Review of Chill Factor (1999) by Jason O — 19 Aug 2009

Any movie that combines bio-weapons and ice cream trucks has to be good right? Ah, no. The plot is simply stupid, so there is no real point of going into that. Cuba Gooding Jr. won a Oscar 3 years before, and it is kind of shocking that he was reduced to playing token black characters in such a short time.

It doesn't help the fact that he says SHIT a lot and the classic token black character phrase of AW HELL NAW! Skeet Ulrich was a pretty decent supporting actor but he cleary isn't cut out to be leading man material.

The action simply isn't that thrilling and the comedic attempts fall horribly flat. It seems ever since Lethal Weapon, Hollywood keeps trying to crank out black/white buddy movies, and the 90s were chock full of them.

It's a small wonder that most of the mine the same territory, and mostly all of them are bad.