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Chill Factor (1999)

Chill Factor
"Run for your life and just thank God this isn't Pearl Harbor!"

Starring:

Skeet Ulrich
Cuba Gooding Jr.

Released By:

Warner Bros

Released In:

1999

Rated:

R

Reviewed By:

Adam Mast

Grade:

C+

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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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