Chaos on DVD (1999)

Excellent film noir

TristanWhite [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/11/2005

Very very clever film, gripping. You have to pay real close attention to everything, especially in first fifteen minutes, as it helps to understand the very confusing story. Don't worry, you're MEANT to be confused. And you're also MEANT to understand everything by the end. There are some things however that take a lot of working out, but in the end it all fell into place making this one of the best Japanese films I've seen (although Nobody Knows was perhaps a touch better). Certainly the best Nakata, by a mile. I dread to think how Hollywood will butcher this with Robert de Niro and Benicio del Toro next year. I wish they'd think up some of their own ideas. Although at least Jonathan 'Sexy Beast' Glazer is directing, so it shouldn't be as bad as some remakes!

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Chaos rules. Not in a good way.

adiw from Leicestershire [Highly rated reviewer] , 28/03/2005

Give the man a canvas and he'll create a masterpiece. Or at least, that's what they will have you believe.

Ringu was a work of art, make no mistake about it. When it comes to influence and intensity, few could match the effect that a single movie would have on the Global population and the way that they continue to watch horror movies. Ringu defied expectation and opened the door to a whole new breed of terror.

Dark Water merely hammered home the fact.

Chaos is a big change in direction and the flaws soon become obvious. Not that it's a bad movie, Chaos brings with it enough twists and turns to make even Hitchcock nautious. But sadly, when it comes to creating an entertaining night in Chaos offers nothing new at the table and leaves you with a sense of wanting.

The plot twists are less than inspiring and Hideo fails to rise above the ruins.

A change of pace indeed. Let me know when the screaming starts...

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Terrific twisted thriller.

Stephen Lindsay from Northern Ireland , 03/01/2006

A film you really have to concentrate on, Hollywood take note. When a businessman's wife is kidnapped after they have enjoyed a meal, the movie takes a twisted turn upon turn, with an unexpected twist.

If you like films that keep you guessing, and in this case, make you go back and watch some of it again, just to see how they came up with such an original slant, then this film is for you.

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Well, at least they got the title right.

A customer from Darlington England , 17/02/2007

Chaotic it certainly is: not only a plot which twists and turns upon itself, but a thoroughly confusing technique of unsignalled flashbacks, which are essential to understanding what is going on. As the story hangs on one woman impersonating another, and as I, for one, couldn't tell one woman from the other anyway, this didn't help. A cop-out ending concludes a shallow and unsatisfying movie experience. The pace is slow and the action curiously muted considering that it involves a kidnapping, police involvement, murder, burial and disinternment, and the dialogue (at least as conveyed by the subtitles) is lifeless and unconvincing. One of those films which professional critics love but leaves bread-and-butter audiences out in the cold.

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Excellent film noir

TristanWhite [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/11/2005

Very very clever film, gripping. You have to pay real close attention to everything, especially in first fifteen minutes, as it helps to understand the very confusing story. Don't worry, you're MEANT to be confused. And you're also MEANT to understand everything by the end. There are some things however that take a lot of working out, but in the end it all fell into place making this one of the best Japanese films I've seen (although Nobody Knows was perhaps a touch better). Certainly the best Nakata, by a mile. I dread to think how Hollywood will butcher this with Robert de Niro and Benicio del Toro next year. I wish they'd think up some of their own ideas. Although at least Jonathan 'Sexy Beast' Glazer is directing, so it shouldn't be as bad as some remakes!

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Chaos rules. Not in a good way.

adiw from Leicestershire [Highly rated reviewer] , 28/03/2005

Give the man a canvas and he'll create a masterpiece. Or at least, that's what they will have you believe.

Ringu was a work of art, make no mistake about it. When it comes to influence and intensity, few could match the effect that a single movie would have on the Global population and the way that they continue to watch horror movies. Ringu defied expectation and opened the door to a whole new breed of terror.

Dark Water merely hammered home the fact.

Chaos is a big change in direction and the flaws soon become obvious. Not that it's a bad movie, Chaos brings with it enough twists and turns to make even Hitchcock nautious. But sadly, when it comes to creating an entertaining night in Chaos offers nothing new at the table and leaves you with a sense of wanting.

The plot twists are less than inspiring and Hideo fails to rise above the ruins.

A change of pace indeed. Let me know when the screaming starts...

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