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.
Chill Factor (1999)
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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... 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 from prison and is out for vengeance. The means? Yes, the very same weapon, which must in fact stay at a temperature 50 degrees or colder or it will detonate. Enter an ice cream truck driver (Gooding) and a drifter (Ulrich), who with the help of the scientist (Paymer) who designed the weapon, are determined to keep it cold and out of the wrong hands. [More]
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer
Director: Hugh Johnson
Director: Hugh Johnson
Screenwriter: Drew Gitlin, Mike Cheda
Producer: James G. Robinson
Composer: Hans Zimmer, John Powell
Reviews for Chill Factor
Cuba, got a minute? We've gotta talk! Your career has been pretty amazing, but you have to be careful.
It's hard to believe that a film this weightless would waste so much time on setting up the premise, then never exploit the premise.
Chill Factor is a typical action movie with an atypical hook: Not many action movies give advice on trout fishing.
Chill Factor has no aspirations to be anything but what it is: a live action-adventure cartoon stuffed with macho banter, decorated with weaponry and charged with enough cliffhangers to stir up some adrenaline.
Ineptly written, ideologically muddled and unintentionally hilarious!
The type of strictly formulaic buddy-action-comedy that should have slipped through the cracks and gone to straight-to-video hell.
Ulrich and Gooding have been effective in other roles in other movies, but neither has the distinctive spark of an action hero.
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