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.

“Tsotsi” is urban slang for thug in Johannesburg, South Africa, which is where this movie is based.  It tells us a gripping story about life in the true poverty that may be found in the shantytowns of South Africa.  The Tsotsi/Thug to which the title refers is an anonymous black young adult who lives in a shanty in a densely built and very crowded shantytown outside Johannesburg. 

Domino’s main problem it’s so ridiculously beyond the scope of reality, even with the suspension of disbelief. It’s the attitude and casting of The Spice Girls crammed awkwardly into the packaging of a B-rate thriller. Domino Harvey is an English-accented young woman played by Keira Knightley, born into money in Beverly Hills who has tomboy characteristics and trouble in school, but makes it through and pledges a sorority only to attack the sisters when mild hazing begins. She somehow has a British accent despite her California upbringing and a never-explained attraction to practicing with nun-chucks.

Oh, for fuck’s sake is this movie pointless. Sure, there are some points which are pretty funny, but overall it’s the same, tired plot that even Clerks fans have to be getting tired of. Basically, there’s a guy who is working in a dead-end job, making very little money, and when compared with others who took similar classes in high school and got similar grades, he is simply not performing at his peak—in fact, he is under-achieving to almost Guinness Book of Records levels.

When considering what to write in a review after having seen Memoirs of a Geisha it is difficult not to think that this movie is very much what Titanic could have been. The film is as beautiful as the characters are graceful and the story, while revolving around a very specific time period in a very specific locale and within a specific culture, tells a universal story of romance that is both charming and to which one can easily relate.