No reason for anyone to invest their hard-earned bucks into a movie which obviously didn't invest much into itself either.
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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A pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between XXX and Vertical Limit.
The stunt work is top-notch; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny.
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.
Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing, moldering pile of, well, extreme stunt pictures.
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!
"Extreme Ops" exceeds expectations. Good fun, good action, good acting, good dialogue, good pace, good cinematography.
The dramatic scenes are frequently unintentionally funny, and the action sequences -- clearly the main event -- are surprisingly uninvolving.
An instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product.
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.
While this film tries to combine the two, its weak and uninspired script undermines the effort.
The only thing extreme about this operation is its abilty to irritate.
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.
This film is so slick, superficial and trend-hoppy, that it's easy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay.
"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.
The plot is so infantile and the characters so uniformly obnoxious that it's impossible to care about what's going to happen next.
It's all shameless pandering to corporate America’s perceived view of What Today’s Kids Like.
Extreme Oops - oops, ops, no matter how you spell it, it's still a mistake to go see it.
A blend of XXX and Jackass: The Movie, Extreme Ops is extremely stupid.
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