Critical Mass (film)
# 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.

## 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." 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."

