Chain Reaction (film)

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Chain Reaction
Directed by	Andrew Davis
Produced by	Andrew Davis Keanu Reeves
Starring	Keanu Reeves Rachel Weisz Morgan Freeman Fred Ward
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	2 August 1996 (premiere)
Running time	106 min.
Language	English
Budget	USD$55,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Chain Reaction is a 1996 film starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman and Fred Ward. It presents a fictional account of the invention of bubble fusion using sonoluminescence (the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound).

[edit] Plot

Eddie (Reeves) and Lily (Weisz) are part of a research team that has made a discovery of bubble fusion. One evening, Eddie returns to the lab late to find that his boss has been murdered and his experiment has been rigged to explode like an atomic bomb. Eddie flees the scene, and soon learns that he and Lily have been set up by someone who doesn't want their breakthrough discovery to become public. Soon the police upon investigation find a million dollars in Eddie's name and suspect that he has murdered and triggered the bomb blast.

[edit] Film Production

Large portions of the film were shot on location in and around Chicago, Illinois, including Argonne National Laboratory, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Michigan Avenue. There are also scenes that are shot at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin and on Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin. In addition, there were also scenes filmed at Inland Steel (now known as MITTAL Steel) which is located in East Chicago, Indiana.

[edit] Reviews

According to the website Rotten Tomatoes, only 7% of major movie reviews of the movie Chain Reaction were favorable.

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