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I am not a huge fan of Cuba Gooding Jnr, but enjoyed his performance in Radio, and as all actors put in the occasional good performance, I thought I'd give this fim a go. It was awful. The plot would belong better in an episode of Starsky & Hutch, the villain was (unfortunatly) badly played by Peter Firth, who I enjoyed in the TV series 'The battle for Rome'. Hugh Johnson directed this flick, and this is his one and only attempt, and since this he's gone back to cinematography where he firmly belongs. The plot is thin, obvious and not entertaining. The action sequences are poorly put together and edited so badly it hurts to watch. It's not an action picture, it's definitely not a comedy, but it trys to be both, and fails. I felt the acting was restricted by the director, who is ultimately to blame for this appalling film. All in all, a waste of a Tuesday morning off work!!!!

It angers me to see a movie like this, 'cause there are so many good scripts out there waiting to be written or have been written already but are considered not crowd-pleasing enough. Then Hollywood comes with this horrible piece of movie not worth the celluloid it is printed on.

The story was so incredibly boring, the supposed "jokes" were not remotely funny, acting was horrendous. Why does Warner or any other studio for that matter keep making these movies, for the money I guess and that's not a good basis for using the incredible cinema medium.

Horrendous, stupid, a waste of your money.

2/10

(I give it a 2 for the effort.)

This movie is over 20 years old now and it could have use quite a lot of extra time and effort. Lots of actors, but very little time and work on script and plot.

Lots of mindless action, with little to zero though on anything. The hollywood hold on guns, it gets to be a bit much and is kind of irritating at time. The mindless banter and lost scenes that lead nowhere are a bit much and it would be better to have more thought behind the movie. Towards the end I was wishing that the main characters would be taken care of and put the audience out the mindless misery of this movie. If you have the time, find a better movie.

This movie was absolutely awful! It was very much like those BAD unreleased features that you can see at two o'clock in the morning on the cable channels-- you know, with a bunch of unknown actors who resemble other, more successful actors. So what's the deal with Cuba Gooding, Jr.? He is so talented, I can't imagine that he'd be hard up for a job. Perhaps his participation in this disaster was because he lost a bet?

The movie began with a very good sequence, and one of the best special effects of its kind that I have ever seen. But it quickly deteriorated into a dreadful parody of every action flick cliché. And you just know that a parody of a cliché must be bad. The plot and story logic were so flawed that within ten minutes I stopped caring whether anyone lived or died. Events were inserted into the story so amateurishly that what was happening on the screen resembled decoupage. Patch work.

Here's a simple example of how poorly written, executed, and edited "Chill Factor" really is: I saw the movie tonight with some friends. I returned home directly, and thought I'd record my vote and comments with IMDb. I wanted to discuss some of the movie's events and plot devices to illustrate my points, so I planned to use a "Spoiler Warning." But I needn't have bothered. Here I sit, not an hour after the movie was over, and I can't remember half of what happened, nor how it ended. No spoiler, folks-- it was all so insubstantial and unmemorable that it faded away within minutes! Aaagh! I gave it a "2" instead of a "1" because of the nifty opening effects. Those I remembered.