Overrated and overhyped

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Blistering performances.

Director William Kaufman's "One in the Chamber" is a nimble, respectable, bullet-riddled, little shoot'em up, with Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and "Expendables" star Dolph Lundgren as two hired trouble-shooters gunning for each other in the middle of a Russian mob war in post-Socialist Prague. About an hour into the action, Cuba and Dolph mix it up in a reasonably exciting fight, with Cuba delivering spinning kills a la Jean Claude Van Damme. The opposing sides of the Czech mob war are headed up by genre regular Louis Mandylor and Andrew Bicknell. Mikhail Suverov (Andrew Bicknell) and brother Bobby (Leo Gregory) hire Ray Carver (Cuba Gooding Jr.) to rub out Vlad Tavanian (Alin Panc) and Demyan Ivanov (Louis Mandylor), but Ray misses Demyan. This is one of the early scenes in "One in the Chamber" and Cuba is ice cool as an assassin with a .50 caliber sniper rifle who nails what he shoots at until Demyan seizes an innocent bystander of a girl as a shield. Demyan hires a troubleshooter called the Wolf, Aleksey Andreev (Dolph Lundgren), to eliminate the Suverovs. Ray is haunted by a job where he killed a man perusing the Bible and then refused to kill a small girl. He runs across this girl and she recognizes her family Bible. Things get complicated when Mikhail abducts Janice Knowles (Claudia Bassols) and Ray goes after them. Kaufman stages the firefights well enough and the Romanian scenery is diverting. The narrative is strictly formulaic, but "One in the Chamber" is tolerably entertaining nonsense. Dolph steals the show with his larger-than-life hit-man in a Hawaii shirt and a fedora. For the record, Ray has the chance to kill Aleksey, but he refuses to, and Aleksey visits him at fade-out to ask why. Ray explains that he wasn't paid to kill him. The two vow to join forces in the future. Louis Mandylor makes a good psychotic villain.

Another movie filmed in Romania, even in Brasov the town that I was born and live for twenty-five years but still this fact doesn't save this not even the few cars explosions in it. It's just the same scenario with mobster that seeks revenge for the death of their sons, customary shooting, a few tender scenes involving some beautiful girls that plays the role of the lover of one of the mobsters. It has the same elements seen in 6 Bullets and Assassination Games with Jean-Claude Van Damme, movies also shot in Romania.So, in conclusion it's not worth your time this filling movie with the same scenarios and story that we are all ready use to.

One in the Chamber movie review – One in the Chamber is a 2012 Action movie staring Dolph Lundgren (Expendables 2, Command Performance, Icarus) and Cuba Gooding Jr. "A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy." The blurb pretty much says it all. Lundgren plays Alexie, or the Wolf, A freelance hit-man. He is contracted by a Russian mafia family boss to destroy another rival family after their first hit-man failed to eliminate all the targets. Enter Cuba Gooding Jr. Gun fights, knife fights, fist fights and explosions ensue and the two rival hit men face off.Cuba Gooding Jr plays a good role, his age has helped him 'sell' that hit-man look and he slips into the role nicely, he is physically fit and quick, allowing me suspend my disbelief enough to able to accept him in the role. His character appears to be pieced together haphazardly, there is a cutscene at the beginning that shows a guy being shot whilst holding a bible with a young girl watching. Gooding Jr has this bible and appears to be stalking a mid-20′s woman that is inferred to be the girl from the cutscene. It turns out she is the girl from cutscene and that Gooding Jr is trying to apologise to her for executing here daddy. It doesn't go well.Lundgren is as fierce as ever as the lone-hit-man Wolf but what really makes the role is the character itself. He is regarded as faery tale around Eastern Europe because he is a ghost, its difficult to imagine Lundgren as inconspicuous. The mafia family he is sent to destroy soon realise he is no Humpty-Dumpty and begin to wish they could all just live happily ever after.The addition of Billy Murray as Gooding Jr's handler is brilliance because his delivery is always so good. You can really imagine him in the role he plays and he carries it all off very well.The plot is weak in places, the underlying 'dad-was-executed' story arc is confusing and never explained but the Russian mob war is executed with grace. Ludgren's character is priceless and had this been an English movie I can see Vinny Jones as the star. The action is good too with some great gun fights and car bombs. Although, there are numerous times where people are firing automatics in broad daylight and no-one seems to care, there are also some hand grenades involved that the Police don't seem too bothered about!On the whole I really enjoyed it. Lundgren and Murray were the mainstays of the movie because their characters were so well developed, Gooding Jr acted his role well but the character was weak.One in the Chamber movieGive it a watch!

Over the last few years, it seems that Cuba Gooding Jr. has been downgraded to the straight to video action market. He has had numerous films hit the shelves out of nowhere, but they are all a far cry from his Oscar winning A-list days. Dolph Lundgren has been doing them for years with only a couple forays into the big screen lately with the Expendables series. Their latest One in the Chamber throws these two guys together in an assassin cat and mouse game, but can they deliver something worth checking out or just another forgettable actioner.One in the Chamber follows an assassin playing both sides of the Russian mob. When he fails to complete a hit, another assassin is called in to finish the job and him. This is a pretty simple film with very little plot, but to be honest not much is needed to make it work. The little bit of story they try to force on you outside of the assassins story fills unnecessary and out of place. Lundgren pretty much plays the same character from the Expendables films and does so with the fun stiff charm he somehow brings along with it. He seems to be having a good time stealing the show every time he steps on screen. The same can't be said for Gooding who does a fine job with his character, but just seems to really not be having any fun doing it. This has been a trend with his last few films that leads you to wonder if he is just delivering so much anger to bring out the characters or is really just not feeling it anymore. Either way, the character works decently for this film as he really needs very little emotion or feelings other than the need and ability to kill and there is no shortage of that here. There are a lot of old school shoot outs in this film that continues to up the body count very similar to the action films from the 90's. There is even and fight between Gooding and Lundgren that seems a bit far-fetched, but manages to work on some level.This isn't a great movie by any means, but it is one that renters are sure to get exactly what they think from it, action. If you like either of these guys or just mindless action films, then check this film out its worth a rent.http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-dallas/bobby-blakey