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Extreme Ops (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 62 Fresh: 4  Rotten:58 Average Rating: 2.9/10
 
Consensus: The various stunts in Extreme Ops don't compensate for the inane storyline and bad dialogue.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Synopsis: Ian (Rufus Sewell) is a director of extreme sports films who sets out with a stunt team to out-ski an avalanche for his latest digital video camera commercial. Slacker cameraman Will (Devon Sawa) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana Pallaske) who likes to snowboard on and behind trains with... Ian (Rufus Sewell) is a director of extreme sports films who sets out with a stunt team to out-ski an avalanche for his latest digital video camera commercial. Slacker cameraman Will (Devon Sawa) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana Pallaske) who likes to snowboard on and behind trains with skate maniac Silo (Joe Absolom). The newcomer who must prove her mettle is Chloe (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), a sweet, blonde gold-medal ski champ trying to measure up to these charismatic lunatics. Their quest for the right peak takes them high up into a mountain range near Yugoslavia, where they soon run afoul of an evil Serb general and his minions. Their beer and hot-tub nights come to a halt as the gang find themselves fighting, snowboarding, and skiing for their lives all the way back down the mountain. Breathtaking outdoor scenery, stunts, rapid-fire editing and the thunderous electronica score all work overtime in this high-octane film. In addition, there are sturdy performances from the attractive cast, and a script mercifully free of corny dialogue and groan-inducing one-liners. Hamlet on ice this ain't, but potential viewers cruising for a no-frills adrenaline-rush will do well to take the plunge. [More]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Heino Ferch, Joe Absolom

Director: Christian Duguay
Screenwriter: Michael Zaidan
Producer: Moshe Diamant, Jan Fantl
Composer: Normand Corbeil, Stanislas Syrewicz

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Jun 5, 2003

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2/5

No amount of skate tricks or avalanche-dodging ski stunts will win us over if the characters have had their charisma surgically removed.

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12/30/06
Alan Morrison
Empire Magazine
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This is a duff plot, but as an excuse to show lots of people with guns, a lot more people jumping around on snowboards and even more people repeatedly shouting 'Woooo!', it's unbeatable.

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01/26/06
Time Out
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1/5

If you're walking past a cinema where it's showing, and it's raining, and you fancy a laugh... I would do something else, to be honest.

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07/08/03
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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1.5/5

One of the dumbest action movies in recent memory (and that's saying a lot), this is so bad it's almost fun to watch.

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05/16/03
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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2/5

So far past its sell-by-date it ought to come with a complimentary funeral wreath.

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05/12/03
Jamie Russell
BBC
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In their quest for the youth market, Hollywood hacks often dress up their old script ideas in baggy pants and backward baseball caps, but I hope American kids aren't dumb enough to swallow this awful extreme-sports adventure.

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03/06/07
Hank Sartin
Chicago Reader
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The impossible plot and laugh-out-loud dialogue would have been tolerable if the tricks were impressive.

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03/06/07
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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We get awful effects and endless shots of stuntmen filling in for B-grade actors (such as Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) traveling down mountains. How fascinating.

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06/26/03
Nick Rogers
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
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2/4

An acceptably mindless sanctuary from the annual December attack of important movies duking it out for Oscar glory.

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05/28/03
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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1.5/4

Extreme Ops has plenty of value as a movie on which you and your funniest friends can goof. There exists no logic to the plot and no point to the process. And I still don't know what an Op is.

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01/25/03
Collin Souter
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Only for clean and easily pleased teens.

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01/05/03
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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Jackass Goes to Austria.

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01/02/03
Scott Von Doviak
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Good for a few unintentional laughs, "Extreme Ops" was obviously made for the "XXX" crowd, people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting, writing, and direction.

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12/30/02
John Larsen
Light Views
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Where's Vin Diesel when you need him?

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12/27/02
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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1/5

The really sweet part comes when this really wicked avalanche does happen while they're being chased and the director decides to film the uptight skier chick in front of it, so they can use it in the commercial. It was sooooooo rad, man!

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12/08/02
Steve Davis
Austin Chronicle
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A high concept movie that mostly leaves out the concept part.

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12/06/02
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
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The film's most improbable feat? It didn't go straight to video.

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12/05/02
Bruce Fretts
Entertainment Weekly
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2/5

Despite bearing the Paramount imprint, it's a bargain-basement European pickup. What's hard to understand is why anybody picked it up. Wiser souls would have tactfully pretended not to see it and left it lying there

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12/04/02
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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In between the icy stunts, the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do.'

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12/03/02
Justine Elias
Village Voice
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2/5

Zaidan's script has barely enough plot to string the stunts together and not quite enough characterization to keep the faces straight.

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12/02/02
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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