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FilmPG-131996
Chain Reaction
Directed by Andrew Davis
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the… From TMDB
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Chain Reaction is a 1996 thriller action film, directed by Andrew Davis, starring Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman and Rachel Weisz.
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60 of 90 · most liked firstNot for nothing, every mid-nineties movie with a scientist as a protagonist has this as a plot-point. Jurassic Park, Twister, Chain Reaction, all of them position corporate driven science as inherently problematic. I wonder how that narrative vanished in pop-culture.
neutral · AI labelView post →Is 1996 the greatest year of for movie releases of all time? The Rock? Broken Arrow? Mission Impossible? The Substitute?? Chain Reaction????? Glimmer Man?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The Long Kiss Goodnight?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
neutral · AI labelView post →Absolutely. I think if you tried to make a movie like Chain Reaction right now, you would NEVER be able to find a distributor. A film where a PhD student discovers cold-fusion and then has the discovery stolen by a cabal of corporate and government interests who want to take it to market? Hell no.
neutral · AI labelView post →SLOPWATCH tonight is CHAIN REACTION, a film about fusion power that is about thirty years old, which is appropriate given that fusion power is always thirty years away
neutral · AI labelView post →I've never seen Chain Reaction, but there's a part in the trailer when Keanu Reeves is in the snow and Rachel Weisz (sheesh, I should see this movie) yells what are you doing, and Keanu lowers his coat which was covering his mouth and yells, "the best I can." dunno why that made me laugh so much
neutral · AI labelView post →Of course, Keanu Reeves was a terrible Diana Ross in the movie of Chain Reaction. #TOTP
neutral · AI labelView post →I...have fan art Mummy movie posters on my walls...with Rachel Weiss & Oded Fehr in particular. 😂 But also how about Rachel Weiss in Chain Reaction? Bonus Keanu!
neutral · AI labelView post →I was working at Argonne National Lab when CHAIN REACTION was being filmed there. A lot of my colleagues are in that movie as extras. Keanu Reeves was surprisingly shorter than I'd imagined.
neutral · AI labelView post →Take a movie title, add a colon and another movie's title to make it SOUND like a sequel to the first movie Cannonball Run: First Blood Hudson Hawk: Maverick Hackers: Chain Reaction Total Recall: Die Another Day Bloodsport: The Descent 12 Monkeys: Night at the Museum The Saint: Catch Me If You Can
neutral · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction (1996) with Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz. One of my favorite movies from the 90s. I had this movie on my playlist when I am working (I was a programmer). In my second monitor was movies stream, it was before YouTube. I loved everything that motivated me to work.
positive · AI labelView post →And the premise suits that well. It's practically tailored for an action movie. Like, there can be explicit plot armor. If you squint, the outline maybe looks most like the 1996 Keanu Reeves/Morgan Freeman/Rachel Weisz film "Chain Reaction" - but I hope I can do a little better. 😀 2/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 30th birthday anniversary to Roald Dhal Mattila film Chain Reaction film Robin Williams Jack The Fan film Kenan and Kel TV series Tetrix SNEZ game The Ramones final concert week Aaliyah: One in a Million song Atlanta Summer Olympics Charles and Diana Divorce
neutral · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction(!) Perfectly good chase movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching The Chain Reaction, 1980. youtu.be/WOzDJLCa_p0?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Legit call for interviews: ➡️ Are you a Michael Shannon fan? 🪲 Do you have strong feelings about the movie BUG? Or CHAIN REACTION? 🎙 Have you/will you have gone to any of the Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy R.E.M. concerts? If yes to any of these, I want to hear from you!
neutral · AI labelView post →"Twitch of The Death Nerve" might be the most hardcore name this film went under, but "Chain Reaction" is the one that suits the narrative best I think, with the long line of murders, performed by a long line of murderers. #TheFilmCrowd
neutral · AI labelView post →Famously, this film has been known under about a million different titles. as well as "A Bay of Blood", there's "Carnage", "Ecology of Murder", "Twitch of The Death Nerve", and "Chain Reaction", among others. That last one will make more sense as the film progresses. #TheFilmCrowd
neutral · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 6.50pm, Romancing The Stone on Film4. At 9pm, Tremors on ITV4, Chain Reaction on Legend or Memory on Film4. At 10.55, Anderson Tapes on Talking Pictures. At 11.10, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on BBC1. At 11.15, American Woman on Film4. At 11.25, Fistful Of Dollars on Great Action #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →I won’t say that there aren’t things that break me! The whole Keanu “Chain Reaction” movie bugged me because it never decided what type of science was happening!
