The Chamber (2016) Reviews

• Sub sea level/par feminist movement

  imatosser1822017-03-29

  A steely looking Tom Hanks lookalike lends his expertise and sea craft to a small special ops team on a recovery mission. We soon realise he is just a proto-main character and he quickly makes way for the female team leader to take charge of the storyline and screen. The mission quickly becomes a fight for survival as she makes one cretinous decision after another. Eventually she is challenged by her right hand man who is three times her size and has already knocked out a similarly sized character with a single punch. This is no problem for her though as she rips his shoulder out of it's socket then strangles him with her bare hands, but not before delivering some edgy put downs. In a final twist, her henchman rises from the dead and attacks Tom Hanks who by this time has been reduced to a useless damsel in distress. Not to worry. Our tiny heroine is on hand to save the day and kill him a second time! By this point I got the impression the audience was supposed to be rooting for her, which wasn't easy after her moronic actions had effectively killed everyone on board. Inevitably, the female is the only survivor and ends up stranded in the middle of the ocean. Couldn't have happened to a better person. Great if you're still not tired of the slowly dwindling feminist/sjw agenda.

• Pretty Difficult to Sit Through

  joe66292017-03-23

  I can't really fault the sets or effects as the entire set is pretty limited. Cinematography is OK, Audio is OK, Sound Track is serviceable and thankfully not annoying. Kuhnke (as "Mats") does a pretty solid job given a pretty weak script. Salt (as "Edwards" aka Stick-Girl) and McArdle (as "Parks" aka Dough-Boy) are both unsuitable to be cast as "military personnel" and unforgivable as "SEALs". Why IN THE WORLD did they cast a woman as a SEAL Team Commander? Seriously?... and a pallid, anorexic one at that? If you're as tired of the SJW/Feminist pandering that goes on in film as I am, you might want to pass this one up .... otherwise be prepared to see yet another 85lb supposed "super woman" with arms about the size of my 2-year old's throwing around a guy three times her size - eventually killing him with her bare hands. Right. SO believable. Additionally, the lack of discipline in both conduct and language coming from these supposedly "elite" soldiers is laughably bad - watching the two "SEALS" argue is like watching an old married couple fight.... and they fight a LOT. Since the writer apparently didn't seem to know any military personnel, he at least could have watched "The Abyss" a few times before writing his highly pressurized SEALs ;) I can't help but think that if the movie had been cast with believable characters, it would have added a star or two to the rating - even with the hideous dialog. There isn't a lot more to the movie, so I'll close with the suggestion that if you want to see a movie similar in many ways to this one, yet superior in every way, check out "Pressure"(2015) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3029476/

• Useless

  shreeree2017-03-25

  It's been a while since I watched a film that just ticked me off. I'm thinking foreigners must think Americans are bullying idiots if they have movies like this and our current politics to go by. This is a "Why Did I Bother" film. First thought is who choose to take a civilian on a covert mission? Would they have had to kill anyway because of what he's seen and heard while down there? Otherwise it's not likely to be found if no one saw it go down in the first place and if they had, they would have salvaged it before America came in to save the day. Also, their is two likable character in the movie of four people and of course they both die just because of film directors budget cuts or a "oh, well let's wrap this up and forget it not having any substance" attitude. Knew one of the likable character was dead when he started easing her from any guilt. Look this witch has every reason to feel guilt for all her bad decision, starting with lying to a civilian and using them. All I could think in the end was good, I hope she suffers and die slowly. I guess you can see by my review, I did not like this film and it wasn't the actors. The actors did fine with what they were working with. No, there was just not enough debt of importance written into the situation to make it worth dying for. So you're thinking, just go back get a better sub now that you know what you are dealing with and go back later. This is how I would have written it: The owner of the submarine should have lied to them about how great his submarine is to get there money, like the Captain in JAWS and the Captain in ANACONDA and they get on it and find out it's a lemon and proceed with the story. But this is a very honest man, he explains several time how his ship is old and has to be treated so gently they couldn't even wear their boots in it. It would have given her a reason to be make bad judgment calls, as it stood you're thinking she is not intelligent enough to be a high rank an official as she is pretending to be. So everything that takes place after his dire warning about the delicate should be retired sub was just stuff that ticks you off.

• It's a struggle for survival watching this

  gav_c2017-09-15

  If I judge Navy seals and spec ops on this movie they are made up of crying, incompetent, babies, absolutely no idea the director of this movie. Basically a movie based on a very bad decision by the female commander of the op which gets the entire crew killed. Even after repeated warnings not to blow up the UAV, It's like the director had a brain fart and ran out of ideas and thought sod it let's blow some stuff up and we will take it from there. As for the ending OMG!!!! Worst ending ever.

• Decent deep sea thriller......

  s32761692017-03-22

  The Chamber is a deep sea thriller, that's surprisingly watchable. The premise is a simple one and in spite of the "confinement" this films premise is built upon, it works quite well. Take a group of US military types on a secret mission, throw in a Swedish submariner and there you have it. This film is carefully paced and builds the tension well. The other reason it works, is the quality acting and interplay between the cast members. In short, not an easy film to make well but that's exactly what you have with The Chamber. Seven out of ten from me.