Wow! Such a good movie.

Very best movie i ever watch

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I watched this film the other day - it was on Sky movies and I decided to check it out. Basically Salma Hayek is a detective for a case about the ancient Chinese coins stolen from a museum, the 'Shiney New Enemies'. The bloke from Road Kill is the main guy - a suicidal hairdresser - and he plays the part so well. Elijah Wood plays a 'hard-boy' hit-man, but really he's just a big softie. The hairdresser comes across these coins after 'killing' the man who stole them, somewhat accidentally. His nephew Scottie swallows them and he wants to take Scottie to France to 'fence' the coins, which will be pooed out in 24 hours or so. It reminded me of a cross between All I Want (or Try 17 in the US) and... er... a crime movie. Very well worth watching!

Chain of fools is just funny and crazy! I've bought the dvd, cause i wasn't able to find anyone having or even knowing this little film. And i cannot understand this! This movie is sooo underrated!The story is about Kresk, a real loser, played perfect and really funny by Steve Zahn, and what happens to him after he has heard about a real good plan to get a lot of money. His wife left him, he is very bad in his job as a barber, his friends are crazy, his sisters son hates him, and everything goes wrong for him, so he has nothing to loose! And on one very bad day, the story beginns...and goes on funny, strange and, ok, sometimes a little unrealistic.The cast is brilliant. Steve Zahn looks so crazy, and plays his character very good. Salma Hayek, playing good too, is just hot in here. Orlando Jones as Drag-Queen - oh my god! And Elijah Wood in a not so typical role for him - a teenage killer - or should i say "wanna-be-killer"!If you like crazy and funny films with great actors, you would like to see in their maybe funniest roles ever, go and rent this little film!8/10

The movie industry never ceases to amaze me. How can it be that such a gem as this can be hidden away for so long and only be shown in scattered parts of the globe? It is a travesty and a huge mistake on someone's part. I know for a fact that this movie would go down a storm in the U.K. Yet, three years after it was made, it has never been seen in a British cinema, never been released on video or DVD in Britain and has not yet been shown on TV either. I had to buy a video tape from Australia!But, make no mistake, this movie is unique and an absolutely brilliant comedy. It is a chapter of accidents, in which nothing ever goes according to plan and the flashbacks, where events are constantly changing, are a hoot.To me personally, the Orlando Jones, Miss Cocoa character was a bit pointless, but some would no doubt find him amusing. Otherwise, the characters were a treat and superbly played. I single out Steve Zahn who was excellent as the bungling barber, Kresk; Elijah Wood who made me ache with laughter as a "hitman", the new kid on the block; Jeff Goldblum as the wicked Avnet; Tom Wilkinson as the English scoundrel, Bollingsworth; and Salma Hayek who could arrest me anytime. But,oh, Devin Drewitz! Devin Drewitz, was terrific as the hyperactive, Scottie. He was never still for an instant. Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, but Dennis the Menace had nothing on this kid. Remember the name! The kid will go far.

The Traktor team has been around a while, creating commercial spots for the media, now moving into directing film (none forthcoming, as one of them said yesterday at a promotional screening) and music videos (Fatboy Slim being the next victim), thus being newcomers on the scene of cinema, while they really are not.The film is as fractioned as "Magnolia", "Pulp Fiction" and "A Life Less Ordinary", but that may also be its stronghold. The film mostly circles a barber (Steve Zahn) whose wife (Lara Flynn Boyle) has just left him, when a nervous-looking gangster (Jeff Goldblum) enters the shop, asking for a haircut.Saying more than this would be spoiling the film a bit, as the plot is not presented chronologically, and it has to do with everyone trying to get hold of three very valuable Ming-dynasty coins.Many archetypes are displayed, e.g. the gangster, the hysterical ex wife and the stiff upper-lipped englishman (Tom Wilkinson), although some quite interesting characters are in place, e.g. a 17-year-old hit-man (Elijah Wood), a Police Inspector who has graced herself in Playboy (Salma Hayek) and a very nasty Timber Scout Leader (David Cross).The film loses tempo from time to time, but recaptures it with the help of the characters and the back-and-forth switching in time and place which makes up for the general lack of story. The film does appeal with its simplicity, and Zahn does a great job with playing the loser, as do others of the cast. The soundtrack is varied and tense, not giving away "commercial spots" for known artists, but alternative rock and some actionesque dance tracks.Making up for the dark humor of the film, there is a lot of slapstick and also wordplay, probably a stab at Quentin Tarantino's dialogue, but here it's more earth-bound and close to heart. You won't hear any "Royale with cheese"-drops here.All in all, this is a decent action/romance-film, although there is not much romance. There is more action in this film than in your general Hollywood ones though, giving way to a lot of different screening locations, a very varied spectrum of characters, dialogue that feels real, an OK story and a good soundtrack. Go see it as an easy-going action flick that presumably won't change your movie-going taste, but will leave you with the desire for more "mainstream" films striving for what "Chain Of Fools" has achieved.