History Film / ChillFactor

* RidiculouslyPotentExplosive: The "Elvis" super-weapon is capable of vaporizing everything within an area the size of Rhode Island with the amount that is within a container the size of a coffee can. The implication that [[BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything it's a bio-weapon]] really [[{{Handwave}} does not helps explain much]].

* FluffyTheTerrible: The super-destructive bio-weapon that can wipe out an area the size of Rhode Island with the amount that is inside of a canister the size of a coffee can is code-named "Elvis". And yes, that means that at one point [[SpySpeak a bunch of military men say]], with [[OhCrap incredibly somber seriousness]], "Elvis has left the building".

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Arlo stabs Brynner with the digital thermometer he and Tim had been using to keep watch of Elvis’ temperature when Brynner is about to shoot Tim in the tunnel.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The digital thermometer. It spends most of the film attached to Elvis to give a nice idea for the heroes and the audience [[RaceAgainstTheClock of how close they are to reaching the bioweapon's boiling point]], and then Mason uses it to stab [[DarkActionGirl Vaughn]] during the final battle.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The digital thermometer. It spends most of the film attached to Elvis to give a nice idea for the heroes and the audience [[RaceAgainstTime of how close they are to reaching the bioweapon's boiling point]], and then Mason uses it to stab [[DarkActionGirl Vaughn]] during the final battle.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The digital thermometer. It spends most of the film attached to Elvis to give a nice idea for the heroes and the audience [[RaceAgainstTime of how close they are to reaching the bioweapon's boiling point], and then Mason uses it to stab [[DarkActionGirl Vaughn]] during the final battle.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The digital thermometer.]]

* ChekovsGun: [[spoiler: The digital thermometer.]]

* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: The prologue showcases Brenner as a pretty honorable military man that gets the book tossed at him for the death of his men (which he was horrified to see). After the TimeSkip, Brenner is a cold-blooded mercenary that gives absolutely zero shits about his men dying and has no problem threatening to unleash Elvis to make the Feds back off (and then actually leaves a little bit of it exposed, which will kill Tim, Arlo and Heaven only knows how many people in Missoula as a demonstration of what it can do for his potential buyers [[spoiler:which is why it's a good thing that Tim pulled a switcheroo and gave Brenner fish bait instead, which makes the buyers log off from the demo feed out of boredom]].)

* BodyHorror: What happens to those caught in an explosion of Elvis, as horrifyingly demonstrated by what happens to Long’s assistant.

* BoxOfficeBomb

* DarkActionGirl: Vaughn.
* TheDragon: Vaughn.

The story begins in 1987 on Horn Island. Colonel Andrew Brynner (Creator/PeterFirth) arrives to oversee a chemical defoliant, code named Elvis, developed by Dr. Richard Long (Creator/DabidPaymer). Elvis is a unique specimen: a crystalline substance that is dormant in cold temperatures, but will detonate at temperatures above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, perfect for jungle warfare. Going ahead before the calculations of the blast radius for the newly-modified Elvis can be properly analyzed, Long finds out that the blast radius, instead of the 200 yards of the previous versions, is now 8000 yards, or five miles, i.e. [[OhCrap the whole island]]. Finding out the hard way that Elvis makes a better chemical weapon than defoliant, the blast results in the death of eighteen people, including Long's assistant. The government, finding Long too important to prosecute, instead [[TheScapegoat send Brynner to Fort Leavenworth]]. Long is wracked with guilt and tries over the years to find a way to control the spread of the explosion, but to no avail.

''Chill Factor'' is a 1999 action/comedy film starring CubaGoodingJr and SkeetUlrich as, respectively, ice cream deliveryman Arlo and convenience store clerk Tim Mason, two men who are suddenly thrust into a dangerous situation.

The story begins in 1987 on Horn Island. Colonel Andrew Brynner (PeterFirth) arrives to oversee a chemical defoliant, code named Elvis, developed by Dr. Richard Long (DavidPaymer). Elvis is a unique specimen: a crystalline substance that is dormant in cold temperatures, but will detonate at temperatures above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, perfect for jungle warfare. Going ahead before the calculations of the blast radius for the newly-modified Elvis can be properly analyzed, Long finds out that the blast radius, instead of the 200 yards of the previous versions, is now 8000 yards, or five miles, i.e. [[OhCrap the whole island]]. Finding out the hard way that Elvis makes a better chemical weapon than defoliant, the blast results in the death of eighteen people, including Long's assistant. The government, finding Long too important to prosecute, instead [[TheScapegoat send Brynner to Fort Leavenworth]]. Long is wracked with guilt and tries over the years to find a way to control the spread of the explosion, but to no avail.

* ChekhovsLecture: The lecture on how to outwit the trout (“Nature’s perfect hunter”) that Long gives while fly fishing with Mason [[spoiler:inspires Mason to switch out Elvis with fish bait in order to fre Arlo and keep Elvis out of Brynner’s hands.]]

* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: The prologue showcases Brenner as a pretty honorable military man that gets the book tossed at him for the death of his men (which he was horrified to see). After the TimeSkip, Brenner is a cold-blooded mercenary that gives absolutely zero shits about his men dying and has no problem threatening to unleash Elvis to make the Feds back off (and then actually leaves a little bit of it exposed, which will kill Tim, Arlo and Heaven only knows how many people in Missoula as a demonstration of what it can do for his potential buyers [[spoiler:which is why it's a good thing that Tim pulled a switcheroo and gave Brenner fish bait instead, which makes the buyers to log off from the demo feed out of boredom.]]

* IdiotBall: Having got Elvis into a cooler moments before it would have reached 50 degrees and with the army surrounding the tunnel, Tim decides to wrap it in a T-shirt with a handful of ice and try and take it out with them instead of leaving it behind.