Chill Factor
Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 25
  3. Negative: 12 out of 25
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  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    38
    A substandard ebony-and-ivory buddy pic.
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  2. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    If you're the kind of person who goes to the movies primarily to watch faces melt to pulp, you won't be disappointed.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    30
    Melts swiftly...don't expect a shred of credibility.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    30
    Utterly lacking the drive and roller-coaster energy expected of top action pics, this latest try at repackaging "Speed" is a Kmart version of a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    An irredeemably transparent... DIRECT RIPPING OFF OF "SPEED."
  6. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    28
    Skeet Ulrich continues to disappoint in one high-profile project after another.
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  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    25
    This poor excuse for a thriller turns, with a great crunching of gears, into a mess of a buddy comedy. Either way, it misfires.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    25
    Gooding plays the worst role I've ever seen him play in a movie...he perpetuates a kind of black stereotype that should have become history years ago.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    God-awful?Gooding screams out lines like ''I'm about to get in yo' ass like last year's underwear!''
  10. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: Jeremy Caplan
    20
    About as bad as it gets?a thrill-less "Speed" wannabe.
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  11. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Matt Kelsey
    20
    "Speed" with a thermometer, only a whole lot worse.
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  12. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    10
    As worthless a piece of garbage as we've seen this year.

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