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Chill Factor

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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

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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.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide

Cuba, got a minute? We've gotta talk! Your career has been pretty amazing, but you have to be careful.

Full Review Source: Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Scott A. Mantz
Scott A. Mantz
Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews

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.

Full Review Source: Scott Renshaw's Screening Room | comment Comment
01/01/00
Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw's Screening Room

Chill Factor isn't a bad action movie -- it's just an utterly forgettable one.

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01/01/00
Sean Means
Sean Means
Film.com

Chill Factor is a typical action movie with an atypical hook: Not many action movies give advice on trout fishing.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com

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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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Preposterous and ridiculous!

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01/01/00
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

Ineptly written, ideologically muddled and unintentionally hilarious!

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
01/01/00
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider
Orlando Weekly

Ulrich and Gooding just don't click as comic antagonists / buddies.

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01/01/00
Steven Boone
Steven Boone
Citysearch

A substandard ebony-and-ivory buddy pic!

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01/01/00
Susan Wloszczyna
Susan Wloszczyna
USA Today

The type of strictly formulaic buddy-action-comedy that should have slipped through the cracks and gone to straight-to-video hell.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
01/01/00
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Ulrich and Gooding have been effective in other roles in other movies, but neither has the distinctive spark of an action hero.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
01/01/00
William Arnold
William Arnold
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
 
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