Customer Reviews

Extreme Ops

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I saw this movie yesterday. My, was I disappointed! It was nothing more than the story of 5 friends who decided to go ski in a mountain range for a commercial. While there they accidentally filmed a wartime criminal who had previously feigned his death in a plane crash. It is often hard to follow the story, and the whole thing drags on ad infinitum. I hardly sleep at a movie; I did while watching this tripe.
75% of the movie consisted of overjoyed men and women skiing all over the place. This is the only part that might appeal to teens who are into such things. If you saw the trailer,you would remember there was something about some terrorists who were trying to blow up the world? That was addedd at the end (about 3% of the movie). It made very little sense.
Overall, this movie was grossly misrepresented in the trailer. I gave it 1 star because I couldn't do less. It is a complete waste of time and money. Should you decide to go see it, make sure you sip a cup of coffee before you go, as you might need it to stay awake.
What a tripe!

I rented this movie on VHS because that was teh only formate they had. I think its pretty FReaking Lame. The Sport Sequeces are cool, but aside from that it was very boring. Basicly i Think this movie was yet another example of Hollywood Movie Trash.

This movie had the worst most predictable plot in the world. It's your typical " Run from the insane russian terrorists " plot you've seen over and over again. The dialogue is also pretty stupid with one-liners like " Sup B****es " and " Wicked Cool, man ". However, the stunt sequences were pretty awesome. And whats the deal with the dvd features? There's hardly any features on it!

Though I give only two stars to this film, that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy it. I don't care if the plot is too silly. That's OK. I don't care a British guy plays an American. Many do that in this business. But I hate when there are good materials, and when they are ruined like in this film. I mean, its stunts.

The characters -- Devon Sawa ("Final Destination"), Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell, Joe Absolom, Jana Paranske -- are hired to make a promotion video for Japanese client. (Inexplicably, only Ms. Wilson-Sampras is American among the main cast. Devon Sawa is Canadian.) They are going to travel to the Alps, all camping out in the construction site of a resort hotel up on a lonely mountain. But when this rag-tag team encounter a group of terroists (don't ask me why), they are forced to use their skills for extreme sports to survive the deadly fight against them.

The story is silly, but not bad. "Cliffhanger" was silly -- you know, Sly must have been dead within five minutes with that clothes -- but not a bad actioner after all, giving a series of great stunts. And "Extreme Ops" offers some great stunts, and actors are certainly doing their jobs. See, for example, Devon Sawa hanging from the tail of the train, strapped to it by ropes. You can see people doing skateboarding on a moving train, behind a moving train, and so on.

But the drirector Christian Dugay arrange them in a meaningless way, editing so badly that you just don't know what is going on particularly in the first scenes about the canoe riding. To make matters worse, as the film reaches its climax, you will see the cheesy CGIs, a crazy soldier with bad acting, and some ridiculous tactics that the characters use to protect them from the killers, all of which tell that the film is running out of tricks, and this feeling kills the excitement this kind of film should offer.

Not so bad as some people say, but "Extreme Ops" tells us why "XXX" is a great fun -- charisma of Vin Diesel, sexy Asia Argento, and great stunts aptly shown on the screen, all of which lack here.

Trivia: "Yana" is played by Liliana Komorowska, wife of director Christian Dugay, and she can be seen many of his films like "Screamers."

After watching this movie back in November of 2002 with friends, we renamed the movie from "Extreme Ops" to "Extreme Ooooppppsss"

One of the major "plot" points for the movie can be seen about 5 minutes into it. Unfortunately that point isn't revisited until MUCH, MUCH later.

In between, the extreme skiiers and company are busy trying to film scenes for a Japanese business man and his daughter. There are a lot of high flying action shots but that wasn't enough to keep me and my friends interested.

Not recommended for anyone unless you like to have a good laugh at how bad this movie is.

i got the movie fast, it show a good picture, its a good and fun movie, thank you very very much.

This is a great action packed movie. Instead of your regular good guy against bad guy deal you have a couple of sports action nuts just trying to suvive there way off a mountain from a big bad Russian Army type guy who happens to be thought to be dead btu really isn't. All the while trying to shoot a comercial for a video camera that has there skier outrunning an avalanche.

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

EXTREME OPS packs a real wallop with some of its outstanding mind-boggling ski/snowboard sequences. The scenery is breathtaking and there is one long tense scene involving dangling on the side of the Alps. Other than that, we have a standard plot that doesn't move quick enough and some cardboard performances particularly from Bridgette Wilson Sampras and Rupert Graves. Perennial bad boy Rufus Sewell seems lost in the role of a hero, and Devon Sawa hops around like one of the 17 year cicadas. BUT who cares? The action sequences are outstanding and it's an enjoyable diversion. Still the best ski scenes on film are from ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, and they didn't use CGI!

Okay, like I said, not a bad movie...was it fantastic? No, but was worth seeing. Think of this as a poor mans xXx. This is about a commercial company who wants to make a commerical with extereme sports people. Soon some terrorists get involved, and the extereme sports people have to use their extereme sports skills to escape the terrorists. Like I said, it was a poor man's xXx.

The only real issue is that I wished they'd use more of the extereme sports to escape. They just did it once. What I did like was the visuals and the camera work.

This was a good was to kick back and burn off stress of the day. If you like this sort of thing (I could take or leave extereme sports) then you may want to check this out.