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Extreme Ops (2002)
Released By: Paramount Pictures   Rating: PG-13   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Action-Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christian Duguay
Language: English
Official Website: http://extremeopsmovie.com/
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Brigette Wilson, Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Heino Ferch
Published ID: 460735
UPC: 097363409540,
Plot: A group of extreme winter athletes find themselves risking their neck for more than just thrills in this action drama. Jeffrey (Rupert Graves) is a director who has been hired to make a television commercial for a cellular phone company. For the spot, Jeffrey has come up with an exciting visual motif - a group of extreme skiers and snowboarders outrunning an avalanche on a remote mountain range. To get the needed footage, Jeffrey and his crew head to Austria, where they set up to film on a mountain near the former Yugoslavia; joining them is Olympic downhill champion Chloe (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) and world-class snowboarders Ian (Rufus Sewell, Will (Devon Sawa), Silo (Joe Absolom), and Kittie (Jana Pallaske). While filming along an unchartered slope, Jeffrey's camera crew make an unexpected discovery - they find the secret compound of international terrorist Slobodan Pavlov (Klaus Lowitsch), and even capture the deadly man on videotape. Extremely unhappy that he's been found out, Pavlov turns his immediate attention to eliminating Jeffrey, his crew, and his skiers, and soon the snowboarders are forced to use their skills not just for kicks, but to save their friends - and possibly the world. Director Christian Duguay) is an old hand at filming in snow-covered mountains, having made the TV movie Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story in 1994. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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People get killed doing this
Added 10/16/2008

A semi-famous mathematician Obed Schramm died in a fall
on a mountain climb. Even the best and safest arranged
of events like this can kill the stunt men and women involved.
Holding the money man over the side of a building at the beginning
tells you the producer knew there were real dangers involved
in making this kind of film. The kids are kind of danger addicted? It if the unexpected ones of bad guys in the plot that make the second half of the movie...

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Extreme is right.
Added 4/16/2008

Everything you ever wanted to do.
Extreme sports meets james bond stuff.
wish it went for longer.

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Extreme something
Added 8/28/2006

Some folks need only a paper-thin plot to string together a bunch of action sequences, without character or theme or language or logic getting in the way. If that's you, this may be your movie. Xtreme sports, xtreme ops. Get it? If that doesn't strike you as xtremely clever, you may find this movie painful to watch. I'm thinking of telling The Agony Booth about it.

The humor doesn't work, to the extent that I think I want a laugh track after all. Or a drummer doing rim shots. Ba-DUM-bum! Characters are distinguishable by such things as fake national accent and stereotyped mannerisms, hair style and/or color, or shouting all his dialogue. I didn't watch it all. I didn't even watch enough to tell you what it's about. Amazon or Imdb can tell you what it's about. Just something else we found in the flat. Someone's losing credibility as a selector of DVDs.

1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
Not Much Plot & Poor Editing - Avoid
Added 4/18/2005

Avoid this one. The bad reviews are not kidding. The plot is almost non-existent. The action scenes are not enough to make up for the poor editing. The writing has drawn the characters very thinly. Sadly, a reason to watch this movie is to be amused at how badly it is put together.
1 out of 3 people found this helpful.
Big, brash and boring
Added 3/15/2005

The movie "Extreme Ops" which opened to lukewarm reviews and even more lukewarm box office really should carry a government health warning with it. It is so mind numbingly incoherent and lackluster that one can feel your brain cells being depleted one by one after each comic strip moment.
Let me take that back because to equate comic strips with this piece of drivel is a disservice to comic strips. This movie has no plot and no characterization. The point appears to be to display some "amazing" stunt work but the effect is spoiled by an over usage of truly obvious computer generated effect work that would not look out of place on your home play station.
The plot, and I use the term loosely, concerns a group of commercial filmmakers who travel the world in attempts to catch stunts on film. They have been hired by a Japanese businessman to catch shots of a skier racing ahead of an avalanche (the reason why is never really given) so this ragtag group heads for Austria. Why they made the decision to film the shot in the Alps instead of the perfectly good Rocky Mountains is similarly never explained, except that it allows them to come into contact with a sneering Serbian war criminal fresh from faking his own death.
Understandably the sneering villain is none to happy to be sharing his mountain hideaway with an obnoxious group of teenagers. He, like the theater audience, seems to find them just as annoying as we do, but whereas we have the liberty of tuning them out or, even more sensibly, walking out in the middle of the movie, he takes a more homicidal approach and decides to do away with them.
I usually try to find some good points in a movie I review so it is somewhat balanced, however it is hard with this flick to find something positive to say, I guess one could point out that the girls are good looking and the scenery is equally pretty - does that count?
Do yourself a favor and give this a miss. I would also recommend that you pass it by when you see it on DVD shelves. There is absolutely no redeeming feature to this dull, dumb movie.

4 out of 6 people found this helpful.
People get killed doing this
Added 10/16/2008

A semi-famous mathematician Obed Schramm died in a fall
on a mountain climb. Even the best and safest arranged
of events like this can kill the stunt men and women involved.
Holding the money man over the side of a building at the beginning
tells you the producer knew there were real dangers involved
in making this kind of film. The kids are kind of danger addicted? It if the unexpected ones of bad guys in the plot that make the second half of the movie...

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Extreme is right.
Added 4/16/2008

Everything you ever wanted to do.
Extreme sports meets james bond stuff.
wish it went for longer.

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Extreme something
Added 8/28/2006

Some folks need only a paper-thin plot to string together a bunch of action sequences, without character or theme or language or logic getting in the way. If that's you, this may be your movie. Xtreme sports, xtreme ops. Get it? If that doesn't strike you as xtremely clever, you may find this movie painful to watch. I'm thinking of telling The Agony Booth about it.

The humor doesn't work, to the extent that I think I want a laugh track after all. Or a drummer doing rim shots. Ba-DUM-bum! Characters are distinguishable by such things as fake national accent and stereotyped mannerisms, hair style and/or color, or shouting all his dialogue. I didn't watch it all. I didn't even watch enough to tell you what it's about. Amazon or Imdb can tell you what it's about. Just something else we found in the flat. Someone's losing credibility as a selector of DVDs.

1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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