This has a plot to do with Taiwan being recognised by China and USA involvement but it's mainly 'Die Hard' on a ship in the China Seas as our hero Special Agent Michael Connelly (played wanly by Patrick Muldoon) tries to rescue the US president and his 'football' which disappointingly isn't spherical. Not much of a story then but I stayed with it because of the performances; Roy Scheider as the president, beautiful Maria Conchita Alonso as vice-president Valdez, Michael Biehn as the duplicitous Thornton, Ric Young as Ken Fung, Philip Tan as the smiling henchman Wu and Susan Blakely as the president's aide who sadly is hardly in the film. On the whole it was watchable.
Review of Chain of Command
