For 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.
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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 thrill ride blown up to gigantic mind-blowing proportions; played out over a booming rock 'n roll soundtrack.
06/07/02
Devotees 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
A Generation X artifact, capturing a brief era of insanity in the sports arena that surely cannot last.
05/23/02
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
A film that should’ve stayed on ESPN.
05/12/02
The film's 45-minute running time stops shy of overkill, though viewers may be more exhausted than the athletes onscreen.
05/12/02
Ultimate X is a ride, basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to ESPN the Magazine.
05/11/02
Top CriticMost of Ultimate X is comprised of truly exhilarating footage of men -- and one woman -- pushing their bodies and their nerve to the edge.
05/11/02
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
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 a film about action, Ultimate X is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever, bogging down in a barrage of hype.
05/10/02
Top CriticIt's an exhilarating blast that makes good use of the large-format screen.
05/10/02
At a brief 42 minutes, we need more X and less blab.
05/10/02
The rare Imax movie that you'll wish was longer than an hour.
05/10/02
Little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its Summer X Games.
05/10/02
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05/10/02
Provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views.
05/10/02
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
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
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