Critical Mass (film)

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]

Critical Mass
Promotional release poster
Directed byFred Olen Ray (as Ed Raymond)
Written bySean McGinly
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTheo Angell
Edited byRandy Carter
Music byNeal Acree
Production
companies
  • Mass Productions
  • Phoenician Entertainment
Distributed by
Release date
  • July 4, 2001 (2001-07-04)
(Argentina)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

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
  1. "CRITICAL MASS (2001)". Cool Target. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. "CRITICAL MASS (2001)". Cool Target. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  3. "CRITICAL MASS". Moria. 18 January 2004. Retrieved 24 May 2017.


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