Jason Statham is brought back on to the police force to chase Wesley Snipes who stages a spectacular bank robbery. Paired with Ryan Phillipe things begin to get weird as they are forced to look for a pattern in the chaos that Snipes is causing.

Better than you think it will be action thriller. Don't let the by the numbers opening and early moments put you off. Once this gets going its a really good little thriller because it doesn't behave in the ways you expect it too. indeed there are a couple of twists that really surprised me. And of course the action scenes are very well done. I liked it a great deal. Worth some popcorn on the couch

Chaos looks like a bog standard B film with two action stars but it has a twist or two up its sleeve but it stills makes for a lacklustre film with shades of Inside Man.

Jason Statham plays Quentin Connors a suspended cop when a hostage situation went wrong and is recalled to action to deal with a bank robber (Wesley Snipes) who broke into a bank and left without stealing a penny.

Connors is teamed up with a rookie played by Ryan Phillippe who gives the film acting credibility and comes into his own in the second half of the film when Connors is off the scene.

Its a derivative low rent action film which had budgetary problems during filming. Snipes plays a glorified cameo who literally phones in his performance and it has to employ flashbacks for the film's plot to make sense as well as unravel its twist and turns.

The title alludes to chaos theory which is in fact employed by the robbers in this film as the bank robbery is a diversion for a more elaborate techno heist. Maybe they should had got Jeff Goldblum in to explain the plot.

In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. When a bank is heist with hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation having the rookie Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe) as partner. The thieves, leaded by Lorenz (Wesley Snipes),apparently do no steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team discloses that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the most different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices.

"Chaos" is a great police story, with an excellent and complex screenplay that uses the Chaos Theory to build the plot. This theory attempts to explain the fact that a series of initial minor events apparently not interconnected can trigger a sequence of significant occurrences, producing unpredictable and complex result. Based in this principle, the viewer must pay attention to any single detail since the beginning of the story, because they probably will affect the conclusion when the plot is disclosed. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Caos" ("Chaos")