Customer Reviews

The Chaos Experiment

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

Kilmer and Assante do their best with this oddly written thriller. I don't mean odd in a good way.

Zero suspense, poor story-flow, and a laughably bad ending makes me want to one-star the effort. However, Val Kilmer and Armand Assante manage to elevate the production to "curious". The victim's introduction scene in the steam room will be your challenge; if you can get past that, you won't be too disappointed by the time you suffer the end - you know the letdown potential is fairly high early on.

There are several "uncomfortable" moments which are surely worth something, but there are no shocks for the horror fan, and no neat twists or dialogue for the intellectual thriller crowd.

The soundtrack (Don MacDonald) stood out, and Grand Rapids natives will be interested to see home on the big screen. Otherwise this is hard to recommend to anyone but a die hard Kilmer or Assante completist.

I was wrong. It never got better. Why Val Kilmer and Eric Roberts would sign on to do this movie is completely beyond me. Actually, why a studio would spend the time trying to make something that looks like a feature film out of that script is beyond me. Seriously one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I should have looked for reviews before I pulled it off the shelf at Blockbuster.

Dont waste your time or your money. I LOVE Val Kilmer and I almost cried at how bad this movie was. The ending, especially, is so stupid.

Let me put it this way...I would rather spend the day at work than watch this movie again. I would rather spend 2 hours in the dentist's chair than watch this movie again..I would rather go have my colon examined...I would rather wait on line at the bank..I would rather shovel snow..I would rather look at ugly baby pictures..I would rather write long winded pointless movie reviews about terrible, contrived, painfully boring movies..

Mental patient Val Kilmer has locked up six people in a steam room for some sort of "experiment" and uses them as a hostage to get some article about global warming published in a newspaper. Armand Assante is the police detective who should be trying to find the people and save them but spends most of his time having boring discussions with Kilmer. Meanwhile the people in the steam room (where everything is yellow and blurry and seen from weird camera angles) start realizing they can't get out and for some reason start dying and killing eachother. They also spend a lot of time talking about random stuff.

The script is really strange. Nothing seems to make any sense and whatever plot there is doesn't follow any normal story structure. And what's with all the never ending slow motion scenes in the steam room? It seems like the director tried to be artsy and just ended up being pretentious and silly.

I didn't expect the movie to be great but I expected to be entertained, but I wasn't. I did laugh a few times but only at how pretentious the movie was. Not recommended to anyone.

It just did not hang together, as is true of so many films.

On the positive side, the photography was sort of artsy, like of the people in bathing suits in the sauna. But most of the film was so poor that it made the artsy flourishes seem pretentious. Too much gratuitous violence and blood. Also on the positive side it was fun to watch an overweight aging Kilmer play an intelligent schizophrenic who was overdue on his meds. I think he overplayed it, but they have to do that in Hollywood films for the mass audience, and looked at that way his acting was fun.

Not one to rave about!

Just about the worst thing ever. At the end of the film I wished that my, "lungs would melt and my eyes would cauterize". That way, I would be assured to never be subjected to something this painfully STUPID again!

Ok you know a movie is horrible when you keep looking at the clock to see how many minutes are left. It had two good actors Val Kilmer and Eric Roberts so I kept waiting for it to have some redeeming quality. It didn't. It doesn't. Like another viewer said I want my two hours of my life back - it is that bad. The plot - well if you could call it that - moronic and makes no sense. I would tell you what the plot was but I honestly don't know. Something about killing people in a steam room to protest global warming.Unbelievable and gratuitous violence. The whole thing is disjointed and stupid.The acting bizarre and terrible. The "ending" topped the rest of the movie which I didn't think was possible in being ridiculous and fittingly nonsensical. I was saying thank god it's over. This may be the worst movie I have ever seen and I have seen a lot!

Why is Val Kilmer in this movie? He should know better. I guess he needed money because he doen't belong in it. its way below his level of professional ehtics. Senseless plot, bad acting, hard too follow and to sum it up, it is one bad movie. Avoid this one---Skip it please!!!!!!

I started watching this movie at 1 am because I wasn't tired. I quickly started getting tired but kept thinking that the movie had to improve or that it had to mean SOMETHING so I stayed awake to find out the answer!! But there was no answer!!! The "mystery" was never solved, and the ending made absolutely no sense.

All I could think of when I finished watching this movie was that I wanted those hours of my life back. That is such a cliche, but it is actually what popped into my head when "The End" appeared on the screen. Yikes. Really really bad.

Oh, and I had the first inkling of how bad this movie was going to be when the ridiculously stereotyped Italian guy said, in all seriousness, "fuhgeddaboutit."