Daredevil snowboarders run afoul of generically scruffy eastern European terrorists while filming a TV commercial in the Austrian Alps and must extreme-board for their lives in this virtually plot-less waste of celluloid. Director Christian Duguay (The Art of War, Screamers) employs the worst stunt editing and cheapest action-movie production values since projected backdrops gave way to blue screen effects (apparently without anyone notifying Duguay). So, if the movie's showpiece scenes feature action-pantomiming actors on a laughably obvious soundstage, you can imagine how little the filmmakers care about the story or cue-card-quality performances. One of the new breed of "extreme" action movies (lead by XXX, in which Vin Diesel outruns an avalanche in a sequence infinitely cooler than anything in this bomb), Extreme Ops is clearly a B-movie within an already B-movie genre. Not recommended. (R. Blackwelder)
Extreme Ops
Paramount, 93 min., PG-13, VHS: $106.99, DVD: $29.99, May 6 Volume 18, Issue 3
Extreme Ops
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