Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Michael Ledo This movie did so well as "The Chaos Experiment" they renamed it "The Steam Experiment" and re-released it. After the original came out, the state of California reacted to the film and made it illegal for Eric Roberts and Val Kilmer to be in a movie together for the greater good of humanity.Val Kilmer shows up at a Grand Rapids newspaper and wants his manifesto published on how global warming is going to destroy the world in 2012. He claims he has 6 people held hostage in a steam bath and they are going to die. The police are called in and the movie swaps back and forth between the steam room and the police interrogation, neither of which has enough drama, acting, or clever script to hold my attention. Once Eve Mauro put her top back on, the movie was over for me. Oh yeah, there is a twist at the end which only makes the movie worse, if that is possible.Doesn't work as a horror, drama, action, or thriller.F-bomb, nudity, a mouthy Italian, and a cop with a pinkie ring.

Floop1977 Let's keep this short and sweet. This movie is a total disaster. The plot makes no sense at all. The acting is dreadful. The writing is appalling. The music is absurd. The production must have been disastrous, as the movie is only 90 minutes long yet there are an enormous amount of padded super-slow-motion scenes. One scene was over FIVE MINUTES LONG, of nothing but actors gurning in slow motion while some pompous over-bearing music droned on. The ending is ridiculous. All in all, a total fail of a movie. I would have rather watched adverts for 90 minutes. The people involved in making this should never be allowed to make another movie again.

cs35 The ending is neither confusing or Dr Mabusian - just one that has been used before. I saw it coming when the Psych staff arrived. Notice that at least three of the people at the mental hospital - the woman who comes to get him, the doctor and his wife - are the same people who were supposedly in the steam room. That makes the ending quite clear. Val is having another hallucination. He has used people that he knows from the mental hospital as characters in his Chaos scenario. The 'human chaos' that the doctor refers to is that residing in Kilmer himself. A very stylish film with an excellent cast. Only real problem is that the violence was gratuitous. They could have implied rather than show the more gruesome things.

dbborroughs Confused and confusing story of a deranged Val Kilmer setting up an experiment that global warming will lead to madness by locking six people in a steam room. Armand Assante is the cop trying to get to the bottom if it all. Middle of the road movie with a good cast, even if Kilmer's performance is a bit too "twitchy". Its nice to see a bunch of actors trying to sell the odd material they've been handed. The problem is that the film thinks the confused plot and trippy visuals will make up for the central story that seems to be lacking in real explanation. I'm more disappointed than anything else, especially with the ending that seems to come out of a Dr Mabuse movie. Chaos is right. Worth a look for the actors if you're so inclined.