Review of Chaos Theory (2008) by Philip D — 10 Jul 2012

This is one of those films that has you constantly unintentionally frustrated by allowing the audience to know way too much before we should because you spend the downtime of the film figuring out what's about to happen before it happens.

There's a moment where you find out that the wife has cheated on her husband and then quickly accuses her husband of such things by default resenting her because she's angry, kicking him out of the house when we already know it's a misunderstanding and she is the real cheater.

Then we find out that the husband is sterile which causes complications because they have a 7 year-old daughter, but we've already figured out that it was her lover from the earlier scenes. It seems for something like this the information is badly distributed, but in reality that's all the movie has going for it plot-wise and you're stuck with these half-baked plot hooks.

But for the most part, it's not so horrible because we're supposed to shut off our brains completely with this and only focus on the tragic irony of it all and that's short lived.