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Summary: What a great way to spend your 105 minutes!
Review: "Chill Factor" is a mix of action, suspense, humor, and just plain fun. It is about two guys who come to possess a super weapon that can destroy millions in just a couple of minutes. The characters, Mason (Unrich) and Arlo (Gooding Jr.), are quite a team as they "join forces" to prevent the weapon from getting into the hands of Brynner, a specialist sent to prison for 10 years for the "murder" of 18 soldiers. With laughs, non-stop action, mind blowing adventure, "Chill Factor" is a must see! I will definately buy this movie when it come out on VHS and put it in my VCR whenever I am having a bad day. It is great!
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Summary: Not suspenceful, but fun none the less!
Review: An Action film about a bomb (so to say) that will blow up if the temperature goes above 50 degrees. It seems a little Speedish, the bus will blow up if the speed goes below 50. Besides that point the movie is pretty original, and fun. It stars Skeet Ulrich of the hugely popular Scream and Cuba Gooding Jr. from As Good As It Gets. Skeet Ulrich plays a waiter of a small little diner, when in the middle of the night a friend comes in half dead, and explains about the bomb, and the fact that it can't go above 50 degrees. Both of them are a little spooked, and don't really know what to do. When they see a guy approach the diner, not looking like good business, they hide the know dead friend and pretend to be normal, which is a little hard. The guy looks for the body and doesn't find it then leaves. The two then split out of there in an ice cream truck. Talk about perfect timing, and high tell it to get the bomb where it needs to go, with the bad goes hot in pursuit. Chill Factor isn't the greatest action film, but the comedy and the fact that it stars Cuba Gooding Jr. helps it out. It isn't to suspenseful but it is a fun film to watch and love. With a good cast , some good acting and great comedy touches, Chill Factor becomes better then most action films, such as Mission: Impossible 2, or Charlies Angels. Chill Factor is just good old fashioned fun.
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Summary: COOL
Review: CHILL FACTOR is a combination of almost every action movie of the past ten years, but it is entertaining, fast-paced, with some really exciting action sequences. Director Hugh Johnson wisely eschews character development and focuses on the chase. Peter Firth does a good job as the villainous Bremer, an Army general who took the fall for a disastrous chemical warfare accident which killed 18 soldiers. After ten years in prison, he vows revenge by selling the deadly agent to the highest bidder. Skeet Ulrich as the badboy Mason and Cuba Gooding Jr. as the ice cream truck driver he forces to help him transport the deadly agent to an Army base in Montana do well in their buddy roles. CHILL FACTOR stretches the limits for credibility, but it moves well and entertains, that's what this kind of movie should do.
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Summary: A Broken Arrow and Speed wannabe:two rip-offs insted of one!
Review: Chill Factor is about two idiots that are not at the good place at the good time...and of of them has a friend which is a scientist and who has a secret. But when they realize the secret Skeet Ulrich's friend had causes a lot of trouble...they play the heroes and get away in an ice cream truck containing the bomb their friend stole. And then comes a bunch of boring and cheap car pursuits where some terrorists get killed...Then they are captured by the terrorists and there is a big fight between ''good and evil''. The normal thing in an action movie. It is absolutely non realistic and stupid. Cuba Gooding Jr. is getting on my nerves! I think he was good in As Good As It Gets and maybe in Jerry Maguire....but after A Murder Of Crows, Instinct and Chill Factor, I guess he's ready to make straight to video movies(A Murder of Crows didn't play at the theatre). Skeet Ulrich is not very amazing....not as bad as Cuba Gooding Jr.! This is like Speed without scenario(and let's say that Speed had not a big and rich scenario...And it is a bit like Broken Arrow, without the cool action sequences, and the good acting of John Travolta (and maybe Christian Slater). You want to have fun and you are a big action fan? This film is not for you! You are a big INTELLIGENT film fan? This film is not for you either...It is not for anyone....nobody has to waste his time watching stupidities like this....avoid it please...this is not a BAD BAD BAD film....but still, not amazing at all.
