Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Floated2 Chain Reaction is a rather older action-film of the 1990's period. Starring a fleshy Keanu Reeves playing a brilliant machinist who finds a way to turn pure hydrogen into energy; when he's framed for murder, he goes on the run with a colleague (Rachel Weisz). Chain Reaction is a thinly veiled work, though it isn't as bad nor good. This film is decent at best is overall a dull film. The action isn't as exciting or suspenseful as one would like. The chase sequences are competently orchestrated, as are the explosions (the beginning explosion, which levels eight blocks of Chicago, is particularly impressive), and Morgan Freeman does his best as Reeves's enigmatic, cigar-smoking mentor yet the cigar is never lit. The film is relatively also confusing at times and the end result is quite what one would expect from a film as this. Chain Reaction is mainly a forgettable film.

Rocketeer_Raccoon Considering that this film was directed by Andrew Davis who before this directed the hit film the Fugitive (1993), you would have thought he ought to put a lot of effort to making Chain Reaction to be just as great as the Fugitive. Unfortunately Chain Reaction just comes off as being a very plain mediocre film. When I originally first saw this film I had no clue what it was about but now since seeing it with a better perspective I now know what it's about, I suppose the story in this does work well but this film does have it's problems, I'm not saying this film is bad as it's watchable but it's very plain.The first problem in this film that comes to my mind is the music soundtrack, oh my gosh, talk about the wrong type of music for your film. Having the right music for your film is extremely important and the people that were behind the films musical design got it all completely wrong. In hindsight this is a chase film where the hero is wrongly accused of something he didn't do and is being chased by the police, but the scenes themselves are just "plain" and could have been better. I know I keep using the word plain but when I say this I don't mean it in a bad way, like I said the story does work well.Overall conclusion, it's a mediocre action film that's not bad but it's it's just...well...plain.

kai ringler One of my favorite movies,, it has everything for me , action, suspense,, great scenery ,, location,, nice camera work,, Keanu Reeves knocks it out of the park,, a bunch of students make a discovery that could change the way we get our power.. Morgan Freeman plays an interesting character,, but eventually we learn that he's not a great guy,, the idea of cold fusion is introduced in the movie ,, and our hero,, Eddie,, spends the whole movie running from Morgan Freeman's henchman,, the FBI,, the police,, and the alphabet soup of the government,, the movie is set in Chicago in the middle of winter, with lot's of snow on the ground,, I really couldn't find anything wrong with the movie,, I 've watched this several times,, and will keep on watching this movie,, great movie,, lot's of fun,,

Twins65 Just watched the big budget CHAIN REACTION on the Reelz channel, and it all made for a very underwhelming Sat. night. Some sort of convoluted plot about alternative fuel which didn't make a whole bunch of sense was the back drop to Keanu Reeves & Rachel Weisz running everywhere around Chicago and So. Wisconsin in January of 1996.It certainly was fun picking out Chicago bit actors of the era, including Chelcie Ross, a very young and skinny Michael Shannon (or as I know him now, Nelson Van Alden from "Boardwalk Empire"), John Cusack's late father, and even a couple of CBS2 Chicago veteran investigative reporters, Pam Zekman and John Drummond. The best parts were the location shots at Williams Bay on frozen Lake Geneva Wisc., including the inside of the Yerkes Observatory and Keanu spinning around on an "everglades like" hovercraft just missing some 'Sconnie fish houses.But all in all, I'd say take a pass on CHAIN REACTION unless nothing else is on.