Brittany (Lovely Joyce Glenn) accidentally shot a hostage, which means that, like every cop should, she’s going to therapy with a doctor named Stephanie (Sarah Pribis). But her boss, Captain Sommers (an unrecognizable Lorenzo Lamas, the Snake Eater himself), wants her back on the streets to help solve the case of a killer who shoves chess pieces into the mouths of his or her victims. In the middle of her PTSD, she’s also trying to rebuild her relationship with her father, Marcus (Dorien Hill), a former chess grand master and judge.
Directed by Jamal Hill and written by Patrice Escoto, this has a killer going for revenge against the men who she feels set her father up. It also has Brittany running out to stop them when she figures out the real killer — you may in minutes — and her cigar-smoking cop boss says, “No, Brittany. Wait for backup,” with all the urgency of a bus driver announcing the next stop. I like the idea that the killer smashes out teeth to jam chess pieces in the mouths of victims, but after that, this gets slow. A lot of sitting at computers and no one is yelling, “Enhance. Enhance! ENHANCE!” Come on. Don’t we still do that?
Someone took the time to share this quote on IMDB: Captain Sommers: There’s been another murder.
Someone else reviewed it there and said, “I am not sure if I like this movie or not.”
You can watch this on Tubi.