Chaos | Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes

Chaos | Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes | Good movie

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Chaos

	Chaos Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes Lions Gate, 2008 average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: R

Chaos

Jason Statham & wesley Snipes are awesome in this action mysery movie. this is such a good film. if you watch this movie you'll have to pay close attention. this movie rocks

Good movie

This is a good movie but definitely not an award winner. If you are a fan of Jason Statham movies you will probably like this one.

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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!

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Chaos, but predictable chaos

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

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