Chain Reaction Movie Review 1996

Government/scientific conspiracy chase story finds Chicago lab tech Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) a member of a research team that's discovered the formula for cheap, pollution-free energy. This doesn't sit well with someone since the team's leader is murdered and the lab destroyed in an explosion. Eddie and scientist Lily Sinclair (Weisz) become prime suspects and are pursued by the feds as they try to find the real culprits. Old pro Freeman, as money man Paul Shannon, is the best reason to watch (as usual). Davis did "The Fugitive," so he knows his tension-filled chases but this is just more same old-same old.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 107 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Adventure Drama, Fugitives, Frame-Ups, Boom!, It's a Conspiracy, Man!, Chicago, Science & Scientists, CIA/NSA, The Wrong Man, FBI

Screenplay

J.F. Lawton, Michael Bortman

Cast

Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Brian Cox, Kevin Dunn, Joanna Cassidy, Chelcie Ross, Tzi Ma, Nicholas Rudall, Peter J. D'Noto

Cinematography

Frank Tidy

Director

Andrew Davis

Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Producer

Arne L. Schmidt, Richard D. Zanuck, Erwin Stoff, Zanuck Company, Chicago Pacific Entertainment, 20th Century-Fox