| Chain Reaction | | Cast : | Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman | | Director : | Andrew Davis | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | August 02, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | May 22, 2001 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Dynamic and Explosive, a great story about corruption! | Content
 | ...Not to mention greed. Reeves is fabulous in his role. I loved this movie and have watched it several times, it has the chase, the hunt, the danger, mystery, intrigue, and justice all rolled up into one. A great modern day action drama that you should see if you have not seen it already!
Just as the university research team is about to prove that their new technique will permit water to be used as a fuel, their laboratory is sabotaged and the lab manager is killed. Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) stumbles onto the scene and manages not only to witness the sabotage, but to escape from it. When he tries to talk about it to authorities, he discovers that they think he and the other project survivors committed the crime. In reality, a group of energy companies have conspired with interested parties in the government to completely erase all notion of the existence of a way to use water as fuel. The project sponsor (Morgan Freeman) wants Eddie to turn himself in, but before he can do that, he must find enough evidence to clear himself and his friends. But in order to succeed, Eddie must avoid assassination attempts by the real perpetrators. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 24, 2005 | | Summary | exploding with suspense and intriguing all at once | Content
| the stars are amazing
the plot is quite interesting
the ending is amazing
the whole movie is just shocking in how great it is at what it gets at and presents
I'm quite happy I have this on dvd
it will be seen having been played more times when I can play it in my dvd player. Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman are bright as can be in their roles. an amazing movie. even the title of the movie made me wonder what the movie was really about when I first put it in my player. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 07, 2004 | | Summary | Fun, but scientifically illiterate | Content
| The people who put this flick together apparently don't understand the difference between combustion and nuclear fusion. I don't want to sound like a Puritan here, but come on! They shouldn't need a science advisor on the set to know something as simple as this ... all they need is somebody with a high school education.
Having said that, the movie wasn't completely worthless. After I got over my initial irritation during the first ten minutes, I sort of got into the movie. Some of the chases were sort of fun, and the special effects were pretty cool. Morgan Freeman is always cool, even if he seems to play pretty much the same character in every movie. Keanu Reeves did a marginal job, which for him is an improvement (we all love the guy, but even he knows that he can't act).
Near the end, there is more of the weird hydrogen combustion - nuclear fusion, which brought back initial irritation. Do these people in Hollywood drop out of school after the sixth grade? Duh! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 08, 2004 | | Summary | 'I'm in the middle of a chain reaction . . .' | Content
| Why the hell would you name a film after a Diana Ross classic? (Or a Steps 'classic', depending what generation you're from!) OK, so it's given a rather obvious title, due to the fact the film jumps from one event to another. None of these events have any links, and are all highly unlikely and stupid to boot. Morgan Freeman is the true star of this movie, although the constant cigar that he carries around does get a bit annoying. Especially since it's rarely lit. Keanu Reeves seems to bulk up for certain films (Speed, Matrix), and then all the muscle turns to flab, cos he looks like he generally pigs out. He's unkempt, chubby, unshaven - basically everything you would find UNsexy in a man! And the 'relationship' between his character and Rachel Weisz's character is very unbelievable. There is absolutely no chemistry between the characters, and I believe that off screen, they didn't speak to each other. It's highly believable that they didn't spend any time together, so that results in no chemistry. Now if you were watch to Speed - loads of chemistry between Keanu & Sandra Bullock. This film is not worth the time or the money - oops, says she who bought it! But then again, I'm a Keanu Reeves fan. If you can't stand the sight of Keanu Reeves, this film is for you to watch once, slag off every time his name gets mentioned, and instantly forget. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 26, 2003 | | Summary | Finally: A Movie about Free Energy | Content
| As one who is involved in the free energy field, and about ready to release a working technology to the world, I was delighted to see this movie. It portrays well that things are not as they seem, and that there are shadow conspiracies that at times run the show more than our own elected government does. To someone who doesn't believe in free energy, this movie might seem contrived and corny. But I will tell you that from the perspective of one who is immersed in it, and knows of viable technologies that are about to be released, the movie does a fantastic job in its portrayal of the dynamics involved. My critique of the movie would be of two things: the portrayal of the hydrogen reactor process, and of the scene where Reeves and Weisz get shot out of a mine shaft and then drop back down in on a cable. Any human being would have probably been killed, yet they didn't even have a broken bone or even a cut. Their hydrogen reactor looked like something from a decades old Frankenstein movie. It seems they could have been more convincing. They make hydrogen power look as though it will be enormously complex to extract. In reality, my hunch is that when we crack the secret it will not be that complex. Otherwise, it was a fantastic movie. |
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