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Extreme Ops
2002
Ian (Rufus Sewell) is a director of extreme sports films who sets out with a stunt team to out-ski an avalanche for his latest digital video camera commercial. Slacker cameraman Will (Devon Sawa) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana Pallaske) who likes to snowboard on and behind trains with skate maniac Silo (Joe Absolom). .. Read more
| Starring | Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell |
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| Director | Christian Duguay |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Extreme Ops
Ian (Rufus Sewell) is a director of extreme sports films who sets out with a stunt team to out-ski an avalanche for his latest digital video camera commercial. Slacker cameraman Will (Devon Sawa) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana Pallaske) who likes to snowboard on and behind trains with skate maniac Silo (Joe Absolom). The newcomer who must prove her mettle is Chloe (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), a sweet, blonde gold-medal ski champ trying to measure up to these charismatic lunatics. Their quest for the right peak takes them high up into a mountain range near Yugoslavia, where they soon run afoul of an evil Serb general and his minions. Their beer and hot-tub nights come to a halt as the gang find themselves fighting, snowboarding, and skiing for their lives all the way back down the mountain. Breathtaking outdoor scenery, stunts, rapid-fire editing and the thunderous electronica score all work overtime in this high-octane film. In addition, there are sturdy performances from the attractive cast, and a script mercifully free of corny dialogue and groan-inducing one-liners. Hamlet on ice this ain't, but potential viewers cruising for a no-frills adrenaline-rush will do well to take the plunge.
| Starring | Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell, Joe Absolom |
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| Director | Christian Duguay |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 29 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 22 Sep 2003 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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This flick aims to be the ultimate action movie — celebrating extreme snowboarding and its enthusiasts — but our attention gets swept away by an avalanche of clichés. A film-making crew led by director Ian (Rufus Sewell) is in the Austrian Alps to record the ski stylings of gold-medallist Chloe (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras). Ian is distracted and keeps ringing his girlfriend because they had a bust-up, though he does manage to hang up when the crew spot wanted Serbian war criminal Pavle (Klaus Lowitsch), and then have to avoid being killed by him. There is a lot of drunken camaraderie among the young boarders and film-makers, but director Christian Duguay's narrative loses out to the obvious — including some rather fake-looking CGI effects. The result is not so much macho as mechanical.
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A nauseatingly smooth Englishman (Sewell) leads a band of extreme sports enthusiasts up an Austrian mountain to film an... read more on Time Out
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Worse than expected
Getting this movie I was not expecting a great deal as by far the majority of Hollywood attempts to integrate 'extreme' sports result in mediocrity. I was hoping there may be some good action footage and fun although fairly mindless watch. However this movie was just full of repetitive bad footage, a middle aged movie executives clich?s on what pro skating/snowboarding people should be, bad script and mediocre acting. Not worth wasting any of your life watching.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Worse than expected
Getting this movie I was not expecting a great deal as by far the majority of Hollywood attempts to integrate 'extreme' sports result in mediocrity. I was hoping there may be some good action footage and fun although fairly mindless watch. However this movie was just full of repetitive bad footage, a middle aged movie executives clich?s on what pro skating/snowboarding people should be, bad script and mediocre acting. Not worth wasting any of your life watching.
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Extreme Ops
Ian (Rufus Sewell) is a director of extreme sports films who sets out with a stunt team to out-ski an avalanche for his latest digital video camera commercial. Slacker cameraman Will (Devon Sawa) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana Pallaske) who likes to snowboard on and behind trains with skate ...
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