[.ca] Chain Reaction (Widescreen)

From Amazon.com:
Anyone want to venture a guess that Keanu Reeves was sorry he passed up Speed 2 to make this turkey? Both a ridiculous suspense piece about a renegade intelligence community and an ill-considered hunk of do-gooder agitprop about alternative energy technology, Chain Reaction makes Reeves and almost everyone else involved look about as dumb as dumb can be. Hollywood's own Little Buddha plays a streetwise lab technician who survives an organized assault on his hydrogen-power project. The FBI assumes he's really a spy working for some foreign power, but the truth is that a CIA offshoot is behind the project's funding. Morgan Freeman plays the ramrod-straight company man who sabotages Keanu's excellent experiment, and Rachel Weisz portrays a physicist who goes on the run with the alleged saboteur. Directed by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), who seems more interested in seeing how many absurd places he can mount a chase scene than offering a solid clue as to who these characters are and why we should care about them. --Tom Keogh

Reeves and Freeman keep this at bay:
lacks in some horrible acting and story plots but that doesnt change the fact that Reeves and Freeman did a good job in this one...Chain Reaction is just another movie that has some good quality but lacks out in style as it comes out. Rachel Weiz is ok as the physisist. Her and Reeves should of had a love scene I mean come on Andrew Davis..your more focused on your big action scenes then the love connection of the two..god..even after the Chain Reaction accord..GOD!!

Not half bad:
I expected this movie to be awful. It wasn't. I guess it helps that I'm from Chicago and part of the movie takes place here. Even without that help, it's solid. Keanu Reeves gives his standard good-guy action performance. This movie is done be the same guys that did The Fugitive, and it shows. The movies have a lot of similarities. Rachel Weisz does an admirable job and Morgan Freeman is, well, Morgan Freeman. Always solid. Sure, there's some cheesy dialogue. But you know you're not going in to see Shakespeare. The sound quality of this DVD is excellent. Crank up the subwoofer for the explosions. Picture quality is also well-done. If you don't mind somewhat cheesy action movies, try checking this one out.

Just another Action Flick:
The movie was very formulaic and the escapes performed by the 2 main characters seemed unbelievable. I was also bummed out that there was no romance between the 2 leads. I mean if Keanu is the actor they should have put in a romance, at least thats how I see it. The main thing I liked about the film was the plot surrounding petrol and how it was what the whole world wanted. Wow! This movie reflects alot of what I see now, granted that this is my view I speak of. The scientists have found a way to somehow capture energy from hydrogen, this would solve the problem with pollution and the need to fight over power and control involved with petrol. Well, I hope I am saying this right because I watched the movie a few days ago. So, the movie itself was way to predictable and cliched, but the story line was involving. Lisa Nary

Finally: A Movie about Free Energy:
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.

'I'm in the middle of a chain reaction . . .':
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.