Waste of time

Such a frustrating disappointment

Overrated and overhyped

An action-packed slog

'Chill Factor' is at every video store and pawn shop in the world. But nobody has seen it since it came out almost twenty years ago. But it's probably for the best.The first act of the movie is a mega dull look at a new lethal bomb known as "Elvis" that explodes if it is exposed to warm temperatures. David Paymer makes it, Peter Firth takes the fall, and gets out of jail seeking "Elvis." Despite how this sounds, I was really surprised at how flat it was.We then meet Skeet Ulrich who works at a coffee shop and is one of Paymer's friends. The quality does slightly rise, but barely. It isn't until roughly 20 minutes that Cuba Gooding Jr. gets introduced and the movie actually starts.Gooding Jr steals his employer's ice cream truck just to be spiteful and hopes to rip people off along the way. At Skeet's coffee shop, a near-death Paymer stumbles into the coffee shop with "Elvis" and tells them about it. Ulrich places "Elvis" in the ice cream truck and takes Gooding Jr along with him. It certainly took a long time to get somewhere! 'Chill Factor' is not a terrible movie, thanks in large part to Cuba Gooding Jr. As a part comedy movie, everything funny comes from him. And the friendship that blossoms between him and Skeet Ulrich is pretty entertaining. I know that both men needed to do their share in the greatness of the growing friendship, but only with Gooding Jr could this have been done decently. Ulrich isn't bad, but he's not as good. Peter Firth as the villain Brynner is awful. Unlike most cheesy 90s villains, Brynner is not interesting or entertaining in the slightest. He is far below average.The second flaw is the logic and believability (mostly in the stunts). The first action-packed chase scene is fun and cool, but not at all believeable. Then some of the characters (such as the political guy at the end that swears them to secrecy) are too dumb to be believeable. Many people's gripe with this is how similar it is to 'Speed'. In 'Speed' a bomb will explode if... and in 'Chill Factor' a bomb will explode if... Difference is 'Speed' was fresh and felt real. This feels like a wannabe. But is that really a bad thing? What 'Speed' had, 'Chill Factor' tried to mimic. And some of the chase and hostage scenes are quite exciting. That's just the way it is with chase movies.So aside from a handful of good action bits and Cuba Gooding Jr's hilarious performance, 'Chill Factor' is an empty dud.

Skeet Ulrich and Cuba Gooding Jr. once started out their careers as promising new actors, Gooding Jr. had even already won an Oscar at the time of this movie. I have however always regarded this movie as the sort of turning points in their careers, as it's simply a very bad genre movie, with a lame concept and a story that borrows too much from much better other genre movies.It's not just its concept that makes this movie bad, it's just the overall execution of it all as well. For an action movie it simply isn't a very good one, not in the least because it also borrows heavily from other movies and just isn't original enough on its own to really add anything. The movie is like "Speed" meets "Die Hard" meets "The Rock" and than some movies thrown in the mix with it.No, I didn't really enjoyed watching this movie, even though the movie obviously got aimed toward it to bring some entertainment, by also adding a dose of comedy to the movie. Gooding Jr. has just never really been my favorite comedy actor and Skeet Ulrich just doesn't fit this genre. The movie tries to be like a buddy flick, in which two totally different mismatched persons just by chance end up with each other, running from a couple of bad guys who want to have a new deadly chemical weapon that detonates when it reaches temperatures over 50 degrees. Luckilly Gooding Jr. is an ice cream truck driver. This already should provide you a troubling image of how this entire movie is being like. Seems amazing to me in the first place that they decided to turn this concept into a movie. Its concept alone was reason for people to not go and see this movie, which made this movie an instant flop already, far before it had been released. And why some of the actors within this movie actually agreed to be in it is perhaps an even more strange thing. The movie does have some big names in it, next to Ulrich and Gooding Jr., such as David Paymer and Peter Firth.A movie that is as bad as its concept.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

This is a total paint-by-numbers job that is devoid of brains, originality or believability. Every element of it has already been done to death many times over. Interracial male bonding buddy movie? Check. Road movie? Check. Rogue military bad guys? Check. Pseudo-scientific BS? Check.I really can't imagine what Cuba Gooding was doing in this throwaway effort when he can have his pick of roles. Especially playing second fiddle to Skeet Ulrich, who was reasonably good in the TV series Jericho but is not exactly an A-lister. And Gooding's role was annoyingly formulaic as the hyper, wise-cracking black guy. The bad guys, the country sheriff etc. were likewise straight from central casting.There was a fairly good chase scene, but I'm glad I didn't pay money to watch this movie.

There's only one reason to watch "Chill Factor", and that's Peter Firth (Colonel Andrew Brynner) and his bunch of totally useless elite commandos / terrorists.The plot is awful, the dialogue is terrible, and it makes you wince to think that Cuba Gooding Jnr once won an Oscar. However, this movie contains some of the most useless bad guys you've ever seen .Laugh out loud as one chap abseils into the path of a moving van, whilst another rides his motorbike into the grill of an oncoming truck. Grab your sides as Peter Firth delivers line after line of hilarious empty threats, movie clichés, and, in some cases, complete and utter rubbish.The movie lacks pace (apart from a nicely done initial disaster) and has no idea which genre it belongs to. Is it a bad action movie, a send up, or a comedy buddy movie? Who knows? What I do know is that Peter Firth realised he was making an absolute stinker of a movie and took the opportunity to ham-it-up to the max. He's a serious contender for worst movie bad guy ever, who clearly recruits his goons from the school for the seriously challenged.Watch out for his numerous attempts to steal best movie leer from John Voight in Anaconda!