The only real issue is that I wished theyd use more of the extereme sports to escape. They just did it once. What I did like was the visuals and the camera work.

This was a good was to kick back and burn off stress of the day. If you like this sort of thing (I could take or leave extereme sports) then you may want to check this out.

The stunts are no doubt over the top, just as you would expect, and the characters all contribute some good humor. Dont put on huge expectations, and youll be rewarded with a good ride.

Fortunately, some of the stunt sequences are enjoyable, saving this turkey from a one-star review. The best stunt scene occurs when two of the characters are being chased through the resort by some dobermans (I know it sounds lame!). In addition, some viewers will likely enjoy the snowboarding scenes, and the scenery is beautiful. Just dont look too closely at the close-ups, because theyre pretty terrible. The film was nominated for Best Specialty Stunt from the World Stunt Awards (alongside Die Another Day, XXX, & Blue Crush).

The characters -- Devon Sawa ("Final Destination"), Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, Rufus Sewell, Joe Absolom, Jana Paranske -- are hired to make a promotion video for Japanese client. (Inexplicably, only Ms. Wilson-Sampras is American among the main cast. Devon Sawa is Canadian.) They are going to travel to the Alps, all camping out in the construction site of a resort hotel up on a lonely mountain. But when this rag-tag team encounter a group of terroists (dont ask me why), they are forced to use their skills for extreme sports to survive the deadly fight against them.

The story is silly, but not bad. "Cliffhanger" was silly -- you know, Sly must have been dead within five minutes with that clothes -- but not a bad actioner after all, giving a series of great stunts. And "Extreme Ops" offers some great stunts, and actors are certainly doing their jobs. See, for example, Devon Sawa hanging from the tail of the train, strapped to it by ropes. You can see people doing skateboarding on a moving train, behind a moving train, and so on.

But the drirector Christian Dugay arrange them in a meaningless way, editing so badly that you just dont know what is going on particularly in the first scenes about the canoe riding. To make matters worse, as the film reaches its climax, you will see the cheesy CGIs, a crazy soldier with bad acting, and some ridiculous tactics that the characters use to protect them from the killers, all of which tell that the film is running out of tricks, and this feeling kills the excitement this kind of film should offer.

Not so bad as some people say, but "Extreme Ops" tells us why "XXX" is a great fun -- charisma of Vin Diesel, sexy Asia Argento, and great stunts aptly shown on the screen, all of which lack here.

Trivia: "Yana" is played by Liliana Komorowska, wife of director Christian Dugay, and she can be seen many of his films like "Screamers."

One of the major "plot" points for the movie can be seen about 5 minutes into it. Unfortunately that point isnt revisited until MUCH, MUCH later.

In between, the extreme skiiers and company are busy trying to film scenes for a Japanese business man and his daughter. There are a lot of high flying action shots but that wasnt enough to keep me and my friends interested.

Not recommended for anyone unless you like to have a good laugh at how bad this movie is.

I am sure that there is an audience out there for this movie but I am not a part of it.

There certainly is an attraction for the idea of this movie which combines a high degree of action and high jinx. Alas, minor considerations such as a half-decent plot and script matter even then. Other reviewers have summarized the plot (sic) well enough and I have nothing to add to those comments.

However, this movie does show some promise and could easily be remade as a major event. The popularity of XXX showed what such movies can achieve and I hope that this will be taken on board. The concept is a good one with a certain truth contained in a one-liner about the challenges facing skiers who go down the same hill as hundreds of others in a quest to shave off a millionth of a second of someones record.

There is certainly a market out there which extends beyond the adolescent and young adults who are clearly the targets of this flick. There is an unmet need for a good action movie with the thrills that are promised here but with more substance and gravitas that found here and with a sexual interest that is more than a fixation upon large boobs.

Certainly a fun and entertaining movie but one which does not stand too much close inspection. As Roxy Music once titled an album, Remake Remodel.

The skiiers had to dodge being a rouge politcal outlaw in the mountains. the film has two of the skiiers outmaneuvering an avalanch on one scene and another of the skiier as a trick to his fellow skiier, feining to be falling to his death when he is cut from the bungie that was sustaining him, but opens his parachute as he falls down the mountain.

I dont know the actresses name, but for me I thought the actress with the jet-black hair, who played an extreme skiier who didnt think skiing down mountains "that had been skiied 100 times before" was very beautiful and vivacious throughout the movie. She alone was worth the price of admission.

The skiiers had to dodge being a rouge politcal outlaw in the mountains. the film has two of the skiiers outmaneuvering an avalanch on one scene and another of the skiier as a trick to his fellow skiier, feining to be falling to his death when he is cut from the bungie that was sustaining him, but opens his parachute as he falls down the mountain.

I dont know the actresses name, but for me I thought the actress with the jet-black hair, who played an extreme skiier who didnt think skiing down mountains "that had been skiied 100 times before" was very beautiful and vivacious throughout the movie. She alone was worth the price of admission.