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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics

starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Sean Means - Film.com
starstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Rod Dreher - NY Post
starstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Robert Koehler - Variety
starstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
star Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
star Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
star Jay Carr - Boston Globe
star Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
star Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online

A live action-adventure cartoon stuffed with macho banter, decorated with weaponry and charged with enough cliffhangers to stir up some adrenaline

- Stephen Holden

The stupidest movie plot of 1999 . . . a brain-dead action flick if there ever was one

- Rob Blackwelder

Chill Factor

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Diner employee Skeet Ulrich and ice-cream truck driver Cuba Gooding Jr. must keep a deadly chemical bomb chilled and out of the hands of the bad guys. Peter Firth, David Paymer, Jim Grimshaw, Hudson Leick, Dwayne Macopson, Judson Mills, Jordan Mott, Bob Penny. Director: Hugh Johnson (1999, R)

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