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In the excitement of “Chain” in 1996, Keanu Reeves plays the role of Eddie Kasalivich, an engineer at the University of Chicago who oversees a special scientific experiment to turn hydrogen into energy. Eddie is not a genius, but he knows how the water -filled chain reaction chamber works. Then, one night, he discovers a blurry sound frequency on accident that stabilizes the experiment and gets it to succeed. It seems that the world’s energy supply issues will be resolved.
Of course, this immediately starts a shaded cover where the chain reaction chamber is blown up by unknown conspirators and Eddie is framed for the destruction. (The explosion takes eight full city blocks.) Innocent scientists are killed, so Eddie has to go with a physicist called Lily, Played by fellow star “Constantine” Reeves in the future “Constantine” Rachel Weisz. Naturally, they must find a way to prove their innocence and find out who would want to destroy their energy experiment. Morgan Freeman also appears as one of the conspirators.
If you don’t remember “chain response,” don’t feel bad. It’s a kind of forgetful film that came and went at the end of the summer of 1996 without too many people noticing. Reeves hadn’t had an accident course in Kung Fu for “The Matrix” yet And, therefore, it wasn’t necessarily a sure box office draw, with the $ 50 million photo winning just over $ 60 million at the box office (which, in Hollywood terms, is a bomb). Instead, “chain response” was one of those films you were most likely to watch on cable TV in the late 90s. Back then, you may have even walked past several copies of a “chain reaction” in a barrier on your way to rent a more interesting movie. Even Reeves doesn’t like “chain response.”
The script was changed for a chain reaction without Reeves information
In 2001, five years after a “chain response” hit theaters, Reeves admitted UPI The film had a host of problems, and most of them derived from his script (which is credited to JF Lawton and Michael Bortman). He noted that he selected his acting roles based on the wealth of his characters and/or complexity of the plot (rather than the commercial potential of film) and had signed for “chain response” because he liked Eddie a lot. In the script he read, however, the character was closer to the main character of Archetypical Hitchcockie a wrongly accused family man but dangerous driven. That changed dramatically before shooting started, leaving Reeves cold on the project. As he said:
“(W) old I got there, it was a different movie. Originally I was married. I had this child, and I did this research, and I didn’t know that what I was investigating had had this effect. And someone was killed. And I had this regrets. Better, ‘and so I had to go with him. “
In the final film, Eddie is a much less interesting character, expressing a little more than a steely decision of a generic action hero. Reeves does not do much with the part, but then, there is not much one can do with a character like Eddie. Just like the film around it, Eddie sinks to the background, a forgotable element in a forgotten film.
“Chain reaction” has an approval score of 18% on Rotten tomatoes Based on 34 reviews. Most judges were quick to use the words “generic” and “formula” to describe. It is an absolutely remarkable film, and this exact article may be one of the few times over the last 30 years that someone has bothered to comment on.
