FauxNixon

Chaos is such a waste of cast, script, film, and money.  The writer and director Tony Giglio has little previous directorial experience and his IMDb resume provides associations with mostly B-movies in general for his career.

In this horrible movie we are presented with a bank robbery in Seattle led by Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) and a crew of loyal men organized as smartly as an accountant’s records, who hold the contents and people of a bank hostage and demand to negotiate only with recently-suspended Det. Quentin Conners (Jason Statham).  Conners has been suspended and his partner fired for their involvement in a bad shooting in another hostage situation in the recent past, referred to as the Pearl Street shooting.

His suspension over, due to the circumstances, he is assigned a new partner in Det. Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe), son of a famous Seattle policeman who died in the line of duty.  Conners takes command of the entire scene, including the SWAT team, orders the power cut and then begins an assault.  Before he can do so there is an explosion and the swath of people formerly in the bank run out of it, causing confusiong as to what has happened, which are hostages and which are members of Lorenz’ group.

Investigation ultimately reveals that the cash was never touched, nor removed, but that a box belonging to a Saudi prince was broken into and the contents removed, which links it with similar crimes that have been occurring over a period of months.

For no apparent reason, Det. Dekker keeps forcing his little anecdotes about chaos theory into the mix and it is there that this jumble of a movie begings to break down as it tries to have too many layers and too much complexity while at the same time skimping on dialogue, reasoning, logic and then adding a big serving of cliches.

Lorenz begins killing his associates and the police begin to sense a pattern and start staking them out as they identify them in an effort to arrest him and then the penultimate revelation: Lorenz is not the criminal he was thought to be, but the fired partner of Det. Conners.  I will leave the ultimate revelation a surprise for those of you who wish to sit through this movie, but I would advise you skip this one and do watch really almost anything else instead.   As I said in the beginnning, this film is just a colossal waste.