Called to Duty

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.

This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, the writing was terrible, the acting horrendous and I don't care what the producers, director, writers, everyone involved in this garbage intended, it is seriously insulting to the men and women in the armed services. These people should be ashamed of themselves and not allowed to do anything in film again, in spite of the fact that they're clearly intending to do a sequel. Rather than ratings of 1-10 (should really be 0-10) you should allow for negative ratings because this movie is absolute junk, a waste of time, ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WATCH THIS UTTER GARBAGE!

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.

At the end of this movie, they honour the WASP's (WW2 female aviators). I guess WASP was an acronym for the movie. Not since the Valley of the Sasquatch, have I seen such a bad movie but at least I laughed at how bad the Sasquatch costume was. The plot is far reaching, yes it reaches so low it would be difficult to go any lower. The acting was awful, the holes in the plot you could fly a plane through it and let's be honest there was nothing good about this movie.

Not sure what the early reviewers were watching but it was not this movie. Do not waste your time, do not think it gets better and do not pay for it. Even worse they left it open for a sequel - yippee!

Within the first few minutes you know this is going to be something you wish you never started, a couple of Russian MIGs fly within 20 feet of the deck of an American Aircraft carrier, and all these ladies are standing around mass debating over what color nail polish goes with their F18's, "oh look Russian MIGs, to our F18's girls" and the music goes...na na na na na na na na Top Dumb. A few minutes of stock footage follows showing some aerial combat, that doesn't seem to match what is taking place, so much banter and arguing about tactics, "you go left, I'll go right, you dive and we'll sneak up behind them....but you'll kill us all..no, no trust me" a verbal high 5, "girl power (to the tune of ghostbusters) but alas... one gets hit by a Korean missile,Then a bunch of dialogue from a bunch of people in a war room that is so dumb an inaccurate, that you have to wonder how dumb the enemy is if these guys are a superpower. And then it just goes downhill from there.

None of the cast look like they have any military experience or for that matter acting experience, dialogue is best listened to with the sound off, and best watched while you're doing something else a long way from the TV.

A very good movie for the brain dead!