Extreme Ops (2002)

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

Director:

Christian Duguay

Writers:

Timothy Scott Bogart (story), Mark Mullin (story)

Stars:

Rufus Sewell, Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Devon Sawa	...	Will
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras	...	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

Storyline

A film crew travels to the Austrian Alps near the (former) Yugoslav border to film three extreme sports enthusiasts being chased down by an avalanche for a commercial. What they don't know, however, is that they're filming near the secret hideout of Slobodan Pavle, a Serbian war criminal. Accidentally catching him on film, they become locked in a life-or-death chase for their lives through the mountains that includes skiing, snowboarding, sky diving, white water rafting, helicopters, motorcycles and base jumping.

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Plot Keywords:

time bomb | extreme sports | terrorist | serbian | commercial | 

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Taglines:

Speed is a weapon

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

Media 8 Entertainment Paramount Pictures [United States]

Country:

UK Germany Luxembourg

Language:

English German Japanese Serbo-Croatian

Release Date:

27 November 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Extremists

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,233,525, 27 November 2002, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$4,835,968, 12 January 2003

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures,MDP Worldwide,Diamant Cohen Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

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

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Goofs

When Cloe and Kitty are in their room talking about music, Kitty takes of her boots three times.

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Quotes

Silo: What's up, bitches!

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Connections

Referenced in Bad Movie Beatdown: xXx (2012)

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Soundtracks

Not Ready to Rock
Performed by Beatsteaks
Written by Arnim Teutoberg-Weiss, Thomas Götz & Bernd Kurtzke
Courtesy of Epitaph Europe B.V.

User Reviews

Bad filmmaking 101

This film is bad filmmaking 101. A commercial director (Rufus Sewell, who has certainly done better work elsewhere) assembles a group of extreme athletes (including Bridgette Wilson-Sampras as a Gold Medal Skier??) and lugs them off to a secluded area of the Swis Alps to film them outracing an avalance for a DV Camera commercial!!! Of course the same hillside out intrepid filmmakers choose is the hidding place of some terrorist leader, who thinks the bumbling and arguing film crew are actualy CIA Agents trying to nab him! Of course the first hour or so is taken up by inane banter among the athletes, including a raver chick (a dead ringer for early Angelina Jolie) who thinks Sampras gold Medal skier isnt hip enough to be in their crowd... Eventualy, after the obligatory Hot Tub bonding scene, we get to some action when the bad guys chase out heroes down the slopes in a helicopter! Of course the ending is so rediculous that you'll just laugh at the ineptitude of the screenwriters. This is a terrible movie from start to finish. GRADE: F