Extreme Ops (2002)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Christian Duguay

Writers (WGA):

Timothy Scott Bogart (story) and
Mark Mullin (story) ...

Release Date:

27 November 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

Tagline:

Fear is a trigger

Plot:

While filming a advertisment, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.

Plot Keywords:

Extreme Sports | Helicopter | Avalanche | Film Crew | Skiing

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Devon Sawa	...	Will
Bridgette Wilson	...	Chloe (as Brigette Wilson-Sampras)
Rupert Graves	...	Jeffrey
Rufus Sewell	...	Ian
Heino Ferch	...	Mark
Joe Absolom	...	Silo
Jana Pallaske	...	Kittie
Jean-Pierre Castaldi	...	Zoran
Liliana Komorowska	...	Yana
Klaus Löwitsch	...	Pavlov
David Scheller	...	Slavko
Detlef Bothe	...	Ratko
Heinrich Schmieder	...	Goran
Franjo Marincic	...	Ivo
Rade Radovic	...	Jaksa

Also Known As:

Extremist (Philippines: English title)
The Extremists (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

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

Runtime:

93 min | Argentina:94 min

Country:

UK | Germany | Luxembourg

Language:

English | German | Japanese | Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #34813) | Iceland:10 (theatrical rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Malaysia:U | Netherlands:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Ireland:12 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:12A

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

The closing credits begin with 'To Werner' - Werner Koenig had died in an avalanche in 2000 while location scouting for this movie.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the producer is being dangled over the edge of the building, his leg returns to vertical by a very unhuman path.

Quotes:

Silo: What's up, bitches!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fear of Clowns (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

Notorious

Nothing extreme about these ops.

Hmm. You know, sometimes I wonder why we're screwed up as a species. I was watching Extreme Ops in the comfort of my home and suddenly the world fell silent, and a wave of emptiness fell upon me as a poorly matted Bridgette Wilson escaped a fake avalanche just in time for a ski jump to take out some excruciatingly recycled terrorists who were busy being evil for no other reason than because the script says to. I looked around to find myself in alien surroundings. My home was no longer my home, but a void of everlasting darkness in which no form of goodness, nor light, nor hope could ever be found. And from the belly of this neverending realm of pain and celluloid death could be heard the sound of English actor Rufus Sewell dismantling his once promising career with lines of dialogue like "Are you ready to know what it's like to ski in front of an avalanche?" Oh, the pain. Soon, all this agony ceased, and numbness set in. My world shrank and suddenly I felt nothing at all, and I realized that everything I had ever done was meaningless, and all I had was nothing at all so long as Devon Sawa continues to hang from a cliff and ask a girl out in the middle of a terrorist attack just before feigning suicide for "team sacrifice". My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

But then, something happened. The darkness parted, and the shroud of peril lifted and I awoke from my numbness to find that I was in deed at home. My furniture was still here and all my things were as I had left them. I wondered to my self, "What happened?" And then I looked to my television and saw credits rolling. The deed was done. And the darkness had gone. But only until the sequel. (Fat chance)

This movie sucks. I hate it almost as much as it hates me. 1/10