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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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Mar 21, 2000

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The worst and most unintentionally hysterical rip-off of Speed yet!

Full Review Source: Planet Sick-Boy | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

Chill Factor is just the kind of failed action picture one expects to see during these final days of August.

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01/01/00
Karen Hershenson
Karen Hershenson
Contra Costa Times

After winning a well-deserved Oscar for his role as a high-strung football player in Jerry Maguire, this talented actor has become an intolerable screen presence.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
01/01/00
Kevin Maynard
Kevin Maynard
Mr. Showbiz
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Technical credits are superior, the scenery is gorgeous, but Chill Factor, for all its virtuoso calamities, is just another demolition derby.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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An utterly unmemorable piece of dreck that centers on an explosive substance nearly as toxic as this movie.

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01/01/00
Madeleine Williams
Madeleine Williams
Cinematter

Lackluster!

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01/01/00
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Mark Dinning
Mark Dinning
Empire Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Tightly-coiled silliness.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
01/01/00
Michael Thomson
Michael Thomson
BBC

Chill Factor is a picture well below zero, a thriller that confuses pace with tension and wisecracks with humor.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
01/01/00
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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This movie should come in a white box with a generic label -- it is all concept and explosions, with nothing worthwhile in its plot, character, or dialogue.

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

The chases and shootouts and close calls seem sort of flat and tired, barely raising a jitter in your belly.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
01/01/00
Nick Carter
Nick Carter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

God-awful!

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01/01/00
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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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.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Peter Crimmins
Peter Crimmins
Reel.com

Hard as the two actors strive for lovable eccentricity, they emerge as irritating oddities.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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A brain-dead action flick if there ever was one.

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01/01/00
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

Utterly lacking the drive and roller-coaster energy expected of top action pics, this latest try at repackaging Speed is a Kmart version of a Jerry Bruckheimer production.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
01/01/00
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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A waste of time and talent!

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher
New York Post
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So eager is Chill Factor to include every possible cliche, indeed, that it even keeps one as a spare.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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The pervasive feel of clock-punching industrial filmmaking at its dreary nadir makes Chill Factor a marginal bargain, even by low seasonal-clearance standards.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Russell Smith
Russell Smith
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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