Critical Mass (film)

StarringCinematographyTheo AngellEdited byRandy CarterMusic byNeal AcreeDistributed by (Argentina)95 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Critical Mass is a 2001 action film directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as "Ed Raymond") and released direct-to-video. It stars Treat Williams, Lori Loughlin, and Udo Kier. The film features scenes taken straight from other films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Universal Soldier spliced into newly filmed scenes to make up its action sequences.^[1]

Plot

The film centers around a group of terrorists who take over a nuclear power plant and a security guard at the plant who tries to stop them.

Cast

• Treat Williams as Mike Jeffers
• Udo Kier as Samson
• Lori Loughlin as Janine
• Blake Clark as Sheriff Borden
• Doug McKeon as Breem
• Andrew Prine as Sen. Cook
• Richard McGonagle as Alan Gould
• Shanna Moakler as Alexandra
• T.J. Thyne as Karl Wendt
• Charles Cyphers as Henderson
• Jack Betts as Atty. Gen. Ames

Reception

Website Cool Target called it "enjoyable action nonsense" and stated: "Recycled footage to this extent is just lazy and kind of insulting but if you can get past this, Critical Mass is an enjoyably amusing low rent shoot-em up."^[2] Moria.co gave the film only one star out of five, calling it "yet another version on Die Hard (1988) and the basic plot template it created of a lone individualistic hero inside a large building/facility single-handedly fending off a terrorist plot."^[3]

References

External links

• Critical Mass at IMDb