negative · AI labelView post →Listening to Andrew Davis chatting about "Chain Reaction" which he directed on the Spy Master Interview #131 from the SpyHards podcast. @spyhards.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1cha...
neutral · AI labelView post →Having just watched the movie Chain Reaction, I now wonder: is there a movie where the main character is a graduate student (and that is important to the plot)? Keanu in Chain Reaction is an undergraduate student. Same with Val Kilmer in Real Genius.
neutral · AI labelView post →#GnomonTV "Chain Reaction 2: Light the Wick" Science fiction action crime thriller film starring Keanu Reeves as a retired assassin who invents a new non-contaminating power source. youtube.com/watch?v=n90T... youtube.com/watch?v=wpyn... gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/Chain_R...
neutral · AI labelView post →26 March 1944 – Diana Ross, 81, US singer-songwriter, actress. Supremes You Can't Hurry Love * Baby Love * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * Do You Know Where You're Going To * Love Hangover * Chain Reaction * Upside Down Film: Lady Sings the Blues (1972) Mahogany * The Wiz * Out of Darkness (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm a little disappointed I read that wrong. I thought you were doing a screening of Chain Reaction, the 1996 movie where Keanu Reeves is a scientist working on cold fusion.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love that "police procedural thriller set in Chicago" used to be a whole-ass film genre in the 1990s. The Fugitive. The Negotiator. Chain Reaction. And they always starred this guy as a clownish CPD cop.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday Arvo Throwback movie is something called CHAIN REACTION (1996) in which Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman solve the fossil fuel crisis but then get framed for a crime they didn't commit
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight I'm watching a movie I haven't seen since the year it came out. Wonder how Chain Reaction aged.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★½ review of Chain Reaction (1996) boxd.it/Obyot #Letterboxd #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Hey, a Chain Reaction reference in the wild! I saw them filming scenes of that movie in Madison! #TheLastDriveIn @republicandalek.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction. Best Keanu Reeves film.
positive · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction. Just a fun action movie with science in it.
positive · AI labelView post →My grading movie today is Chain Reaction. I've never seen Chain Reaction listed as Chicago movie, and it absolutely should be. But, also, Chain Reaction is an amazing parable about mission creep and the moral hazards of grant funding.
positive · AI labelView post →I get that. My ongoing crush on Rachel Weisz began with a really terrible movie called Chain Reaction, which also stared Keanu Reeves.
negative · AI labelView post →The Chain Reaction (1980) The Chain Reaction is a solid Ozploitation film. It features an excellent premise, alarming danger, and enjoyable action sequences involving cars. Review Attached! Now Available on Blu-ray thanks to Umbrella Entertainment walkdenentertainment.com/the-chain-re...
neutral · AI labelView post →Pacific Rim 28 Days Later Armageddon (that damn scene!) Chain Reaction Snowpiercer (movie and TV show) Snakes on a Plane (disastrous for THEM! 😆)
neutral · AI labelView post →watching Chain Reaction someone just kissed Rachel Weisz on the cheek in a movie with Keanu Reeves in it, sealing his fate. That mf is dead dead dead.
neutral · AI labelView post →CHAIN REACTION (1996) - While it isn't good, even this middling and muddled film shows up more recent action films in that it has a handful of cool physical setpieces (the bridge part) shot on location in a way you'd never see now. Overall though it's a snoozer
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the 1996 action film Chain Reaction, where Keanu Reeves runs into the Field Museum in Chicago, gets chased by bad guys, and runs out of the Museum of Science and Industry, several miles away.