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Summary: Better than many other action movies
Review: Chill Factor is an action adventure where the basic premise has just enough credibility to set things in motion, and then we're off! Circumstances bring together a wisecracking ice cream deliveryman named Arlo (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and a convenience store worker, Tim Mason (Skeet Ulrich), for an off beat adventure through some picturesque locations in the Montana countryside. Working for the Army, scientist Richard Long, develops a deadly defoliant, code named "Elvis". A disaster during testing, on a remote island island, results in the court martial and imprisonment of the Army officer in charge, Major Brynner (Peter Firth). Long is unpunished, and continues to work for the Army. When released from prison ten years later, an angry Brynner is bent on revenge, and breaks into an Army research facility, seeking to get his hands on the agent, which must be kept refrigerated to remain inactive. A fleeing Long, delivers "Elvis" to his friend Mason, with instructions to take it to a nearby Army base. Arlo's refrigerated, ice cream truck seems the perfect method of transport, and he becomes a reluctant participant in the delivery run. The partnership works well for the most part, as the pair evade Brynner and his band of mercenaries, retaliating with gusto when necessary. There are continuity issues at a couple of places, but it's nothing fatal, and the story rolls on with plenty of explosions and gunfire. Reasonably good performances for a film of this type are turned in by all. The DVD contains informative production notes and visual effects features. Chill Factor is not a great cinematic event, but if you relax and down shift your brain, you may find some enjoyment in the ride.
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Summary: Sit back and chill...
Review: Chill Factor is an action adventure where the basic premise has just enough credibility to set things in motion, and then we're off! Circumstances bring together a wisecracking ice cream deliveryman named Arlo (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and a convenience store worker, Tim Mason (Skeet Ulrich), for an off beat adventure through some picturesque locations in the Montana countryside. Working for the Army, scientist Richard Long, develops a deadly defoliant, code named "Elvis". A disaster during testing, on a remote island island, results in the court martial and imprisonment of the Army officer in charge, Major Brynner (Peter Firth). Long is unpunished, and continues to work for the Army. When released from prison ten years later, an angry Brynner is bent on revenge, and breaks into an Army research facility, seeking to get his hands on the agent, which must be kept refrigerated to remain inactive. A fleeing Long, delivers "Elvis" to his friend Mason, with instructions to take it to a nearby Army base. Arlo's refrigerated, ice cream truck seems the perfect method of transport, and he becomes a reluctant participant in the delivery run. The partnership works well for the most part, as the pair evade Brynner and his band of mercenaries, retaliating with gusto when necessary. There are continuity issues at a couple of places, but it's nothing fatal, and the story rolls on with plenty of explosions and gunfire. Reasonably good performances for a film of this type are turned in by all. The DVD contains informative production notes and visual effects features. Chill Factor is not a great cinematic event, but if you relax and down shift your brain, you may find some enjoyment in the ride.
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Summary: Non-Stop action
Review: Chill Factor is by no means a classic, it's predictable, un-original and can seem quite daft at times. However it is one of those films you can forgive very easily, apart from the first 20 minutes it offers non-stop action which will keep you on the edge of your seat, it's funny (especially Gooding Jr) fresh and a real all round laugh. A perfect film to watch with your mates.
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Summary: Chill Factor Warms This Reviewer
Review: Chill Factor is clearly a film you'll have warm feelings for. Cuba Gooding Jr., fresh from his Jerry McGuire role, is great. Richard Todd Aguayo's supporting role is especially notable as well -- his portrayal of Gomez shows Aguayo's versatility and dexterity with this slippery role. This is an action picture that you're sure to enjoy. I sure did!
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Summary: It Slowly Melts Away
Review: Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich team up in the weak actioner "Chill Factor". A short-order cook (Ulrich) and an ice cream deliveryman (Gooding Jr.) must keep a dangerous chemical weapon on ice while being chase by vengeful army capatin and his team of mercenaries. "Chill factor" is a predictable and often slow action movie that lacks any good suspence and thrills. Cuba Gooding Jr's comical performance is mildly entertaining and the action sequences are quite average. Overall, the movie gets a "D+".
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Summary: Better than many other action movies
Review: For a discussion of the plot see the other reviews.
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