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I rent DVD's to pass the time on airplanes. Sadly, staring out at the clouds would have been better entertainment than this. I am not the best movie critic....I don't want to have to go back to college to figure out what a movie is about. In this Chaos, I didn't know if I was watching a psycho describe an event in real time, a past event, or a delusion that was only in his mind. This reminds me of Jacob's Ladder.....you never really knew what you were watching. The slow motion scenes in the spa were disjointed, and painfully slow to get through. If there was any sense at all of hot, sweaty panic, it was lost with the switching back to a particularly unappealing Val Kilmer sitting at an empty table staring into space. Finally, the ending was exactly the sort of finish I hate. You can guess and make presumptions, but you really have absolutely no idea what you just watched.

Unfortunately, this movie is a fail. Especially unfortunately because Val Kilmer acted awesome. This movie is separated on two parts - first happened in interview room where Kilmer is interrogated by Assante and second happened in the same time in the steam room between six other people. And as much I enjoyed really good Kilmer\Assante scenes as much I disliked steam room. Except cute steam effect and and yellow color of screen all rest there was very predictable for this genre - screaming, yelling and everybody went crazy one by one as usual. Boredom. And Eric Robert unfortunately dissolved among nameless actors there. Combining it with pretty ambiguous plot with very dissatisfying twist plot in the end this movie really hasn't a chance. Val Kilmer couldn't save it.

Let's keep this short and sweet. This movie is a total disaster. The plot makes no sense at all. The acting is dreadful. The writing is appalling. The music is absurd. The production must have been disastrous, as the movie is only 90 minutes long yet there are an enormous amount of padded super-slow-motion scenes. One scene was over FIVE MINUTES LONG, of nothing but actors gurning in slow motion while some pompous over-bearing music droned on. The ending is ridiculous. All in all, a total fail of a movie. I would have rather watched adverts for 90 minutes. The people involved in making this should never be allowed to make another movie again.

Even if I got frustrated with almost all the characters at some points I can't blame it on poor acting. They were acting their parts.

This is a mystery/thriller vehicle with good actors trapped in bad writing.

In the very first minutes of the movie, the main antagonist is honoring his mentor proclaiming how much he is ahead of his time. He's years ahead of his time, no, he's light-years ahead of his time.. After that he goes on about how the protagonist doesn't have the intellectual capacity for his task. It got me thinking.. "light-years" is not a measure of time, it's a measure of distance. Sure maybe the antagonist could be kinda slow but it didn't look like they were going for that in the movie. Sure, you could say that someone is ahead of others by "miles" or something like that but it doesn't really matter to me. I thought it was kinda dumb and that is what I thought of the movie as well. I really like Val Kilmer and I really hate that I so often see him i movies like this.

If this is broadcast on TV and you can't fall to sleep - it's worth the watch. But that's being generous.

Like someone else said already; you can't blame the actors for the way this movie turned out. If it says in the script to scream 90% of the time without pretty much any reason, you just do so. Apart from the script, what makes this movie one of the most terrible things I have seen so far, is the way it has been "stapled" together. The director has no clue about how to set an atmosphere, the editor has no clue about how to avoid being extremely annoying. Maybe one acceptable thing in this movie was the music,... but even that seemed to be a bit too random and misplaced.

This movie is so terribly slow in every aspect of the word, that it is extremely hard not to stop it without even waiting to see how it ends. I had to watch it with 4 pauses. Not because it was scary or overwhelming, but because it is simply an annoying and time wasting movie. Avoid it, please. Do yourself a favor and go rent an Uwe Boll movie, even those are better than this, and that says a lot.

I still give this movie 2 stars because I admire the actors for not burning the film before it was released.

This movie is also known as "The Chaos Experiment" - and I thought that alternative title really sums this up quite well. It's really quite a chaotic movie which has much greater potential than it ever came close to fulfilling. Val Kilmer plays a man named Jimmy who as the movie opens walks into a newspaper office and tells the editor that unless his story about global warming is printed, he's going to kill 6 people he has locked up inside a steam room by turning up the heat, so to speak, to demonstrate the chaos that will erupt between them and show what he believes is going to eventually happen in the world due to global warming. The movie then goes back and forth from Jimmy to the steam room, as he's questioned by a cop played by Armand Assante who tries to find out where the 6 are.

