Chill Factor is one of those outlandish and completely unrealistic man-on-the-run movies that you probably won't remember next month. This is also a film that recycles every Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Top Gun) film imaginable. Skeet Ulrich (Scream) plays a truck stop cook and Cuba Gooding Jr. an ice cream delivery man--and though not terribly fond of each other, they're forced to bond while on the run from a band of military mercenaries.
Surprisingly, the film is light, breezy entertainment that didn't annoy me nearly as bad as I thought it would. Mostly due to the film's break-neck pace and Gooding Jr.'s bounce-off-the-walls energy. Chill Factor certainly isn't great filmmaking, it's disjointed, and offers some clumsy action sequences, but it never takes itself seriously. And that alone makes it tolerable.
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