the movie had Chuck Norris on the cast list, and thus opted to sit down and watch it, though I harbored zero expectations as I never been much of a fan of Chuck Norris.
The storyline in "Agent Recon" is simplistic, to the point where it bordered on stupidity. And it felt like writer and director Derek Ting, whom also starred in the movie in a leading role, believed that the audience was a bunch of brainless amoeba. I will go as far as saying that you have to sit down and watch the movie in order to get a grasp on how idiotic this whole thing was.
Derek Ting is lacking directorial skills, and the movie comes off as a confusing heap of random scenes shot independently of one another and put together in post editing to attempt to make a coherent movie out of the footage.
Right, so we are to believe that people wearing black pants, black leather coats and some black masks are alien invaders or something? Yeah, that just failed to come off as being believable. If anything, it was just laughable and such a very low budget way of making up alien creatures.
Aside from Chuck Norris, the movie also had Marc Singer on the cast list. But they were the only two familiar faces for me. It was quite a nod towards the 1983 "V" TV series that they had Marc Singer say "lizards disguised as humans" in this movie. That definitely brought a smile to my lips. The acting performances in the movie were fair, despite the fact that the script as a dung heap.
There were a fair amount of action scenes in the movie, and they are actually the only thing that keeps the movie from sinking to the bottom.
Sure, I had no expectations to "Agent Recon", but this movie was a laughable excuse of an action sci-fi.
Don't waste your time, money or effort on this rubbish. Some of us suffered through this, so you don't have to; you're quite welcome. I am never returning to watch "Agent Recon" a second time, as it was an uphill struggle to get through it the first time, and I can't claim that I was entertained by the storyline.
My rating of writer and director Derek Ting's 2024 movie "Agent Recon" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.