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to SpyHards - Ep 244 - Chain Reaction (1996) with guest Rob Hill @spyhards.bsky.social shows.acast.com/spyhards-a-s...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 NEW INTERVIEW! Andrew Davis returns to SpyHards to reveal the untold story behind 1996’s CHAIN REACTION! Why did he almost walk away? How did he reinvent the script? And why did Keanu Reeves choose the film over Speed 2? Tune in now ⬇️ 🎧 pod.fo/e/44656b 📺 youtu.be/NjPsdCkuVgw?...
neutral · AI labelView post →He's one of my favorite actors... And I love all his movies (esp. John Wick series)... But my favorite movie is 'Chain Reaction' w/Morgan Freeman!
positive · AI labelView post →My dad was an extra in a forgotten Keanu movie (Chain Reaction) and that’s how we ended up with an autographed copy of Speed on VHS in our home
neutral · AI labelView post →I was 27 and the movie CHAIN REACTION stole the last shreds of my innocence
negative · AI labelView post →Sry for going on ann on in a thread that's not mine but Chain Reaction was one of the big movie disappointments of my life. Coming off Siege and Fugitive, i was 27 and pumped for Davis' next movie. He had Keanu and peak Morgan Freeman, who was red hot. Then the movie just lay there like a dead dog.
negative · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction Screen Saver https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/chain-reaction-screen-saver A screensaver for the 1996 movie Chain Reaction. #macgarden #ScreenSavers #1996 #20thCenturyFox #MediaRevolutionLLC
neutral · AI labelView post →I love his work but a buddy and I *still* laughingly refer to his *running* in the movie Chain Reaction. They’ve all got their weak spots is my point.
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neutral · AI labelView post →9pm TODAY on #GreatAction The 1996 #SciFi #Action #Thriller film🎥 “Chain Reaction” directed by Andrew Davis from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton + Michael Bortman 🌟Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn, Brian Cox
neutral · AI labelView post →No one told me that CHAIN REACTION not only has a post-credits scene, but the last thing in the entire movie is an audio clip of Keanu Reeves saying, "Whoa!" Why didn't you tell me?
neutral · AI labelView post →Film 550 for '25 ▶️ Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason: #NowWatching "Chain Reaction" (1996) #Film #PhysicalMedia
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone else remember the forgettable film "Chain Reaction" from 1996, dir. by Andrew Davis, and starring Morgan Freeman along with future "Constantine" costars Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz? Even though Reeves isn't fond of it, I still enjoy its mindless action entertainment. #FilmSky #random
positive · AI labelView post →This season's Dante Alighieri Soc. of SC film series has the theme "Reazione a catena" or "Chain Reaction." Tonight we're watching KIDNAPPED by the always-provocative, prolific auteur Marco Bellocchio! 6:30PM, Cabrillo. Co-sponsored by Santa Cruz Jewish Film Fest. More info: tinyurl.com/4w99vp83
neutral · AI labelView post →Lol you HAVE to watch the Keanu /Rachel Weisz film Chain Reaction we cracked up the entire film between SCENES OF KEANU RUNNING! and the unrecognizable “American accent” of Brian Cox
negative · AI labelView post →Today's movies... "Hope (2026)" and "The Chain Reaction (1980)". One is an allegedly amazing new Korean horror film. One is a bucket-ruster environmental/action flick from Australia, made by and starring the same people who made "Mad Max" and with a guest appearance by you-know-who.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched series 3 of 'Vigil' on iPlayer. Glorious cinematography of Svalbard, but the writers obviously watched that old Keanu Reeves/Morgan Freeman film 'Chain Reaction' as the plot was very similar And equally daft
negative · AI labelView post →2 August 1996 Chain Reaction starring Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman opened. Much of the film was shot on location in Chicago, with several action sequences filmed during the region's harsh winter weather. #History #HistoryMatters
neutral · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction premiered on Aug 2nd 1996. A groupa scientists at the University of #Chicago discover a sourcea cheap clean burning energy but not evryone is a fan. Conspiracy! Explosions! Murder! Dis film was directed by Chicagos own Andrew Davis who shot alotta his films here including The Fugitive
neutral · AI labelView post →Chain Reaction (1996) Directed by Andrew Davis https://onesheet.org/movie/chain-reaction-1996/
neutral · AI labelView post →... screen. Cinematic sequences seemed loosely connected in order to hit some sort of action quota formula and produce content for the previews. The GCI was "discount JJ Abrams" levels of bad. I felt like the movie Chain Reaction did a better job telling this story with an exotic energy source ...
negative · AI labelView post →This is the future proposed by the movie Chain Reaction. All it will take is half the city getting vaporized by a secret lab experiment.
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