Sunday 20 October 2019

Chaos - An enjoyable action-crime caper

There are some films that are basically the same story you've seen a hundred times, but are done in a way that just elevates them above the mediocre. Chaos is one of them. You can hate it for Jason Statham's (dubious) attempt at an American accent, or you can just ignore it and go along for the ride.

Jason Statham and Ryan Phillippe play a couple of cops on the trail of Wesley Snipes, after he and a gang rob a bank. Or do they? There are many questions raised by the `heist' and, although some have likened it to `Inside Man' (another film about a bank heist) Chaos may start out predictable, but there are enough twists and turns along the way to keep it interesting.

It'll never be a classic. It doesn't have the `star power' to really make people take much notice of it. And, like I said, it's not a classic, but, if you're looking for some cops and robbers action with a few decent twists, you could probably do worse (like try and do an American accent when you're from London - seriously, they could have just made it so that Statham was a British guy who just so happened to work in the U.S.).

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that

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