“Chameleon” (** out of four) was a turgid melodrama about an ex-con (Joel Hogan) fresh out of prison who returns to a lifestyle of crime with his former cellmate (Donald Prebatah) involving scamming wives and their husbands in L.A. but their games soon attract the attention of a hard-nosed cop (Alicia Leigh Willis) who attempts to bring them down. Familiar story of lowlifes and cops never rises above the mire and remains mild through-out without ever taking off. Elegiac music score by Jeremy Nathan Tisser is a definite plus. Inauspicious feature-length directing debut for music video director Marcus Mizelle.