He stops there after having learned that his son, Nick, a recently graduated IT engineer has met a girl and lives in Croatia; they have planned to meet in Paris.

In Budapest, Ben challenges Evgeny, a FSB officer, who tells him that Farrah was a supervisor of foreign agents and hid things from him.

[7] The Guardian wrote, "In the absence of any feel for intrigue, not least the potential intricacies of a husband-and-wife spook team, Johnson shuffles a deck of espionage-film cliches largely at random – including frequent appearances for the card in which someone points out that, in this world, can you really know anyone?

"[9] and Screen Rant wrote, "Eckhart's latest is Chief of Station, where his ex-CIA agent chases down the people responsible for his wife's death.

The Jesse V. Johnson-directed action film co-stars Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer and is a slower burn in terms of setpieces compared to The Bricklayer.

Even so, Eckhart's Chief of Station is an enjoyable slice of action cinema, with the actor doing all the fistfights, gun battles and car chases required of the genre".