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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
A film that should’ve stayed on ESPN.
05/12/02
For a film about action, Ultimate X is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever, bogging down in a barrage of hype.
05/10/02
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
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
Visually as buffed as the athletes it celebrates, but also as airheaded as most of them seem to be.
05/07/02
At a brief 42 minutes, we need more X and less blab.
05/10/02
These self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously, their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation.
05/10/02
Top CriticFor every articulate player, such as skateboarder Tony Hawk or BMX rider Mat Hoffman, are about a half dozen young Turks angling to see how many times they can work the words “radical” or “suck” into a sentence.
06/13/02
Instead 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
It briefly flirts with player masochism, but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely.
08/23/02
Writer/director Bruce Hendricks subtracts from the experience by crafting a corporate propaganda film posing as a documentary.
07/20/02
Little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its Summer X Games.
05/10/02
Uses the IMAX screen to showcase sports rather than talking heads, and the result is 40 minutes crammed with high-energy acrobatics.
07/31/08
The competitors are clearly unhinged, but they put on a hell of a show.
06/04/05
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05/10/02
The result is that the skill and determination, not to mention bravery or lunacy, of the extreme sportsmen (and women) is shown on a strikingly grand scale.
06/30/02
Even if you can't tell Tony Hawk from Bob Burnquist, you'll still get a rush out of this documentary about the world of extreme sports.
07/16/02
It's a dizzyingly entertaining thrill-ride, complete with a pleasantly surprising amount of humor and self-parody.
07/26/02
A thrill ride blown up to gigantic mind-blowing proportions; played out over a booming rock 'n roll soundtrack.
06/07/02
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