Chain Reaction

OK let me start out by saying this could have been a cool movie, IF it wasn't a recycled version of the "The Fugitive". OK it's the same supporting cast (playing the same roles), setting, director, production company but come... Full review

The frozen landscapes are impressive. Ice-covered lakes, stark bare tree trunks that look black against the snow. It gets so cold that at night you hear trees crack when their sap freezes. In upstate New York, I used to stare... Full review

A lab technician (Keanu Reeves) and a doctor (Rachel Weisz) are framed for the murder of a scientist who develops a ground breaking pollution free energy plant. On the run for their lives, they meet a seemingly sinister tycoon (played to... Full review

Actually, the above poster is incorrect. Reeves is a machinist in this movie who is helping the scientists build the parts not a scientist. And that matters in this movie because Reeves actually does pretty well for once as an... Full review

Eddie (Keanu Reeves) works on a scientific team that is searching for low-cost energy sources that are good for the environment, too. One day, it seems that such a discovery has been made. Soon after, however, the chief scientist is... Full review

Gee, I guess considering the reviews and the displeased comments, people didn't like this movie. Well, I did. Okay, (and there may be a spoiler or two) so movie fans out there have already seen this story line before: The... Full review

** ATTENTION: POSSIBLE SPOILER ** So, they discover a new, cheap, clean and reliable energy source, and because of that a big and confuse governmental conspiracy is put on the march, under the excuse that the full access to that technology... Full review

I thought that the story line centering around the USA being addicted to oil imports was very good and a subject that we all ignore when the price of gas is reasonable. Using alternative energy sources as a theme should... Full review

Has the same improbability clause of other flicks in the same genre. Notwithstanding, Chain Reaction has excellent lighting and set design. There is overall a strong dependency on team acting and multiple scene rotations. This gives the film a docu-drama... Full review

"Man and woman against the world!!" Okay, maybe it has been done into the ground, and it is the basis of today's and yesterday's rehashed thriller. The welcome difference that "Chain Reaction" gives is in its cast. Morgan Freeman, Keanu... Full review

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The impending disappointment of this supposed action-thriller is foreshadowed at the onset by kicking things off with a boringly mellow title sequence. You'd expect the letters of the words "Chain Reaction" to domino-effect themselves into an adrenaline-pumping mega-explosion or something... ... Full Article

A decent take on the "Heaven & Hell" genre with excellent special effects. It sure looks cool, but it's a cool looking mess. Something great (or at least better) should have come of this. ... Full Article

That sums up the plot of a fair percentage of movies made every year in this country.It sums this one up too. "Chain Reaction" is a tale about a young hero, Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) who stumbles onto the... ... Full Article

ONE OF the responsibilities of a critic is to give the reader some idea of what a given movie is about.But, occasionally, one sees a movie that simply defies any sensible explanation. ... Full Article