The President's Man: A Line in the Sand (2002) (TV)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Eric Norris

Writers (WGA):

Bob Gookin (characters)
John Lansing (written by) ...

Release Date:

20 January 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Action | Thriller

Tagline:

Terrorism just met its worst enemy.

Plot:

A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspected of planning to set off a nuclear device in the U.S. |

Plot Keywords:

Terrorist | President | Islam | Afghanistan | General

Cast

Chuck Norris	...	Joshua McCord
Judson Mills	...	Deke Slater
Jennifer Tung	...	Que McCord
Roxanne Hart	...	Lydia Mayfield
Joel Swetow	...	Abdul Rashid
Ali Afshar	...	Abir Rashid (as Alex Dodd)
Thom Barry	...	Gen. Gates
Bruce Nozick
Maz Jobrani	...	Ali Faisal
Kay Bailey Hutchison	...	Herself
Philip Casnoff	...	Jack Stanton
Robert Urich	...	President Adam Mayfield
Chino Binamo	...	Guard #1
Dameon Clarke	...	Andy Shelby
Dan Flannery	...	Carter McLain, CIA Director

Runtime:

Brazil:90 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Texas, USA

Company:

Norris Brothers Entertainment

Trivia:

Originally sub-titled Ground Zero but was changed after the 9/11 attacks.

Movie Connections:

Follows The President's Man (2000) (TV)

This was really bad!

You know, as much as I like Chuck Norris and the charity and motivational work he does, this made for TV movie really reeked of bad writing, directing and event action...I can tell as most here would agree that this "show" was made as cheaply as it could have been with a lot of high-tech archival footage from NASA, the U.S. military, and a few other sources like CNN and the like, for a current events style appearance to what has happened in this country over the last 6 months since September 11th...This show made no real point, it had unrealistic action, and it wasn't even really funny if they had tried to make it as such??? Who could tell that, unless they were part of the crew...

I have to say that this also looked like they tried to get it "in the can" as soon as they could to release it to the network to "fill-in" some time slot after the playoff games, and even had to get the color announcer on the CBS affiliate to say something to the effect of: "I bet Chuck will kick some serious butt, tonight!" I knew from right there this was going to be really bad...So we went over to a friends house that evening hoping to avoid it after the game, but their kids got hooked into it...sigh...Too bad...But after watching it for a while, it got me to thinking "how bad could this really get...???"

But that is why I had to post this...Anyone who sees this in the up coming years will know this to be true if you got hooked into it...Sorry, we couldn't warn you before hand...

My advice to Chuck...Love your style man, but your programs really stink...If I were you, I'd drop those hack you work with, and get back to what you know about...

Good luck! NT4U