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.
