Wouldn't you sometimes like to see a truly logical script? If it isn't new, original and particularly good, then, at least you would hope it would be logical. Well, don't hold your breath. Chill Factor is good entertainment as they come. Albeit banal plot, and The Rock rip-off (which is itself a collection of rip-offs), and feeble tries to rip-off some other movies--Speed, Die Hard, etc. (although I'm sure the makers thought about them as "homage" ;) it could be good enough action movie if there was some serious work invested in it. As it is, the makers depended on Cuba Gooding (Jr..) to be their main and prevailing asset, which he isn't. He is just putting up a show, doing his job while thinking about being somewhere else. Well, maybe he couldn't make himself to do a better thing with material he had, but on the other hand, we have seen great performances based on the material twice as worse as this one.

USA government doomsday biological weapon project (code name: Elvis!) in the early stages of testing goes astray, and as the main scientist honcho is needed for further development, for the deaths of 18 GIs their commander is blamed and sentenced to jail. In prison, he is somehow transformed from loyal and conscientious soldier to cynical and every-man-for-himself mercenary, so upon his release he immediately form a highly trained group of mercenaries to try and steal Elvis (how and when did he found them, and organized them is mystery). The name of the project is thought up by the filmmakers just for one pun - so that when it is stolen the message to the High Command can be - "Elvis has left the building". Funny.

The remaining part of the movie is spent in classical clichés: outsiders that will save the world, usual man bonding while on the run, usual bad and stupid cop and all other scenes that you are supposed to see in the "action" movie of this kind, and very probable have seen them a number of times, and Grand Finale in which underdogs save the world.

Not withstanding other inconsistencies, my favourite is a mobile phone ploy. 911 is dialed only once, and after the proverbial "hold", never tried again, not even during the half an hour or so while main characters are slowly drifting down the river in the small boat they have used in Indiana Jones style to slide down and through the half mile of steep forest mountainside (during which, both oars remain in the boat). But, in the Great Finale, it suddenly reappears and is used to save the day while working perfectly in the middle of a very long tunnel.

It is a well know fact that the greater the villain, the greater the hero and better movie. Major Brennan, this movie villain is just a one dimensional character made of cardboard, tried to be played by Peter Firth like a cool and cold professional, but his character does not rise above average characters of the movie.

On the scale of 0 to 4 grapes, this movie gets 0 grapes and 4 stems.