Chaos - The movie - Not as good

So after seeing a Jason Statham movie I had never heard of before, (Wild Card) and enjoying it so much, I found another one that had slipped my notice. This one was called Chaos, costarring Wesley Snipes. It was free On Demand, and I checked it out.

Sure, it was good, (as is any movie with Jason Statham,) and Wesley Snipes makes a good bad guy, and he did in this movie too, but there were problems. This movie had too many holes in it. Sure the twist in the end (spoiler alert) did come as a surprise to me, as it turned out that Statham and Snipes were working together the whole time. But since they were former police partners, (and current crime partners) it didn't make sense that Snipes was going off the deep end throughout the movie.

I guess they had to have it that way so Snipes could be killed at the end and Statham gets all the money, but I think the writing could have been better, and should have been better. I would have come away from the movie feeling a lot better if it had been.

Okay, it was a good movie, but look at it this way. Snipes was an ex-cop. Now the movie didn't reveal that until the movie was almost over. So the viewers didn't get a clue as to his relationship to Statham the whole time. Otherwise viewers might have made that deduction. But once it was revealed, it didn't make sense that Snipes was killing people throughout the movie.

He shot a bank teller in cold blood in the beginning. He was killing his other crime partners left and right throughout, or trying to. And he was trying to kill the young hero cop in the end, too. It was predictable the young hero cop prevailed and Snipes bit the dust, but again, it didn't make sense to turn him into a cold blooded killer. He used to be a cop for goodness sake.

So, in the end, the real hero, Jason Statham gets away with all the money, and the viewers are supposed to be pleased, since the viewers are most probably Jason Statham fans, like me. But again, even though I am a Statham fan, and Statham gets away with the money, and lives happily ever after, I would have preferred the end being reached with a more realistic or more believable means to that end. Instead they turned Snipes into a mad dog, and if he hadn't been a cop, maybe I could have bought into that. But he was. So I didn't.