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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.
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) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana... [More]
Starring: Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Heino Ferch
Director: Christian Duguay
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.
Top Critic The impossible plot and laugh-out-loud dialogue would have been tolerable if the tricks were impressive.
No amount of skate tricks or avalanche-dodging ski stunts will win us over if the characters have had their charisma surgically removed.
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.
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.
Top Critic 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.
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.
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.
Top Critic 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!
Top Critic 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
In between the icy stunts, the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do.'
Top Critic 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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