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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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No reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
11/29/02
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

A pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between XXX and Vertical Limit.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
11/29/02
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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The stunt work is top-notch; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
11/29/02
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Not once does it come close to being exciting.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/29/02
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
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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

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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Fairly successful at faking some pretty cool stunts but a complete failure at trying to create some pretty cool characters. And forget about any attempt at a plot!

Full Review Source: Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies | comment Comment
11/28/02
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

"Extreme Ops" exceeds expectations. Good fun, good action, good acting, good dialogue, good pace, good cinematography.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
11/27/02
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

The dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny, and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
11/27/02
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

An instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
11/27/02
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
San Francisco Examiner

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

While this film tries to combine the two, its weak and uninspired script undermines the effort.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
11/27/02
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

The only thing extreme about this operation is its abilty to irritate.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
11/27/02
Tor Thorsen
Tor Thorsen
Reel.com

The characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite James Bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as The Usual Suspects.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
11/27/02
Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

This film is so slick, superficial and trend-hoppy, that it's easy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
11/27/02
Tom Maurstad
Tom Maurstad
Dallas Morning News

"Extreme Ops" completely goes off the deep end when it decides to turn its light-hearted stunt exhibition story into some sort of terrorist thriller.

Full Review Source: Katrillion.com | comment Comment
11/27/02
John Oliver
John Oliver
Katrillion.com

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

It's all shameless pandering to corporate America’s perceived view of What Today’s Kids Like.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
11/27/02
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

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

A blend of XXX and Jackass: The Movie, Extreme Ops is extremely stupid.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
11/27/02
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews
 
 
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