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Article: `CHAIN REACTION' A CONTRIVED, PLODDING, OVERDONE CHASE FLICK.(What's Happening)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 2, 1996
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Keanu Reeves runs for his life in ``Chain Reaction,'' and he tirelessly runs and runs while the movie runs out of steam and plods to a dead halt.
Andrew Davis, the film's director, was responsible for the huge hit, ``The Fugitive,'' and this new effort feels very similar to that movie thematically. But it's missing the essential component that elevated the earlier film: the psychological relationship that develops between hunter and hunted in a good cat-and-mouse chase.
Eddie Kasalivich (Reeves) hasn't had the luxury of a formal education. But he, in his blue-collar pragmatism, has discovered, through machining a steel drum, the key to solving the ...