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It's Unstable! Shut It Down!
Chain Reaction, starring Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, and Rachel Weisz; directed by Andrew Davis
After a spectacular explosion--eight blocks of the Windy City disappear in a mushroom cloud--our hero goes on the lam with a cute British physicist named Lily (Rachel Weisz). Eddie and Lily hopscotch across the country from Illinois to Wisconsin to Washington, D.C. Weisz keeps an admirably straight china-doll face, despite the fact that she is obliged to wear red eye shadow (I believe it's called "24-Hour Flu" at the Nordstrom makeup counter) as she tags behind brave Eddie from state to state.
Packed with ridiculous plot points and winningly awful dialogue, Chain Reaction caroms with senseless abandon from one overblown special-effects sequence to the next. Davis (helmsman of the overpraised, vastly popular The Fugitive) seems bent on demonstrating that he couldn't direct traffic at the North Pole; the whole movie has a blocky, unnatural quality. But bad as it is, Chain Reaction is by no means charmless. I look forward, in fact, to stumbling across it some day thirty years from now on Mystery Science Theater 3000--preferably dubbed into Polish, with a Bobby Vinton soundtrack. --Mary Brennan (Rated PG-13 for some intense action and violence.) Cast and Credit List |
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