Extreme Ops (2002)

8% of critics liked it
(66 reviews)
33% of users liked it
(7,920 ratings)

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… More 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, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 33 min.
Directed By: Christian Duguay
Written By: Michael Zaidan
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

In Theaters: Nov 27, 2002 Wide
On DVD: May 6, 2003
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

Hank Sartin, Chicago Reader
In their quest for the youth market, Hollywood hacks often dress up their old script ideas in baggy pants and backward baseball caps, but I hope American kids aren't dumb enough to swallow this awful extreme-sports adventure.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
The impossible plot and laugh-out-loud dialogue would have been tolerable if the tricks were impressive.
Jan Stuart, Newsday
An acceptably mindless sanctuary from the annual December attack of important movies duking it out for Oscar glory.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
Where's Vin Diesel when you need him?
Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly
The film's most improbable feat? It didn't go straight to video.
Justine Elias, Village Voice
In between the icy stunts, the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do.'
Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Good extreme snowboarding, poor everything else.
Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
A bad, dumb, mindless film.
Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile
An extremely stupid action movie.
Alan Morrison, Empire Magazine
No amount of skate tricks or avalanche-dodging ski stunts will win us over if the characters have had their charisma surgically removed.
, Time Out
This is a duff plot, but as an excuse to show lots of people with guns, a lot more people jumping around on snowboards and even more people repeatedly shouting 'Woooo!', it's unbeatable.
James Plath, Reel.com
Extreme Ops might as well have been titled Dude, Where's My Snowboard?
Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]
If you're walking past a cinema where it's showing, and it's raining, and you fancy a laugh... I would do something else, to be honest.
Nick Rogers, State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
We get awful effects and endless shots of stuntmen filling in for B-grade actors (such as Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) traveling down mountains. How fascinating.
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
One of the dumbest action movies in recent memory (and that's saying a lot), this is so bad it's almost fun to watch.
Jamie Russell, BBC
So far past its sell-by-date it ought to come with a complimentary funeral wreath.
Kit Bowen, Hollywood.com
The worst of the movie's offenses, however, happens in the editing room. With all the good guys, bad guys, skiing, helicopters and running through snow you're never quite sure who's who or what's what.
Collin Souter, eFilmCritic.com
Extreme Ops has plenty of value as a movie on which you and your funniest friends can goof. There exists no logic to the plot and no point to the process. And I still don't know what an Op is.
Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons
Only for clean and easily pleased teens.
Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jackass Goes to Austria.

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Extreme Ops is the perfect definition of a very bad film. Bad acting, bad actors, plot and directing. The plot to this film is by far one of the stupidest plots I've ever seen for a film. A bunch of extreme sports kids defeat powerful terrorists. Right then that should tell you… More
Extreme Ops is the perfect definition of a very bad film. Bad acting, bad actors, plot and directing. The plot to this film is by far one of the stupidest plots I've ever seen for a film. A bunch of extreme sports kids defeat powerful terrorists. Right then that should tell you this film will suck-and it it does. Everyone in this film obviously know nothing in making a good action film. If you want a good action film view Die Hard, that had a story, this piece of shit had action and no story. Extreme Ops is one of the worst films I've seen, and like I said it's the perfect example of a bad film. Nothing really does make sense, and the film gets even more rediculous. A very bad teen oriented action film, and I watched this when I was in my teens, it sucked then and it sucks now.
Dean M

More coolest and most amazing extreme sequences captured on film. This non-stop action-adventure that delivers maximum movie excitement.
Todd S

The stunt, the action, and the eye candy was incredible. The storyline was strong and this movie could have been great, if they had focused as much attention on the story and the conflict as they did on the stunts. All in all, very entertaining, eventhou there isn't much of a… More
The stunt, the action, and the eye candy was incredible. The storyline was strong and this movie could have been great, if they had focused as much attention on the story and the conflict as they did on the stunts. All in all, very entertaining, eventhou there isn't much of a story to it.
Steven V

"Look it's not easy for me to admit this, but the fact of it is, over the past 24 hours, I've fallen in love with each and every one of you. We're going to be pretty high up there and it's going to be pretty dangerous. And if anything should happen, I… More
"Look it's not easy for me to admit this, but the fact of it is, over the past 24 hours, I've fallen in love with each and every one of you. We're going to be pretty high up there and it's going to be pretty dangerous. And if anything should happen, I don't think I'd forgive myself. Especially you Silo, your quiet charm has cast a spell over me." - Ian Actually this movie wasn't a total stinker. It had some good points, a lot of low points as well, but still some good stuff to be seen. The story was actually a rather interesting idea. The characters in the movie were all pretty good ideas, just not executed correctly. The two characters that were supposed to be super adrenaline junkies were good ideas, but weren't done justice. I'm not saying the acting was horrible or anything like that, I'm just saying that some of the things they were doing didn't look "cool", just plain stupid. There were a few stunts that they did that were really cool though, so it wasn't a total bust. The action in the film was actually really good at times. But, it was very often short-lived. For the actual final moments of the movie, let's just say it could have been better. Most of the actors did a fine job. Rufus Sewell did a fine job as always. Devon Sawa did a surprisingly good job in this movie. Bridgette Wilson did a great job with her role and looks absolutely fantastic throughout the movie. Jana Pallaske did an ok job with her role. She wasn't spectacular, but she did pretty good job given the material. All in all, I can't in good conscience recommend you go see this movie in the theater unless you just want to see some cool snowboarding/skiing footage.
Marcus W

Ever seen those EXTREME clips of people jumping over stuff while riding stuff? This is that with a plot about a warlord whom everyone thinks is dead but isn't and is accidentally filmed by the EXTREME kids and then tries to kill them only for them to retaliate using all their… More
Ever seen those EXTREME clips of people jumping over stuff while riding stuff? This is that with a plot about a warlord whom everyone thinks is dead but isn't and is accidentally filmed by the EXTREME kids and then tries to kill them only for them to retaliate using all their EXTREME skills - though it's someone else who kills him using the old rope around the helicopters rotor blade trick. Terrible acting/editting/everything else. Try as I might I'm unable to think of any redeeming factors.. I suppose the first ten minutes was fun.