The premise is somewhat interesting. One of the major problems with the movie, though, is that - aside from the plight they find themselves in - there's no particular reason given to care for any of the six in the steam room. The characters are never really fleshed out, aside from a very brief introduction they give to each other in the movie's early stages, before they realize their situation. So we get a few seconds of each giving us their likes and dislikes and telling us where they're from. But for this movie to really work, we need to know more about them; we need to care about them - and frankly, we don't. There's even suspicion throughout (probably deliberate) about whether any of it is actually true, or whether it's just a delusion inside Jimmy's head.

The idea was interesting. It just didn't work very well.

The story was just stupid and I almost fell asleep with boredom. A typical B-movie.

The good:

Kilmer pulls off a fairly believable psychopath, and there are some really great performances from those in the steam room, although they sometimes border on the "over-dramatic" rather than "convincing".

The music is not bad too, always reflective of the mood without becoming too invasive to the action on screen.

The bad:

Firstly, some of the scenes are quite drawn out with no sense of progression. Some of the steam room scenes are difficult to stick with, in particular one excessively long scene towards the end of the film. During this scene I looked at my watch to see how long was left on the viewing time - not a good sign if I was meant to be engrossed in the story.

Secondly, the method which the story unfolds seems fairly underwhelming. It felt as though there was more potential for the plot to thicken, particularly from those in the steam room. The captives also seem to have their own designated "turn" at falling apart/going mad, which is overall quite unconvincing and ultimately predictable.

So in conclusion, there are some good scenes, but this is not a film I will actively recommend to friends.

Surprised by how much I actually enjoyed a cast that included three former Gods who are failing nowadays-Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, and Armand Assante. It doesn't seem like they can even get a credit in a theatrical release anymore.

Kilmer plays a mad-scientist type of doctor who walks into a newspaper and announces to the editor that he has six people trapped in a steam room (at 130 degrees), and he'll only let them out if the secret to global warming is let out, presumably by him. The editor calls Assante's character -a cop- for help, and so begins a long, arduous process, with nods to the people trapped inside (including Roberts) slowly losing it because of the heat.

Again, a surprisingly enjoyable film. The twists and turns, while a bit confusing, were on the whole intriguing and involving. The acting is really, really good, especially by the aforemented trio. Kilmer has put on considerable weight but ironically this added to his mystery. Assante does a great job as the cop, one of his best performances in years probably. Ditto for Roberts.

I wasn't looking for too much but all in all I found "The Chaos/Steam Experiment" an involving and interesting little mystery. Definitely a recommended DTV flick for your buck.

Though I live in the area this movie was filmed, I remained objective from its beginning to end. Not a bad movie for Kilmer... similar to Robin Williams' attempt at creating a deranged psycho, opposite his comic days (One Hour Photo.) Sadly, there were a few key moments that dragged, like when Jimmi and Mancini meet up the first time, and a couple times during what was assumed the dramatic interrogation process. I didn't really see the chemistry connection from Kilmer to Assante, though it was nice to see Assante in such a lead role again. And he certainly did justice to his part.

Most of the key cast were great in their roles. And it was certainly impressive to see Kilmer achieve such a believable psychotic role.

I am very tolerant of bad movies - particularly when I'm home sick, watching them for free on Hulu - but this thing is so irredeemably awful, I stopped watching halfway through. Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, and Eric Roberts do their best (although their performances are all oddly mannered in this film), but the material is just not act-able. The rest of the cast is sub-par at best, and they are all constantly either over-acting like mad or staring numbly into the distance. But the absolute worst performance is that of the actress playing Jesse. Wow. Do yourself a huge favor, and don't watch this thing, even for free. Your time is more valuable than this dreck.

Most bad movies at least have something going for them, something that makes you want to sit through them, even though you know they're rubbish. It's a rare film that is so thoroughly messed up in every department that it's literally unwatchable. That, plus the frankly bizarre premise, gives this thing some novelty value, if nothing else.

