Rachel Weisz was pretty hot though
Chain Reaction was on television this weekend. I'd never seen it even though it's set at the old alma mater. I tuned in too late to recognize any of the settings but was too lazy to change the channel from that piece of crap. About five minutes into watching it, I recognized the directorial style as the one behind The Fugitive. Indeed, both were directed by Andrew Davis, and both had a lot of the same editors. I've always liked The Fugitive a lot. It's a wonder that I didn't like Chain Reaction more considering how similar the two movies are.
Ways in which Chain Reaction is just like The Fugitive:
1) Both are set in Chicago
2) Both have those sweeping helicopter shots of Chicago's skyline as seen from above.
3) Both have the same theme of the wrongly accused man running from the law.
4) The rugged government agent tracking the main character comes to believe his quarry is innocent.
5) In The Fugitive, Harrison Ford makes an impossible escape from a traffic tunnel surrounded by police. Keanu makes his from a drawbridge.
6) The two Chicago cops heading the hunt for Ford once again play two Chicago cops now hunting Reeves.
7) The janitor from Scrubs is in both movies. In both, he plays an unlucky police officer who apprehends the hero, only to be immediately shot by bad guys. His death is then unjustly pinned on the hero.
8) Other returning actors/actresses from The Fugitive include: the fellow fugitive who helps Ford at the beginning of the movie, the cop who gets stabbed just before the train wreck, and the female technician working late in the prosthetics lab.
Mind you, these are all things I noticed from halfway through the movie. I wouldn't be surprised if, at the beginning of the movie, Reeves' wife is murdered by a one-armed man.
Ways in which Chain Reaction should have been more like The Fugitive:
1) Music shouldn't have had so much wailing electric guitar.
2) Harrison Ford improved his appearance with a shave and a haircut. Keanu kept his stupid, ugly mop the entire time.
3) Reeves totally should have jumped off the bridge.
4) Shouldn't have sucked so much.
You can compare The Fugitive and Chain Reaction yourself if you feel like it. I very well may have missed more similarities.
Ways in which Chain Reaction is just like The Fugitive:
1) Both are set in Chicago
2) Both have those sweeping helicopter shots of Chicago's skyline as seen from above.
3) Both have the same theme of the wrongly accused man running from the law.
4) The rugged government agent tracking the main character comes to believe his quarry is innocent.
5) In The Fugitive, Harrison Ford makes an impossible escape from a traffic tunnel surrounded by police. Keanu makes his from a drawbridge.
6) The two Chicago cops heading the hunt for Ford once again play two Chicago cops now hunting Reeves.
7) The janitor from Scrubs is in both movies. In both, he plays an unlucky police officer who apprehends the hero, only to be immediately shot by bad guys. His death is then unjustly pinned on the hero.
8) Other returning actors/actresses from The Fugitive include: the fellow fugitive who helps Ford at the beginning of the movie, the cop who gets stabbed just before the train wreck, and the female technician working late in the prosthetics lab.
Mind you, these are all things I noticed from halfway through the movie. I wouldn't be surprised if, at the beginning of the movie, Reeves' wife is murdered by a one-armed man.
Ways in which Chain Reaction should have been more like The Fugitive:
1) Music shouldn't have had so much wailing electric guitar.
2) Harrison Ford improved his appearance with a shave and a haircut. Keanu kept his stupid, ugly mop the entire time.
3) Reeves totally should have jumped off the bridge.
4) Shouldn't have sucked so much.
You can compare The Fugitive and Chain Reaction yourself if you feel like it. I very well may have missed more similarities.
posted by Skim at Monday, May 15, 2006
1 Comments:
I don't find her very attractive, but she was a damn good actress in The Shape of Things (2003).
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