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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for violence/peril, language and some nudity

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Nov 27, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $4,710,622

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

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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.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

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

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/30/06
Alan Morrison
Alan Morrison
Empire Magazine

Extremely silly is more like it.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
11/29/02
Bill Pearis
Bill Pearis
Citysearch

The film's most improbable feat? It didn't go straight to video.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
12/05/02
Bruce Fretts
Bruce Fretts
Entertainment Weekly

Extreme Oops - oops, ops, no matter how you spell it, it's still a mistake to go see it.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
11/27/02
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

The good thing -- the only good thing -- about Extreme Ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my Thanksgiving to-do list.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
11/27/02
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The impossible plot and laugh-out-loud dialogue would have been tolerable if the tricks were impressive.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
03/06/07
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
01/25/03
Collin Souter
Collin Souter
eFilmCritic.com

A high concept movie that mostly leaves out the concept part.

Full Review Source: Nitrate Online | comment Comment
12/06/02
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Nitrate Online

If [director] Christian Duguay and [screenwriter] Michael Zaidan can be given millions of dollars by a studio to film something as obnoxiously bad as this, then even a young child of seven or eight has what it takes to work in Hollywood.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
11/28/02
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

Imagine if you will a Tony Hawk skating video interspliced with footage from Behind Enemy Lines and set to Jersey shore techno.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
11/26/02
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing, moldering pile of, well, extreme stunt pictures.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
11/28/02
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
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These are grossly uncompelling characters, written without regard for believability or intelligence.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
11/30/02
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Worthless, from its pseudo-rock-video opening to the idiocy of its last frames.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
11/26/02
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

A bad, dumb, mindless film.

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

The plot is so infantile and the characters so uniformly obnoxious that it's impossible to care about what's going to happen next.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
11/27/02
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Only for clean and easily pleased teens.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
01/05/03
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

A movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action TV series.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
11/29/02
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
03/06/07
Hank Sartin
Hank Sartin
Chicago Reader

It has all the excitement of eating oatmeal.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
12/01/02
James Brundage
James Brundage
Filmcritic.com
 
 
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