The premise is probably the best thing about it. Think Saw crossed with An Inconvenient Truth, with gratuitous nudity and gratuitous sweaty Eric Roberts. With a plot like that, it could have been a camp classic, but unfortunately everyone took it very seriously, for some reason, almost as though they really thought that this movie would carry a serious message about global warming.

Val Kilmer, above all, is VERY, VERY SERIOUS. He mumbles and stumbles his way through an embarrassing performance, but he's still the best member of a dire cast of non-actors and mugging over-actors. The quality of the camera-work suggests that someone just learned how to use the special features on Windows Movie Maker, and the dialogue seems to have been written by someone who has never heard English spoken before.

It's a challenge to sit through this deeply silly, but deeply self-serious movie. Really, you've got much better things to do with your time.

The above review is so stupid that I feel compelled to write one, through a basic sense of justice. This is not a great film. It's not a good film, in the sense that you'd never own it. But it's worth a watch - I was interested from the opening to the end - boring patches, yes, but never boring in the way that kills the movie. They were short as patches go, the flick recovered.

In short, if there's something you like doing, do it. But there's often nothing - and this flick is worth your time then :)

And Val - Val is awesome. Val is good movie in this OK movie. He should lose some weight - the parts would come.

A guy goes into a newspaper to report he has 6 people he locked away in a steam room which will get above 130degrees an kill them. Its some weird type of experiment cooked-up. The newspaper instead of being interested in the story of the 6-people himself slides it off to his old detective buddy. From their Armnade Assante and Erick Roberts go back in fourth. Poorly written yes, there's no witty dialog the characters are pretty carbon-copy. There's a little "SAW" feeling to it. But then again "CRIMINAL MINDS" already did this with a group of "CHEER-LEADERS". You feel this has been done before, and it has been done before but not as a feature movie, a TV show. In the end I liked it.

Officially the worst film I have ever scene. Just plain No should suffice. If you feel like people are exaggerating, watch the film, but be warned it's sooooo awful.

Examples. The six million dollar budget obviously went to Val Kilmer, because 60 percent of the film is the same shot played over and over. They must have been constrained for time, because even when they made a mistake, they kept filming and left it in. Half of what Kilmer says is inaudible.

You could turn this into a drinking game, pick a scene. The hotel, the Ferris wheel, the skyline etc, when it comes up drink. Be warned, you will be wrecked if you do this.

Horrifyingly bad. Q

Val Kilmer plays Jimmy who one day walks into a newspaper office and demands that the editor publish the most important story ever. The editor calls the police instead. Now we find out what this story is. Jimmy is convinced that the world will end in 2012 because of global warming. To prove what will happen to humanity in that event he has created an experiment that seeks to replicate the effects. He has lured 6 people via a dating service into a steam room and will leave them there to die, unless his story is published.

We meet the 6 people that include Eric Roberts, a guy from Brooklyn, a male nurse, a neurotic girl, a waitress and some other girl. At first they get to know each other thinking indeed that this is some date. But they realize that the door is locked and they can't get out while it gets hotter and hotter in the room.

Meanwhile, the cop is convinced that Jimmy is crazy, but he's also convinced that the story of the 6 people locked in the room is true. He goes searching for the room and finally interrogates Jimmy who isn't very cooperative until the cop is taken off the case.

The people in the meantime are going crazy and start killing each other and themselves. We find out that Jimmy actually was a renowned scientist who lost his mind. At the end there is a twist.

The Chaos/Steam Experiment is low budget but looks good and has a tremendous cast (Kilmer, Roberts, Assante, the lovely Mauro). What is missing is more story. Clearly they didn't have enough of it for a 90 minute movie. So we get a lot of repeating scenes and scenes in slow motion. The genre of people confined in a room is also done better elsewhere. Here fortunately, the bickering and yelling is fairly short and death comes quickly. You want to like this movie because of the performances and cast but the meager script, direction and production don't make it easy. The twist at the end is neat but comes late, once you've pretty much given up on things.