PodBill Just what I expected

GazerRise Fantastic!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

mattbaxter72 Most bad movies at least have something going for them, something that makes you want to sit through them, even though you know they're rubbish. It's a rare film that is so thoroughly messed up in every department that it's literally unwatchable. That, plus the frankly bizarre premise, gives this thing some novelty value, if nothing else.The premise is probably the best thing about it. Think Saw crossed with An Inconvenient Truth, with gratuitous nudity and gratuitous sweaty Eric Roberts. With a plot like that, it could have been a camp classic, but unfortunately everyone took it very seriously, for some reason, almost as though they really thought that this movie would carry a serious message about global warming.Val Kilmer, above all, is VERY, VERY SERIOUS. He mumbles and stumbles his way through an embarrassing performance, but he's still the best member of a dire cast of non-actors and mugging over-actors. The quality of the camera-work suggests that someone just learned how to use the special features on Windows Movie Maker, and the dialogue seems to have been written by someone who has never heard English spoken before.It's a challenge to sit through this deeply silly, but deeply self-serious movie. Really, you've got much better things to do with your time.

Bob_the_Hobo Surprised by how much I actually enjoyed a cast that included three former Gods who are failing nowadays-Val Kilmer, Eric Roberts, and Armand Assante. It doesn't seem like they can even get a credit in a theatrical release anymore.Kilmer plays a mad-scientist type of doctor who walks into a newspaper and announces to the editor that he has six people trapped in a steam room (at 130 degrees), and he'll only let them out if the secret to global warming is let out, presumably by him. The editor calls Assante's character -a cop- for help, and so begins a long, arduous process, with nods to the people trapped inside (including Roberts) slowly losing it because of the heat.Again, a surprisingly enjoyable film. The twists and turns, while a bit confusing, were on the whole intriguing and involving. The acting is really, really good, especially by the aforemented trio. Kilmer has put on considerable weight but ironically this added to his mystery. Assante does a great job as the cop, one of his best performances in years probably. Ditto for Roberts.I wasn't looking for too much but all in all I found "The Chaos/Steam Experiment" an involving and interesting little mystery. Definitely a recommended DTV flick for your buck.

solon-stewart Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. I asked my neighbor for a movie to borrow. He has been watching the classics like The Shining. He proceeds to give me this piece of crud. I'm kinda mad at him for that. This was literally one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Just a bunch of disjointed scenes of the steam bath and then a dumb looking Kilmer twitching around with some lame horny cop. They just had this one girl take off her top just to show some boobs. No point to the story, no real reason for it, except for having nudity. And what was the point of the experiment anyways? If it got hot people would not just start going completely bonkers and killing each other. They would try to get out. And that rarely happened. No one died from the heat (which Val Kilmer kept harping on...Do you know what happens at 130 deg? Your Lungs melt, your eyes explode.) I knew it was going to be terrible just looking at the cover, and once it started i realized within the intro music. For some reason i watched the whole movie, only to see it end with some dumb ending that tries to have a big twist that makes you think. The only thing it made me do was boo. And I was in my bedroom. Please, save yourself 90 minutes, and never watch this film. boo

Scarecrow-88 Val Kilmer stars as a lunatic, having escaped a mental hospital who claims to a newspaper editor that he has trapped six people in a steam room. The film, like Armand Asante's detective, wonder if this is a fictitious claim formed from a delusional mind, or a true event that took place. While Asante questions Kilmer, trying to get answers as to whether or not what he says is true, the film alternates between the interrogation room(..which is actually big and vast, empty and drab)and those trapped, in horror, in the steam room. Kilmer, to his credit, has his character constantly jerking, his eyes often cold and lost, with moments that seem to be spoken in perfect clarity while other times has him spouting scientific psycho-babble about global warning, 2012, and his experiment regarding how humans would react to a crisis with little hope of survival..so we aren't ever sure if he's correct or false, until the final scene which sheds some light on if it was possible there was indeed such an experiment.There are three men, three women "chosen" to participate(..against their will, invited to what they conceive is winning a sweepstakes providing them comfort in a luxurious Grand Hotel on the eve before prepared renovations), and they arrive wearing their personalities on their sleeve..we know the kind of people they represent, little is really established in the means of exposition, except introductions to each other, getting acquainted, and not very long after the group finds that they are trapped in the steam room. Once they discover their peril, hope of escape slowly dwindles. Sufficed to say, tempers flare(..plenty of egos among the group), tensions mount, solitude disintegrating quickly when violence erupts as accusations start building an intense wave of negative emotion until people are attacking each other resulting in various murders and suicides.The group consists of Eric Roberts(..as an ex-football player whose career took a dive after an accident he caused), Megan Brown(..as an ex-actress and lonely heart romantic), Patrick Muldoon(..as a widower who attempts to calm the storm when fireworks ignite), Cordelia Reynolds(..as a neurotic author/poet on the edge of insanity), Eve Mauro(..as a tough-talking, antagonistic waitress whose attitude masks insecurity), and Quinn Duffy(..as a cock-sure, vulgar restaurant owner, or so he says, who considers himself quite the catch, whose claustrophobia explodes into a frightening monster willing to obliterate anybody who might've trapped him in the steam room).The film was a pain for me to watch due to that yellow color scheme that often accompanies the use of a Digital camera, particularly in the steam room. The filmmakers go out of their way to heighten an emotional crescendo escalating from what panic and fear can cause, and the aftermath as bodies start to pile up and everyone loses their minds. There are a lot of different opinions and points-of-view regarding involvement in the experiment, when it occurred, and how it was constructed..you'll have to decide for yourself. Basically, this is another Saw variation, resembling other films including Cube, House of 9, even a latest one I recently watched, The Killing Room..there's a whole genre of movies where humans are trapped, soon attacking each other or needing to escape a crisis developed by a diabolical madman or team of psychos. It's interesting seeing Asante and Kilmer in their game to uncover if he's telling the truth or not.