No amount of skate tricks or avalanche-dodging ski stunts will win us over if the characters have had their charisma surgically removed.
Extreme Ops (2002)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:4
Rotten:61
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: The various stunts in Extreme Ops don't compensate for the inane storyline and bad dialogue.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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)... 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]
Starring: Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Heino Ferch
Starring: Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Heino Ferch, Joe Absolom, Jana Pallaske, Rupert Graves
Director: Christian Duguay
Director: Christian Duguay
Screenwriter: Michael Zaidan
Producer: Moshe Diamant, Jan Fantl
Composer: Normand Corbeil, Stanislas Syrewicz
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Reviews for Extreme Ops
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.
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.
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.
So far past its sell-by-date it ought to come with a complimentary funeral wreath.
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.
The impossible plot and laugh-out-loud dialogue would have been tolerable if the tricks were impressive.
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.
An acceptably mindless sanctuary from the annual December attack of important movies duking it out for Oscar glory.
The worst of the movie's offenses, however, happens in the editing room. With all the good guys, bad guys, skiing, helicopters and running through snow you're never quite sure who's who or what's what.
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.
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!
ufus Sewell and Rupert Graves do add some thespian punch as the intrepid video director and the pampered producer, but it’s not nearly enough to keep this one from extremely bombing.
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