OK, let's start the movie with a physics professor lecturing a huge class about combining hydrogen and oxygen (a chemical reaction which produces water) and referring to it as nuclear fusion, or at least talking about getting fusion-level energies from a blatantly chemical process.
Ah, where do we want to go from there? Unfortunately, the writers of this tripe decided that changing direction and going "up" was out of the question. I guess they had mud in their ears from digging that preposterously deep hole, which prevented them from hearing the question at all.
From there, people do remarkably stupid things, and fail in remarkably stupid ways, and allow Super-Keanu to save the day!!!. This is what is called the "idiot plot". The only reason the plot advances is because every single character involved is a complete and total idiot, so that not one of them can figure out the one thing (out of many million "one things") which would stop the nefarious villain(s) in their tracks!! If you failed sixth grade science **and** never looked back, then you might enjoy this movie. If not, you will probably find more pleasure from watching "Manos, Hand of Fate", and drinking a shot of whiskey every time 3 minutes of washed-out scenery pass by on the screen, and smiling with the inward knowledge that, by the end of Manos, you, too, will be able to write a script which is better than the one at the heart of "Chain Reaction".
I ask you: Am I the ONLY person who is capable of thinking of hiring a bright high-school tech geek to vette scripts for, oh, $500 a pop, for blatantly imbecilic science errors? Especially if the scripts are supposed to *center* on science basics? This movie was going to be bad, no matter what, but, for cryin' out loud, at least get the parts correct that you can get correct for cheap!
Ah, where do we want to go from there? Unfortunately, the writers of this tripe decided that changing direction and going "up" was out of the question. I guess they had mud in their ears from digging that preposterously deep hole, which prevented them from hearing the question at all.
From there, people do remarkably stupid things, and fail in remarkably stupid ways, and allow Super-Keanu to save the day!!!. This is what is called the "idiot plot". The only reason the plot advances is because every single character involved is a complete and total idiot, so that not one of them can figure out the one thing (out of many million "one things") which would stop the nefarious villain(s) in their tracks!! If you failed sixth grade science **and** never looked back, then you might enjoy this movie. If not, you will probably find more pleasure from watching "Manos, Hand of Fate", and drinking a shot of whiskey every time 3 minutes of washed-out scenery pass by on the screen, and smiling with the inward knowledge that, by the end of Manos, you, too, will be able to write a script which is better than the one at the heart of "Chain Reaction".
I ask you: Am I the ONLY person who is capable of thinking of hiring a bright high-school tech geek to vette scripts for, oh, $500 a pop, for blatantly imbecilic science errors? Especially if the scripts are supposed to *center* on science basics? This movie was going to be bad, no matter what, but, for cryin' out loud, at least get the parts correct that you can get correct for cheap!