Chaos (2006)

The one thing I thought would be interesting to study closer (not in this movie though) is the shifting of heroes. The way that a guy is established as a hero at the beginning only to have someone else gradually take the focus. I can imagine a number of ways to do this and I've seen something like this in several films. In this one it is so disappointingly obvious that one should think of how to avoid doing it like this. The blueprint for this movies goes something like this: the initial policeman-hero, naturally blamed by the whole world, is called back to duty one more time for an extraordinary case - a bank robbery where the robbers asked specifically for him as a negociator. We know he is the hero because everybody gives him lots of attention and he is openly blamed only by people we don't like. Coincidentally a new guy, with pedigree, enters the police force as his partner. In the end the initial hero turns out to be the bad guy and the new guy turns out to be smart enough to find that out. Oh...and it looks like Lorentz's Chaos Theory is very popular with the American police right now.