Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Cuba Gooding Jr. | ... | Arlo | |
Skeet Ulrich | ... | Tim Mason | |
Peter Firth | ... | Colonel Andrew Brynner | |
David Paymer | ... | Dr. Richard Long | |
Hudson Leick | ... | Vaughn | |
Daniel Hugh Kelly | ... | Colonel Leo Vitelli | |
Kevin J. O'Connor | ... | Telstar | |
Judson Mills | ... | Dennis | |
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Jordan Mott | ... | Carl |
Darcas Macopson | ... | Burke (as Dwayne Macopson) | |
Jim Grimshaw | ... | Deputy Pappas | |
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Richard Todd Aguayo | ... | Gomez |
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K. Addison Young | ... | Ranger at Dam |
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James Van Harper | ... | Ranger in Chopper |
Tommy Smeltzer | ... | Deputy Art Lewis |
A scientist develops a biological lethal weapon and accidentally kills eighteen soldiers in an island during the tests. Colonel Andrew Brynner is the commander and becomes the scapegoat of the incident. He is sentenced to go to the prison for ten years. Along this period, he becomes unbalanced and decides to get the bomb to sell to terrorists. He commands a group of mercenaries to steal the bomb from the base where Dr. Richard Long is researching. He shots the scientist but he flees with the weapon to the convenience store where the clerk Tim Mason and an ice-cream trucker driver Arlo are negotiating ice-creams. Mason receive this weapon from the injured Dr. Richard Long, with an advice to keep it below 50 F. they try to reach a military fort and try to escape from the colonel's team that is hunting them down. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Chill Factor has little originality, with sloppy direction, and a straight to cable feel.
The only thing that kept me watching was counting how many times the main characters uttered the words 'Oh S***' - if you ever watch it, you'll be surprised by how often the writer relies on these words to convey 'fear/tension/disbelief'. My own thinking was that the actors realised just how bad the movie was and threw in double the amount of 'Oh ****' as the script originally had!