Extreme Ops

"Fear is a trigger."

Reviewed 5.14.03

Directed by Christian Duguay

Story by Timothy Scott Bogart and Mark Mullin

Screenplay by Michael Zaidan

Starring Devon Sawa, Rupert Graves, Bridgette Wilson, and Rufus Sewell

Rated PG-13 for violence/peril, language and some nudity

Ever go to the video store and have the feeling that you don't care what you watch, you just want to watch something?  Well, I had this feeling and two free rental coupons that were going to expire if I didn't use them, so I thought... what the hell?  I'll just rent a couple of flicks I'd never seen and if they suck, they suck... I just didn't have to pay for them.

Well, one of those flicks I rented for free was Extreme Ops and, if you ask me, I overpaid.

I mean, honestly... I should have seen the warning signs when I noticed that the DVD cover art looked just like an X Box game.

Devon Sawa is in desperate need of a haircut and an ass-kicking in Extreme Ops.

Man alive, is THIS a flaming pile of frogshit.  In this movie - copying off that annoying X-Games trend than brought us xXx - we follow a team of extreme sports nuts who venture to Austria to shoot a television commercial that requires them to ski in front of an avalanche.  All is well and good until they come across a dictator on the run who wants to kill them.

Well, get in line there, pal.

This movie is awful.  It's not exciting, it's not thrilling, it's not interesting, it's not funny, and it's not anything that even a marginally acceptable movie should be.  Devon Sawa wanders aimlessly through this movie like he's high on something (which must explain why he chose this theatrical genital disease over appearing in Final Destination 2), and the rest of the cast are annoying and forgettable.  Even Bridgette Wilson and Rufus Sewell, who I normally like, are high on my shit list because of this turd.

This is a bad movie interrupted by pointless instances of extreme lunacy.  It's full of characters that could use a good slapping and dialogue that's so bad, it's almost funny.

Let me put it to you this way... it's a sad, sad, sad thing that you wind up actually rooting for the avalanche at the end of the movie.

And since when can they show a small floppy penis in a PG-13 movie!?

Spend any money on seeing this flick, and you'll only execute an extreme oops.

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