Fear is a trigger.
Features: DVD, Widescreen
Bursting with adrenaline-pumping action, breathtaking suspense and the most amazing extreme-sports sequences captured on film, Extreme Ops takes you for the ultimate thrill ride.On a remote Austrian mountaintop, a filmcrew, three daredevil American snowboarders, and a professional downhill skier have gathered to shoot a spectacular stunt for a TV commercial. The stunt is perilous, but an even greater danger soon appears - known terrorists are hiding near the crew's camp. Now the extreme athletes must use their extraordinary skills for their greatest challenge: to stop a terrorist threat...and escape a treacherous mountain with their lives.
"Good fun, good action, good acting, good dialogue, good pace, good cinematography." Ross Anthony, The Hollywood Report Card
Editor's Note
Ian (Rufus Sewell) is a director of extreme sports films who sets out with a stunt team to out-ski an avalanche for his latest digital video camera commercial. Slacker cameraman Will (Devon Sawa) has a crush on punk chick Kittie (Jana Pallaske) who likes to snowboard on and behind trains with skate maniac Silo (Joe Absolom). The newcomer who must prove her mettle is Chloe (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), a sweet, blonde gold-medal ski champ trying to measure up to these charismatic lunatics. Their quest for the right peak takes them high up into a mountain range near Yugoslavia, where they soon run afoul of an evil Serb general and his minions. Their beer and hot-tub nights come to a halt as the gang find themselves fighting, snowboarding, and skiing for their lives all the way back down the mountain. Breathtaking outdoor scenery, stunts, rapid-fire editing and the thunderous electronica score all work overtime in this high-octane film. In addition, there are sturdy performances from the attractive cast, and a script mercifully free of corny dialogue and groan-inducing one-liners. Hamlet on ice this ain't, but potential viewers cruising for a no-frills adrenaline-rush will do well to take the plunge.
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