Besides film work, Reeves retreated briefly to the theatre playing Prince Hamlet in a 1995 Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[78] The Sunday Times critic Roger Lewis believed his performance, writing he “quite embodied the innocence, the splendid fury, the animal grace of the leaps and bounds, the emotional violence, that form the Prince of Denmark … He is one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet”.[79] In 1996, Reeves was soon drawn to science fiction roles, appearing in Chain Reaction with co-stars Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn and Brian Cox. He plays a researcher of a green energy project, who has to go on the run when he is framed for murder. The film gained a mostly negative reaction; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 16% and described it as “a man-on-the-run thriller that mostly sticks to generic formula”.[80] Reeves’s film choices after Chain Reaction were also critical disappointments. He starred in the independent crime comedy Feeling Minnesota, with Vincent D’Onofrio and Cameron Diaz, which was described as “shoddily assembled, and fundamentally miscast” by Rotten Tomatoes.[81]
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