“The Chain” (** out of four) was a murky thriller about a young former doctor (John Patrick Amedori) who enlists the assistance of a suicide company for his elderly and violent father (Ray Wise) but finds that he must kill someone first and this takes its toll on his mental and psychological well-being as he decides whether to take part in this and flashes back to his difficult childhood. Well-acted but overdone and unpleasant movie full of flashbacks and repeated scenes of verbal and physical abuse. Wise is good playing more-or-less the same role he played in “Twin Peaks” but Madeline Zima and Adrienne Barbeau are wasted in minor roles.