Chaos |  | Director: Tony Giglio
Actors: Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes, Ryan Phillippe, Justine Waddell, Henry Czerny
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 11995
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 22459
UPC: 031398224594
EAN: 0031398224594
ASIN: B0010YVCB6
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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An action-heavy thriller with a metaphysical twist, Chaos pits action stars of the past (Wesley Snipes) and present (Jason Statham from The Transporter) against each other in a race to uncover the truth behind a seemingly perfect heist. Statham (sporting a come-and-go American accent) is a troubled cop who is called out by Snipes' bank robber to stop him from executing a scheme that will end with not only all participants evading capture, but no money removed from the vaults. It's an engaging premise, and one made moderately more so by Snipes' interest in chaos theory, and director Tony Giglio orchestrates the action with a professional hand. Unfortunately, the pieces fall together in an entirely predictable manner, which stranded the leads (as well as Ryan Phillippe as Statham's rookie partner) in an overly familiar story and undermines the novel spin of Snipes' plan. Those looking for no-frills entertainment, or longtime fans of Statham and Snipes, will find it an agreeable timewaster. --Paul Gaita
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 Chaos January 1, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Action, action, action. This is all Jason Statham really truly knows. And like a few other movies he has done (War, Crank), there is a suprise ending to the whole thing. And personally, this suprise ending was rather good. It's a plot twister and its definately a Statham style movie.
 Don't waste your time...and I'm a Statham fan December 1, 2009
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
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.
 Homage to 70s Cop Flicks Strictly Routine... October 17, 2009
Benjamin J Burgraff (Las Vegas)
Director Tony Giglio says, in the 'Making Of' Special Feature for "Chaos", that he wanted to recapture the spirit and gritty, pre-CGI 'look' of the great 'Cop' movies of the 1970s ("The French Connection", "The Seven-Ups", etc.), and technically, he succeeds, quite admirably...but the film lacks equally important factors to the earlier films' success; characters you care about, and a truly novel 'spin' to the traditional plotline. "Chaos" is predictable, with little character development, relying on the stars' established screen personas to carry the story, and the end result is routine, at best.
When a team of masked criminals rob a major Seattle bank, the leader (a swaggering Wesley Snipes) informs the police surrounding the bank that he wants disgraced cop Jason Statham to serve as the negotiator. Statham, who'd been involved in an earlier, fatal hostage negotiation, is pulled off suspension, teamed up with brilliant young detective Ryan Phillippe, and attempts to resolve the situation...but things fall apart, explosively, and the gang escapes in the fire and smoke. As the press again berates Statham, Phillippe begins putting the pieces together, revealing a far more complex scheme than a simple robbery...leading to a 'surprising' climactic revelation (which you'll figure out long before he does!)
The film isn't terrible (there's one really good chase, early in the film), but as you've likely seen all this before, it isn't terribly involving, either. Phillippe takes the acting honors, Statham gets in a few good one-liners (but less of his 'signature' physical action than his fans may like), and Snipes mugs his way through another 'villainous' role.
It should have been better!
Simply Dull March 29, 2009
Mark Eremite (Seoul, South Korea)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Good action movie! March 8, 2009
Maria Augusto (Santos, Brazil)
It's the first Jason Statham movie I watched. In my opinion, it's a good police story involving a bank robbery in Seattle. Jason is Det Quentin Conners, who after being suspended due to a wrong action during a hostage rescue, is called back to work in this case. His new partner is Det Shane Dekker played by Ryan Philippe, young but with a privileged intelligence. Even though we might call it an action movie, there is much twists and turns in the plot as well as a clever plan to get money from the bank in an unusual and modern way, which riddle Shane is willing to solve against the bad guy Lorenz, played by Wesley Snipes. Watch for the smart story and some very surprising scenes. Enjoy!
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