The makers were certainly never aiming for the cerebral, but nonetheless seem happy from the outset to simply cobble together a couple of action staples and hope it'll all work out. Strangely enough, it doesn't.
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01/01/00
Chill Factor (1999)
7
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:5
Rotten:67
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Claiming it fails on every level, critics had almost nothing good to say about this movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: 10 years after an army accident involving a chemical weapon with the power to fry the skin off every living thing within a five mile radius, the army major who wrongly took the blame is released... [More]
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer
Director: Hugh Johnson
Reviews for Chill Factor
Top CriticThe atmosphere is winning, with the odd felicity peppering the journey with gags and groans.
02/09/06
Top CriticNeither Ulrich's brooding intensity nor Gooding's funky panic act (he whines throughout the stunt work) add much to the enterprise.
12/02/02
Tightly-coiled silliness.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt really is so bad that it's good.
01/01/00
Each and every action scene is stolen from some other movie.
05/26/06
Ulrich and Gooding have been effective in other roles in other movies, but neither has the distinctive spark of an action hero.
01/01/00
Dull and uninteresting.
01/01/00
Director Hugh Johnson's plot is predictable and even Cuba Gooding Jr.'s charismatic presence can't salvage this flick.
01/01/00
A brain-dead action flick if there ever was one.
01/01/00
Ulrich and Gooding just don't click as comic antagonists / buddies.
01/01/00
Tediously predictable!
01/01/00
There’s one standout action scene, but the other parts perfunctorily connect the dots.
01/01/00
Gooding plays the worst role I've ever seen him play in a movie!
01/01/00
The chases and shootouts and close calls seem sort of flat and tired, barely raising a jitter in your belly.
01/01/00
We've been here before and it's been done better, much better.
04/09/05
With so much time wasted on bad jokes and frivolous plot forwarding, there is not enough bang to raise the temperature of Chill Factor above lukewarm.
01/01/00
We might have gotten funnier turns from Gooding and Ulrich if their performances weren't so chopped up. As such, their banter becomes merely something to be suffered through until we get to the next big explosion. Which is coming. Fast.
01/01/00
Note to struggling actors everywhere: if you think winning an Academy Award will make your career spring to life, look at the career of Cuba Gooding Jr.
01/01/00
A waste of time and talent!
01/01/00
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