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ridiculous rating

good back-story, and good acting

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This fast-paced, intelligent parable about sexual equality took me completely by surprise--I know a movie really works for me when I forget to check the clock or get snacks or just nod off. This is a chase film of a sort, and a whodunit--but much more. Even before the titles, the thriller grabs the viewer with a scene of bloody violence, simultaneously contrasted with the insensitivity of those who exist in a bubble of wealth: the pace does not slacken, although the violence does.The director has given each character time to expand, and, if they choose, to grow. It's true that most of the men in the film are shown to be beasts who think women chattel, but every film has a point of view, and this one is handled with a good deal of humor, with superb performances by a cast of relative unknowns; The tone of this offbeat character-driven romp reminds me of an Almodovar film without the craziness and eccentricity, but with a similar transcendent sense of empowerment.

I was rather disappointed with this movie that seemed to have much to offer and I will not subscribe to the 7 average rating it carries here. As some one said before at first it seems to promise much and then it really becomes chaotic and unbelievable, I would add, at time a little boring predictable and definitely too long. As a male gender I did not really got offended or embarrassed by the depiction and generalisation of our gender but thought it was rather unnecessary. And for those who applause the tragic topic of forced prostitution treatment it gives, personally I would have prefer a more serious approach to it as I found, at time, it tended to trivialise it. Yes I did laugh and or became a little curious, but it amazes me how some reviewers turn it into something very special. Ordinary I'm a little biased toward French films "having been French" for more than a quarter of a century, then left France for some 45 years and somehow miss it a little like an old girlfriend! But even this did not help me to see more in this film. I was looking forward to see V Lindon, and C Frot I did admire in other works but here was not really impressed. It was a pleasure to see Line Renaud that I knew and loved only as a singer of my early years. Rachida Brakini does a reasonable job. But somehow the whole is not as good for me as some of part of it.

This is one of my favorite films of all times! It is suspensful, you are on the edge of your seat for the entire film. Just when you think the plot can't thicken any more it gets even more thick! It is one of the few films I have seen where I never looked at my watch. Don't miss it!

It's funny; the two best films I've seen this year (sadly, CHAOS has only just made it to the Midwest United States in 2003), are both from France. Not only that, but none of the American films I've seen thus far even come close to this or Gaspar Noe's IRREVERSIBLE. Maybe we should rethink that stupid freedom fries thing and go seek out some real culture. CHAOS is a great film, a film that wastes no time. It starts with a bang when an Algerian prostitute named Noemie begs for a ride from Paul and his wife Helene as they drive by the scene of her merciless beating at the hands of three pimps. Paul locks the doors and, after the pimps have gone, leaving Noemie unconscious, gets out of the car only to wipe the windshield clean of the inconvenient blood Noemie has spilled upon it. A perfect opening to this film, showing the frailty of women at the hands of dominating men, and the inhumanity and selfishness of said men. As a human of the male persuasion myself, I was surprised to not feel any resentment toward the film's representation of manhood. It does not try to convince the viewer that all men are like this; just all the men in this film. At the same time, many men might feel uncomfortable at the incisiveness of the film's characterizations. At one point Helene says, "Not all men are bastards"; Noemie merely shrugs and smirks ever so slightly. It is more telling than a thousand words.