Chill Factor (1999)

Dr. Richard Long (David Paymer) is working on a powerful bio-chemically bomb in a covert tropical base. Colonel Andrew Brynner (Peter Firth) is in charge of guarding the base, but when the experiment goes wrong killing all his men, he is scapegoated and imprisoned for 10 years.Now it's 10 years later, and Brynner is back to steal the weapon from Dr Long for himself. Tim Mason (Skeet Ulrich) is Dr Long's fishing buddy. When Brynner hit the base, Dr Long is mortally wounded but he escapes with the weapon. He manages to give it to Mason, and leave him with instructions to keep it under 50 F. Mason along with Arlo (Cuba Gooding Jr.) must take the weapon to Fort Magruder.Arlo is annoying self-centered more worried about his ice cream than saving the world. Why would he drive the bomb around? Mason is more likely to just steal the truck and leave Arlo behind. Of course, they need it for the movie buddy duo road trip genre.The setup is silly just to bring about the unlikely scenario of two bickering guys in an ice cream truck carrying a super weapon being chased by militaristic bad guys. For about 20 minutes in the middle, they have a fun action movie. Then it just gets stupid again.

Don't you just love it when you're channel surfing to pass the time, end up watching a film you've never heard of and discover a forgotten gem? This is one of those movies, an action flick with tongue firmly placed in cheek that is very much in the vein of Con Air with its sense of humour.The plot is basically one part road movie, one part 'Speed' and two parts 'The Rock,' as two blue-collar losers in the shape of Skeet Ulrich and Cuba Gooding Jr find themselves in possession of a top secret military chemical weapon that will detonate and kill millions of people if its temperature exceeds 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Pursued by a renegade military General, the duo set off against all odds to return the weapon to the nearest secure outpost, but there's a hitch; they have to cross the desert to do so.It may be more Renny Harlin than William Shakespeare in its premise, but the end result is a riotous hour and thirty minutes worth of entertainment. Skeet and Cuba make for a great on screen pair, their bickering providing plenty of laughs and one liners, while Peter Firth is brilliant as the scenery-chewing villain. What makes it even more fun, is that unlike its contemporaries, the two lead characters are utterly hapless. They are just a pair of ordinary guys thrust into a situation beyond their control rather than muscle-clad, indestructible body-builders or Kung Fu experts and they only really survive unscathed by bumbling through the fight scenes.You can tell the cast are having a great time and in all honesty, Cuba Gooding Jr seems to be enjoying himself so much it's a surprise he doesn't grin like a cheshire cat throughout the whole movie. So get some beers in, get your mates round, switch your brain off and check it out, its a really enjoyable film.

I came across this film one night and let me tell you it is a cracker of a movie. Cuba Gooding Jr,an ice cream delivery driver,and Skeet Ulrich,an employee at a diner, are transporting a secret chemical weapon,named Elvis,that if exceeding the temperature of 50 degrees will detonate killing 3 million Americans and annihilating everything for miles around. They are pursued by terrorist Peter Firth, who wants to sell the weapon to the highest bidder, and his female cronie Hudson Leick. This is a film that keeps upping the tension and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Cuba Gooding Jr and Skeet Ulrich are perfect as 2 unlikely heroes who at first don't get on but have to work together and in so doing become friends. Peter Firth plays a really nasty piece of work but his co-star Hudson Leick steals every scene with her portrayal of a female assassin who has no scruples what so ever. If you ever get the chance to watch this film then take up the offer because you will be seeing a small movie that is a little gem. By the end of this film you will have no nails left to chew. 8 out of 10.

I can't believe all the negative comments for this movie. It is about two guys trying to keep the bad guys from scorching about a five-square-mile patch of the US and all the citizens therein. If you went to this movie after watching the trailer and didn't expect it to be a great diversion rather than a serious action-thriller, you weren't paying very close attention when Skeet Ulrich's character brandishes a gun and for the second time says "I need your truck," and Cuba Gooding, Jr., responds, "How far you got to go?" From that point on in the trailer, you SHOULD be clued in. Once the ice cream truck shows up at the diner, it is non-stop action, and it's FUNNY.Everyone needs to lighten up. This is a comedy, and it is a good one. Relax and stop taking yourselves so seriously.