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Running time: 102 mins
Rental: Today
Review: Ewan McDonald
The peace of Horn Island, a tiny tropical atoll in the South Pacific, is shattered when a top-secret research operation, codenamed "Elvis," goes wrong. Everyone involved is killed apart from Dr Richard Long (David Paymer), the scientist behind the formula, and Major Andrew
Brynner (Peter Firth), the disgraced officer in charge.
This disaster has its sequel 10 years later in the tiny town of Jerome, Montana, where two young men enter the story: Tim Mason (Skeet Urlich), fishing buddy to Long and night-shift worker at the diner, and his pal Arlo (Cuba Gooding Jr, pictured above), who delivers ice-cream.
Embittered Brynner gets out of jail and hunts down Long. The dying scientist gives Elvis to Mason, begging him to keep the deadly chemical on ice and deliver it to Fort Magruder, 150km away. Guess what? His mate Arlo has a refrigerated ice cream truck.
Closely followed by Brynner, who wants to sell the deadly poison to the terrorists with the most money. Closely followed by every cliche in the Moviemaker's Handbook. Lots of bang-bang, lots of special effects, lots of holes in the plot, not a lot else.
