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.
