Chaos
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Movie Reviews of Chaos
Movie Review: Not Bad For A Rental
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was decent. It had several unexpected twists to the story. It was worth the $1.49 I paid to rent it. I wouldn't buy it though.Movie Review: Simply Dull
Summary: 2 Stars
After watching this film, I exited the theatre (this title was just released in Korean theaters) and hit shuffle on my iPod, which currently has a little over 8000 songs on it. The first song to pop up was "Chaos" by U.N.K.L.E. off of their album, Psyence Fiction. No fooling. Aside from the fact that it was an extraordinary coincidence, I also mention this because it was the most entertaining part of my movie-going experience, and it happened after the flick was over.
The song is only okay, but it's certainly better than the film, a tepid "action" movie that claims to have a story built on the Chaos Theory once made so famous by Jeff Goldblum's character from Jurassic Park. The idea is that chaos is never truly random, and that in even the most cluttered of incidents, patterns emerge.
The theory is debatable, especially if this movie is meant to be one of its proponents. After some exposition-heavy credits, several somber looking bank robbers (led by Wesley Snipes) take over a major branch of American Global in Seattle. When hostage negotiations begin, the bad guys demand that disgraced officer Conners (Statham) be given the helm. Unfortunately, as soon as he's put in charge, things go sideways.
Aiding Conners is a newly appointed detective played by Ryan Phillipe, who refuses to act in every scene, relying almost exclusively on this pouty, petulant look he can do with his poofy lips. Phillipe's character begins to steadily assemble the clues, sorting through the baffling array of red herrings to some supposed truth about chaos that the bad guys may or may not be trying to prove. Scattered about the meandering script are a few lukewarm "action" sequences (including one of the dullest vehicle chases I've seen in a long while) and lots and lots of cringe-worthy dialogue. In fact, when one of the officers announces that "he wasn't just a better cop than you; he was also a better man," I suddenly realized I was watching a bad movie.
In addition to all of this, there are stupid emotional back stories, unbelievable twists of misdirection, and even some insulting flashbacks as Phillipe puzzles it all out, in case the audience still doesn't get it. Chaos, as a condition, can have its crafty corners and intriguing entanglements. It can, in its own way, be beautiful. In fact, of all the adjectives I think of when chaos comes to mind, "boring" is none of them, which makes me think this film is seriously misnamed.
Movie Review: Laughable
Summary: 2 Stars
Sometimes I cannot believe what Hollywood gives the green light. Sure, this is just an action flick and I can lower my expectations accordingly. Still, even with lowering the bar this movie is unintentionally funny. For example, when Ryan Phillipe is asked why he became a cop, Ryan responds "To finish what my dad started." Seriously, that's in the movie! And there is all the wacky back-story melodrama one might expect from a high school play thrown in, overflowing even the gaudiest cliche ridden hopes of the untalented. Deserving of a full bowl of raspberries is Wesley Snipes. His goofy mugging at the camera is epic and truly hysterical. Sometimes, even when spouting the worst of dialogues, the action in an action movie displays some cause for bringing a movie to completion. Not so, here. The action is not bad, per se, but the obvious stunt doubles and quick edits away from the action reveal a level of competence that can only aspire to mediocrity. Indeed, the action is mediocre.
Saving the movie for me is Jason Statham whom I find very watchable in action roles, even if his acting is never particularly nuanced. Lastly, I could not take my eyes off of Justine Waddell! Who is this woman?! I IMDB'd her, and found her body of work. She needs to be on the screen much more often.
Movie Review: Don't waste your time...and I'm a Statham fan
Summary: 2 Stars
2.2 stars
Bah, humbug. What a waste of time. If you have any feel for quality crime thrillers at all, you've got to laugh at this, in all the wrong ways.
Bad, hackneyed script. Wooden performances in general. Miserable direction; you can tell a bad director when every line out of everyone's mouth feels forced. This felt at nearly all times like a bad tv movie-of-the-week. I like Statham but he's wasted here and clearly needs a director with a better feel for realism. Snipes is ok and Phillippe is too, but his role is overwritten and just seems fake. I didn't buy one second of this movie.
Sure, there's a twist at the end, but when nothing that came before makes you care about the tale or the players, what's the difference? There are so many flicks of this ilk out there, and I'd recommend most of them before this insipid jello.
Passola.
Movie Review: a huge disappointment of a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
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.