[A] spectacular extreme sports extravaganza.
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Ultimate X: The Movie (2002)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:35
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Taking full advantage of the large IMAX screen, Ultimate X is a thrill ride for extreme sports junkies and novices alike.
Theatrical Release:May 10, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $4,061,981
Synopsis: All the excitement and explosive drama of action sports is displayed on the exhilarating giant screen in “Ultimate X,” a look into ESPN ® ’s massively popular Summer X Games. “Ultimate X”... [More]
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Reviews for Ultimate X: The Movie
While the finished product is still fun, never dull and the athletes themselves remarkable, inspired and apt, the production could have been improved.
05/08/02
At 40 minutes, it's brief but keeps firmly to its action remit.
06/17/02
The most enjoyable 40 minutes I've ever spent watching a large-format, IMAX-type movie.
06/28/02
The film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill, though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen.
05/12/02
Rad fun for sports fans and sedentary folks alike.
05/09/02
If you think that “ESPN’s Ultimate X” is a motor oil, then you need to see this movie, dude.
01/05/05
If you think that “ESPN’s Ultimate X” is a motor oil, then you need to see this movie, dude.
01/05/05
Transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring, at times sublime, visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the X into the games.
05/09/02
Top CriticInstead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games, we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized.
05/10/02
Top CriticA thrill ride blown up to gigantic mind-blowing proportions; played out over a booming rock 'n roll soundtrack.
06/07/02
There's lots of cool stuff packed into ESPN's Ultimate X.
05/09/02
Top CriticDevotees seem more interested in mayhem than competition. Perhaps that's why the filmmakers save their money shots for a closing montage of painful wipe-outs and crashes.
06/01/02
Writer/director Bruce Hendricks subtracts from the experience by crafting a corporate propaganda film posing as a documentary.
07/20/02
Top CriticYou feel like you're the one moving at 80 mph, not the street lugers.
05/09/02
The format gets used best ... to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and BMX riders, whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups.
05/14/02
Top CriticA Generation X artifact, capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last.
05/23/02
Ultimate X smoothes out the rough edges of Evel [Kneivel]'s bad boy tradition and delivers a film that keeps mom and dad in on the cool -- Disney with a little flava.
06/17/02
Needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism.
05/09/02
A love letter for fans of the sport, and for the uninitiated earth-bound, a peek into a strange new sports world spinning with adrenaline.
10/15/02
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