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...
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Extreme is right.
Added 4/16/2008
Everything you ever wanted to do.
Extreme sports meets james bond stuff.
wish it went for longer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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