Chain Reaction has the same director as The Fugitive, some of the same actors as The Fugitive and it has a similar feel to The Fugitive but this movie is NOT The Fugitive. It's a bland copycat with a confusing plot, terrible dialogue and a heavy-handed environmental message. It had some entertaining moments, but the rest of the movie is pretty much just Keanu Reeves running away from things.

Considering that this film was directed by Andrew Davis who before this directed the hit film the Fugitive (1993), you would have thought he ought to put a lot of effort to making Chain Reaction to be just as great as the Fugitive. Unfortunately Chain Reaction just comes off as being a very plain mediocre film. When I originally first saw this film I had no clue what it was about but now since seeing it with a better perspective I now know what it's about, I suppose the story in this does work well but this film does have it's problems, I'm not saying this film is bad as it's watchable but it's very plain.The first problem in this film that comes to my mind is the music soundtrack, oh my gosh, talk about the wrong type of music for your film. Having the right music for your film is extremely important and the people that were behind the films musical design got it all completely wrong. In hindsight this is a chase film where the hero is wrongly accused of something he didn't do and is being chased by the police, but the scenes themselves are just "plain" and could have been better. I know I keep using the word plain but when I say this I don't mean it in a bad way, like I said the story does work well.Overall conclusion, it's a mediocre action film that's not bad but it's it's just...well...plain.

Andrew Davis directed this chase thriller that stars Keanu Reeves as Eddie Kasalivich, a technician on a scientific research team that discovers a new, low cost, no pollution alternative energy source. Rachel Weisz plays physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair, also on the project, and gets caught up with Eddie after someone steals the invention, murders the other scientists, and blows up the installation, forcing Eddie & Lily to go on the run to prove their innocence and retrieve their invention. Morgan freeman plays their mentor Paul Shannon, who tries to help them for his own reasons... Marginal film has a good cast and direction, with exciting action scenes, but comes up short due to a lack of imagination in its storytelling, despite a worthy premise.

Just watched the big budget CHAIN REACTION on the Reelz channel, and it all made for a very underwhelming Sat. night. Some sort of convoluted plot about alternative fuel which didn't make a whole bunch of sense was the back drop to Keanu Reeves & Rachel Weisz running everywhere around Chicago and So. Wisconsin in January of 1996.It certainly was fun picking out Chicago bit actors of the era, including Chelcie Ross, a very young and skinny Michael Shannon (or as I know him now, Nelson Van Alden from "Boardwalk Empire"), John Cusack's late father, and even a couple of CBS2 Chicago veteran investigative reporters, Pam Zekman and John Drummond. The best parts were the location shots at Williams Bay on frozen Lake Geneva Wisc., including the inside of the Yerkes Observatory and Keanu spinning around on an "everglades like" hovercraft just missing some 'Sconnie fish houses.But all in all, I'd say take a pass on CHAIN REACTION unless nothing else is on.