Extreme Ops (2002)

if i could rate this movie twice it would be 1 and 10 so i chose the middle number of 5. you have to watch this movie knowing its going to be bad. when I bought the DVD so many years ago, when the movie was over i said to myself its a waist of money but i will watch more. it is over the top they mixed die hard with cliffhanger and got something terribly awesome. i would recommend it if you don't have to pay for it like on net flicks or something. this is like movies like poultrygiest and drive thru they are so bad they are good. it is very entertaining and has quite a bit of action.this movie is like the mindless action movies of the 80's just made 20 years to late

An extreme sports advertising firm travels to snowy Eastern Europe to shoot an advert featuring snow-boarding in the middle of an avalanche. Despite the danger, all the thrill-seekers see it as a bit of fun but, when they accidentally get film of a "dead" war criminal very much alive, they find themselves in very real danger.Perhaps unfortunately also known as The Extremists, this film is an European attempt to do what xXx did in regards making an action film out of extreme sports. Now, to many viewers this may feel like a particularly bad overall aim but bear in mind that, instead of American muscle-man Vin Diesel, we've got Rufus Sewell in the lead – "oh sh1111111t boy....it's on now kid, we bringing the C-WELL" etc. You get my point – from the start you cannot shake the feeling that this is a product made without a lot of money sloshing around. With that in mind I did expect it to be awful and it was a weirdly nice surprise to find that it is only "not that good". The plot about terrorists in a remote location is not reached for two-thirds and up till then we just have lots of noisy "extreme sports" action. This snow-boarding stuff is all very well but, without any plotting or characters to speak of, you'd be better off just watching it on one of those channel 4 sports programmes instead.In the final thirty minutes we suddenly have an action movie as one would expect but this is too quick and lacking in tension or the sort of internal realism required to engage the viewer. It pootles along OK I suppose but it never shakes the feeling of being basic mainly because Duguay can't inject action and thrills into it, he does his best but the material is the root of the problem and the film never did anything for me other than distract. The cast don't help the feeling of this being done on the cheap but the bigger problem is that nobody really has a lot of presence or charisma. The only exception to this is Pallaske, who is cute and energetic enough to stick in the mind. Otherwise though we are left with Sewell being too bland for this film, Graves doing a "comedy" character, Wilson being blonde and tall, Sawa (better known as Eminem's Stan) doing not that much and then lots of Eastern European boiler-plates.Extreme Ops offers a mix of so-so extreme sports action, so-so narrative, so-so performances and so-so action. It is no surprise then that the overall film at its best is "so-so" and other than a very lazy Friday night watching cable, I don't think many viewers will find that this meets their needs. "Here we go again" is the final line of the film – extremely unlikely I'd say.

Unless you are really into skiing and watching people ski and snowboard for a good part of an hour and a half and watching people run around in white cold fluffy stuff, just go to bed.It's not a very entertaining movie and the dialog is lame.There's snow and lots of it...and a few nice shots - actually quite a few, but that's the highlight.Take away the gangster scenes and basically what you have is a documentary about skiing and snowboarding.The Olympics skier is told she can't ski...yet she's on a dangerous mountain melting the snow - even though she takes a flip...she's doing some pretty awesome moves.

Well... First to mention that I live in Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavian republic).During this movie I realized that my intelligence and knowledge is way up higher than Hollywood screenwriters and filmmakers is. Up, so high, higher than the Serb's Alps! OOOPS! But Serbia is not Austrian neighbor country, and Belgrade is much more than 70 km away from Alps so HOW CAN ALPS BELONG TO SERBIA!? Have you people (screenwriters and filmmakers, producers etc) ever seen a map of Europe in your life?! I presume that you had F in geography in high-school and that your daddy or mommy paid teacher money to pass it. So, you should first visit http://encarta.msn.com/map_701510050/Alps.html or similar before you make another piece of crap like this (at least you'll be less stupid). AAhhh, yes, another interesting thing is that Serbs are building a ski resort AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN! YEAH RIGHT! I mean, hell yeah, we can do that, but we don't have Alps, ha ha! SOrry, you blew it a lot and someone has to say that...Other things in this movie are more or less lame. I really liked the blonde chick though.