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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 3629
Released: February 19, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After a deadly bank heist Detectives Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) and Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe) are drawn into a mysteriouscase where nothing is what it seems. Pulling the strings is a criminal mastermind (Wesley Snipes) who seems to kill without warningor reason. Abound with random acts of violence and deception - the only hope for survival is finding an order to the chaosSystem Requirements:Running Time: 106 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: R UPC: 031398224594 Manufacturer No: 22459
Description of Chaos:
An action-heavy thriller with a metaphysical twist, Chaos pits action stars of the past (Wesley Snipes) and present (Jason Statham from The Transporter) against each other in a race to uncover the truth behind a seemingly perfect heist. Statham (sporting a come-and-go American accent) is a troubled cop who is called out by Snipes' bank robber to stop him from executing a scheme that will end with not only all participants evading capture, but no money removed from the vaults. It's an engaging premise, and one made moderately more so by Snipes' interest in chaos theory, and director Tony Giglio orchestrates the action with a professional hand. Unfortunately, the pieces fall together in an entirely predictable manner, which stranded the leads (as well as Ryan Phillippe as Statham's rookie partner) in an overly familiar story and undermines the novel spin of Snipes' plan. Those looking for no-frills entertainment, or longtime fans of Statham and Snipes, will find it an agreeable timewaster. --Paul Gaita
Chaos Reviews:
Chaos, but predictable chaos 
2008-08-09 - Warning! You will probably know like I did who is involved in the heist well before the ending. In fact it seems to drag when one of the main characters is killed off and you will figure they aren't really dead and you of course are right. At first you may think they are playing possum to catch the bad guy or you may figure they are in cahoots with the bad guy since they survived. I am not saying I didn't watch three quarters of the movie because it has reasonably good acting. What I am saying is it is as though they dropped the ball and you will feel like you were cheated out of good ending. It feels like they took several other action movies and threw them together. I suggest as a rental, but not to purchase until after you see it. Good quality DVD, mediocre replayability. If you enjoyed this catch "Inside Man" and "The Italian Job", both far superior movies. - C. Luster
a huge disappointment of a movie 
2008-07-14 - Ok, wesley snipes has done some pretty bad movies lately including this one, but what on earth was Jason Statham doing in this terrible film? even he couldn't save this disaster. This movie is very slow paced and lacks action, It is more of a crime drama than an action movie but even the drama lacked suspense and mystery and i literaly had to force myself to keep watching the movie because i felt bored and uninterested.
This movie has an average star rating of almost 4 starts, don't fall for the hype!, if you want to see a good recent crime drama movie go watch jean-claude van-damme's "until death", Its a much better movie.
The Seattle Connection
2008-07-07 - Tony Giglio directed "In Enemy Hands." I haven't seen it. In the DVD extras, he said he wanted to make a film that was like "The French Connection," a homage to 70s action films that had great car chases, entertaining while made for a relatively low budget. He accomplished his goal. "Chaos" doesn't challenge you in any emotional way. It's more of a mystery than an action film, trying to figure out who done it.
Jason Statham is now a major action star. I also watched him this weekend in Revolver. This film won't make me forget "The Transporter" which I liked because of its blend of action and romance. There really isn't that much romance going on in this film. Statham is about like he is in the other films I've seen, always interesting, but not that different.
Ryan Phillippe plays Detective Shane Dekker. Phillippe was in Breach (Widescreen Edition), the Academy Award winning Crash (Widescreen Edition) & Gosford Park. His intensity is impressive. There's one scene where he listening to another person on the phone who gets important information. He slams his hand down on the desk and yells, "Yes!" I thought, "Now, that's over the top" & rewound it, but he actually looks pretty good. He appears pretty banged up and leaves blood on the side of his head between locations. One imagines that they were short of towels and water in Seattle.
Wesley Snipes won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for "One Night Stand" in 1997. He does a good job in this picture, but most likely won't be picking up a statue. I liked his wisecracking on the phone from the bank, only to hear the altered voice sound like a garbled monotone. In the DVD extras, he said he didn't want his fight scenes to look like "Blade." I think he did that.
Henry Czerny from The Pink Panther (Special Edition) & The Ice Storm does a good job as the thickheaded Captain Martin Jenkins. He's so incredibly shortsighted that one wonders how he got to be the leader.
Justine Waddell who starred in TV's "The Mystery of Natalie Wood" plays Detective Teddy Balloway. She's having an affair with the captain and used to sleep with Statham's Quentin Conner. She's a pretty confused girl as far as relationships, and wouldn't you know that she didn't turn off her cell phone?!?
Ty Olsson who I've been watching as Sam on TV's "Men In Trees," plays the bad guy who winds up in the hospital. He does a good job of being very different, making me stretch to connect him with television. There's also a small part done well by the bank manager Rob LaBelle who has appeared in many television series like "The 4400" & "The Dead Zone."
"Chaos" is not the most original of films, nor does it intend to be. It's an interesting evening's entertainment. I saw it at a sidewalk sale, which prompted me renting it. I didn't go back to the sidewalk. But I liked it well enough. Enjoy!
Worst movie since Blade 3 
2008-07-05 - Horrible acting all around, terrible over emphisis on bad scripts. I will never get back the 45 minutes I wasted before I stopped watching the movie.
Worse than Contact
2008-05-23 - I'm a Jason Statham fan, and have enjoyed most of his movies, but this cinematic abortion is so horrible I'm in shock that not only was Jason Statham invovled in it, but Wesley Snipes, and Ryan Phillippe as well. I'll start it off with the good stuff. The story was good and it had a lot of twists. Some of the ones that needed to be good were but, most were predictable... That's it. The acting was dead pan through out the cast except for the news reporter at the start of the movie who seemed to be the only person who was trying. It probably had a lot to do with the abismal script.
The writers don't seem to have ever learned the word subtle because all they do is beat you over the head with "hints" and things that will be important later. It's like a crappy magician saying look over there to do their magic verses one who uses subtle misdirection to pull it off. In addition to that the writers don't know how to write women at all. There's a scene where a female character trhows herslef at Ryan Phillippe after having just met him in a way that would have gotten her fired from any job except phone sex operator, and as my wife pointed out, he's not hot enough for most girls to do that. Sorry Ryan. Also any writer that is so dumb they use the phrase "it's not rocket surgery." as a serious statement and not a joke needs to be beaten with a lead pipe. While being the most hillarious moment in the moviethe dead pan acting makes it seem as though it was a serious statement.
Another personal beef I have with this movie is that Jason Statham's character who is from the nort west hates the Pac 10 and thinks it's over rated. You don't EVER hear someone in the NW say that about the Pac 10. We're very loyal to our schools and the only place I've ever heard something like that is from other conferences that get butt hurt that the Pac 10 consistantly has teams in the top 25. While we're on the subject of the North West, lets talk about the amazing stock footage they used for the city too. So it's set in Seattle, but they don't use stock footage of Seattle. Not once. On top of that it's got that grainy VHS look like they taped it off a movie on HBO in the 80s and were saving it for a special occasion. Also for an action movie it didn't have very much action, and when it was present the fighting was poorly coreographed.
The fight scene where they break a mirror in a bathroom you can see the guy getting thrown into the mirror look over his shoulder to make sure he's lined up right, also you can see that the mirror is already broken from a previous attempt. I'm not one of those guys who freeze frames his way through movies, the mistakes were that glaring. This is hands down the worst movei I've ever seen. Go watch the transporter, or crank, or any of his other movies, but skip this attrocity.
