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Chain Reaction
MEANRANK
47/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5465
- IMDb #5003
- Rotten Tomatoes #4981
- Letterboxd #4892
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5195
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4995
+5 more
- Metacritic Critics #4056
- Criticker #3796
- Kinopoisk #4464
- AlloCiné #5046
- Trakt #4576
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 18, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 30, everyone else 52.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two university researchers working on a revolutionary energy project are framed for the murder of their mentor and the theft of their own technology. Forced to go on the run from the FBI and the real killers, they must use their scientific knowledge to evade capture and uncover a powerful conspiracy that wants to suppress their world-changing discovery for its own profit.
Details
- Director
- Andrew Davis
- Writers
- Arne Schmidt, J.F. Lawton, Josh Friedman, Michael Bortman, Rick Seaman
- Released
- 2 August 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $60.2M
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