Load of rubbish!!

How sad is this?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The good: Kilmer pulls off a fairly believable psychopath, and there are some really great performances from those in the steam room, although they sometimes border on the "over-dramatic" rather than "convincing".The music is not bad too, always reflective of the mood without becoming too invasive to the action on screen.The bad: Firstly, some of the scenes are quite drawn out with no sense of progression. Some of the steam room scenes are difficult to stick with, in particular one excessively long scene towards the end of the film. During this scene I looked at my watch to see how long was left on the viewing time - not a good sign if I was meant to be engrossed in the story.Secondly, the method which the story unfolds seems fairly underwhelming. It felt as though there was more potential for the plot to thicken, particularly from those in the steam room. The captives also seem to have their own designated "turn" at falling apart/going mad, which is overall quite unconvincing and ultimately predictable.So in conclusion, there are some good scenes, but this is not a film I will actively recommend to friends.

This movie is also known as "The Chaos Experiment" - and I thought that alternative title really sums this up quite well. It's really quite a chaotic movie which has much greater potential than it ever came close to fulfilling. Val Kilmer plays a man named Jimmy who as the movie opens walks into a newspaper office and tells the editor that unless his story about global warming is printed, he's going to kill 6 people he has locked up inside a steam room by turning up the heat, so to speak, to demonstrate the chaos that will erupt between them and show what he believes is going to eventually happen in the world due to global warming. The movie then goes back and forth from Jimmy to the steam room, as he's questioned by a cop played by Armand Assante who tries to find out where the 6 are.The premise is somewhat interesting. One of the major problems with the movie, though, is that - aside from the plight they find themselves in - there's no particular reason given to care for any of the six in the steam room. The characters are never really fleshed out, aside from a very brief introduction they give to each other in the movie's early stages, before they realize their situation. So we get a few seconds of each giving us their likes and dislikes and telling us where they're from. But for this movie to really work, we need to know more about them; we need to care about them - and frankly, we don't. There's even suspicion throughout (probably deliberate) about whether any of it is actually true, or whether it's just a delusion inside Jimmy's head.The idea was interesting. It just didn't work very well.

Another clanger from Val Kilmer. I watch many movies and this was one of the most disjointed I've seen for a long time. Kilmer plays some kind of nut-case, but it's never really clear what he wants (even the maddest of people could be more lucid), Armand Assante mumbled his way through the movie so even if he had something interesting to say, you couldn't understand it and the scenes in the steam room were muddled and not at all suspenseful. Kilmer stared bleakly, twitched and fidgeted to show how mad he was, but it came across as just a parody. It was such a mess that at the end of the movie you couldn't figure out who was the real psycho and who was the victim. At what little climax there was, you were left feeling let down and unmoved. Definitely not worth watching unless you are desperate.

I agree with almost all the reviews. The movie, which did keep my interest and was worth a watch, wasn't the best I've ever seen. However, nobody seems to get the ending. The doctor at the hospital (and his wife) were the two people that survived the steam room. They survived because they were plants and working with Val Kilmer. They were in the steam room as part of the experiment to see (and be) the human chaos up front. So the third to last surviver was correct (and not delusional) when he suspected them. Apparently, this doctor became interested in Val Kilmer's experiment and chose to help him carry it out. However, the doctor's motives were not to stop global warming but to better understand by being a part of the human social breakdown (either that or he and his wife were just out for some sick thrills).