Chaos (2005 action film)
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Directed by | Tony Giglio |
Written by | Tony Giglio |
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Cinematography | Richard Greatrex |
Edited by | Sean Barton |
Music by | Trevor Jones |
Production companies | Möbius International Epsilon Motion Pictures Current Entertainment Rampage Entertainment Chaotic Productions Pierce/Williams Entertainment |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | C$30 million[1] (US$16.2 million) |
Box office | US$7 million[3] |
Chaos is a 2005
Plot
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Some time later, Lorenz and four other criminals take hostages in a bank. Lorenz has only one demand, to negotiate with Conners. Conners is reinstated but put under the surveillance of a new partner, the recently-graduated Shane Dekker. Conners is given control of the negotiations, and after a bank teller is shot, he orders a SWAT unit to cut the building's power and go in. During an explosion, the criminals flee during the ensuing panic and chaos.
Dekker and Conners learn more about each other at a local diner, slowly building a friendship, but Dekker disapproves of Conners' "cowboy cop" methods. Dekker explains that during negotiations, Lorenz was making many cryptic references to chaos theory. As they leave to examine new evidence, Conners puts a ten dollar bill on the table for his share of the bill. Dekker swaps the ten for a twenty of his own. A TV camera caught a shot of one of the criminals, who is arrested together with his girlfriend at her home, where banknotes are found with a scent used to mark evidence collected by the police. The banknote serial numbers did not come from that day's robbery, but had been placed in police storage and signed out two weeks earlier by Callo. He is found shot dead in his home, together with incriminating evidence linking him to the heist.
When reviewing video footage from the bank, Dekker notices one corner of the bank is deliberately shielded from view. In that corner, they find the bank regional manager's computer. Fingerprints on the keyboard reveal the identity of a hacker that Conners himself had arrested, but whose conviction was overturned after the shooting on the bridge. He had placed a virus in the bank system that would transfer about a billion $$ in thousands of small transactions around the world. Conners and Dekker want to question the hacker, but he is shot dead by Lorenz, and a gunfight ensues, during which Lorenz manages to escape. Dekker questions the hospitalized bank robber identified in the news footage and finally breaks him when he casually explains the impact of a massive overdose of morphine while slowly injecting something into the suspect's drip. An amazed Conners watches and later calls him a hypocrite. Dekker responds by explaining he only injected more saline solution.
The suspect reveals Lorenz is Scott Curtis, the brother of John shot earlier, and Conners leads a stakeout at an address where all the gang are to meet that night; Scott's house. Forced to go before Scott arrives, a shootout results in both suspects' deaths, and a bomb blows up the building while Conners is inside. Dekker is devastated but realizes that Callo's signature requesting material from the evidence storage was forged by the evidence custody officer, who reveals that Scott is actually York. In a flashback, York stands on the bridge and fires the first shot, killing the hostage in the opening sequence. Tracking Lorenz/York's mobile phone, Dekker surprises York at a diner, and York takes a woman hostage in a reversal of the standoff on the bridge. Dekker chases and eventually kills York.
When Dekker pays for his coffee at the diner, he discovers the banknote Conners used to pay for lunch with is also scented, which means Conners was also involved in taking the money from police evidence. Dekker finds a copy of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in Conners' house, showing he had faked an earlier ignorance of the mathematics. On a hunch, Dekker looks for airline tickets booked in Gleick's name and runs to the airport.
During a mobile call between the now disguised Conners and the searching Dekker at the busy airport, flashbacks reveal how the seemingly unconnected events in the film form a pattern, just as predicted in chaos theory. Conners reveals that he placed his badge on the corpse of one of York's henchmen before the explosion. Conners and York recruited a group of ex-convicts from their past. Callo was framed for being a dirty cop. Conners ends the call, walks casually to a private jet, and takes off while sipping champagne.
Cast
- Jason Statham as Detective Quentin Conners
- Ryan Phillippe as Detective Shane Dekker
- Wesley Snipes as Lorenz / Jason York
- Henry Czerny as Captain Martin Jenkins
- Justine Waddell as Detective Teddy Calloway
- Nicholas Lea as Detective Vincent Durano
- Keegan Connor Tracy as Marnie Rollins
- Jessica Steen as Karen Cross
- John Cassini as Bernie Callo
- Damon Johnson as Brendan Dax
- Paul Perri as Harry Hume
- Natassia Malthe as Gina Lopez
- Ty Olsson as Damon Richards
- Terry Chen as Chris Lei
- Mike Dopud as Lamar Galt
- Rob LaBelle as Bank Manager
- Garvin Cross as SWAT Commander
- Michasha Armstrong as Xander Harrington
- Kim Howey as Lisa Reane
- Gaston Howard as John Curtis
Production
The film was a co-production between the
The film was originally set to be produced by
Release
Screen Gems at one point was attached as the film's theatrical distributor, but a financial deal couldn't be made regarding release prints and advertising between the studio and producers. Eventually Lionsgate picked up the film and went through the same drama with producers, leading to a three-year delay in the film's North American release.[citation needed]
Reception
Michael S. Gant of Metro Silicon Valley wrote, "The plot depends on an impossible chain of coincidences, but there are some decent car chases."[6] Ian Jane of DVD Talk rated it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, "Chaos has a nice twist towards the end but is otherwise riddled with bad action movie clichés and poorly written dialogue."[7] Jeffrey Kauffman, also of DVD Talk, rated it 3/5 stars and wrote, "Chaos isn't a bad film; it just isn't a very good one either."[8] Tom Becker of DVD Verdict wrote, "Chaos isn't a great movie, but it's entertaining and manages to keep you off-kilter for much of its running time. While the film is ultimately too clever for its own good, Giglio gets points for trying to smart-up the genre."[9] Also writing for DVD Verdict, David Johnson said, "Chaos may not redefine what's possible in the police suspense thriller, but it's satisfying and entertaining enough to earn a look-see by fans of the genre or anyone hankering for a decent, plot-twist-heavy actioner."[10]
References
- ^ Screen Daily. 22 June 2004. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ "Chaos (2005)". BFI. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ^ "Chaos (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ "Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing - 6 June 2002". IMDb. 2008-12-16. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
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- ^ "Franchise, Intertainment duel". archive.is. 2013-01-25. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- ^ Gant, Michael S. "Chaos". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Jane, Ian (21 February 2008). "Chaos". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ "Chaos (Blu-ray)". DVD Talk. 5 August 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Becker, Tom (19 February 2008). "Chaos (2005)". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Johnson, David (11 August 2009). "Chaos (Blu-Ray)". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
External links
- Chaos at IMDb