title: Critical Mass (film)
text: # 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."
  
  