Chain Reaction

"It wasn't a great experience. We were making this expensive summer movie and we had these 10 writers on the set every day making it up as we went along."

-Calgary Sun, July 30, 1996

"Chain Reaction taught me how to fall and bounce."

-Calgary Sun, July 30, 1996

"This movie had the benefit of not having a script, but a lot of good ideas, and being able to work with Andrew Davis and Morgan Freeman. Those are the reasons I'm here."

-Entertainment Tonight, Jan/Feb 1996

(about his and Rachel Wiez's characters) "We only have exploding labs. The relational journey is: we work together; we get framed for this explosion and the death of a professor. First we're strangers, then friends, then brother/sister, then heroes. We'll see at the end if there's a little romance."

-Entertainment Tonight, Jan/Feb 1996

"It was the hardest film I've ever done. It involved one and a half months of solid running, climbing and jumping. I think I said, 'Come on' a million times!"

-Film Review, December 1996

"For Speed I trained hard, but this time around I didn't do any work-outs. I play a lab technician, so I didn't want to look like a traditional action hero. I wanted to be kind of heavy, and I had my hair long and greasy. Even the way I run, I tried to do like someone who doesn't run much."

-Film Review, December 1996

(about his character) "My mentor is murdered because he wants to give the information away for free, and I'm framed for the murder and the sabotage of the laboratory. One event leads to another and to another, like a chain reaction."

-Film Review, December 1996

"I always considered Chain Reaction more of a drama than an action piece. There used to be more scenes in the film that had more dialogue in them, but unfortunately they got in the way of the chase."

-Film Review, December 1996

"I was attracted to the journey Eddie has to make because he's a young man who has to run for his life from people he thought he could trust. Also, there's a good balance between explosions and chase sequences and some intellectual and moral questions being asked."

-Film Review, December 1996

"We filmed during one of the coldest winters in recent memory. Several nights the temperature was 44 degrees below zero. A couple of times my hands and my flesh froze. Andrew screamed 'Keep going!' and I went, 'But my hands are about to shatter!"'

-Film Review, December 1996

"I was mentally and physically exhausted after this film. In fact, that's why I decided not to do Speed 2. I couldn't face another action film right away. I needed to take a long break to recuperate."

-Film Review, December 1996

"When I was making 'Chain Reaction,' I didn't think it was going to be a big action picture. I signed on early just on the basis of the idea and the director. But it kind of went in a direction I was not expecting. I thought it was going to be dram-action; but I think some of the drama stayed in there."

-LA Daily News, Friday, August 2, 1996

"I really like action movies when they're good. 'Chain Reaction' has a chase movie formula, but all the actors' and the director's efforts were in trying to make a realistic picture. It was just a real collaboration to figure out which kind of action picture this is going to be. It's formulaic in its way, but I think the subject matter is certainly worthwhile."

-LA Daily News, Friday, August 2, 1996

"It's not bad. At least it has some content to it. It was a real battle between the action aspect of it and the drama of it, but I think we did OK. I miss some of the humanity in it, but I guess that sort of stuff just takes too much time. Let's get back to the chase scene, you know what I mean? I call them "follow-the-carrot" movies, but, as those movies go, I mean, Morgan Freeman is excellent, and it's shot really well."

-Rough Cut, September 1996

-Rough Cut, September 1996

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