Extreme Ops: Critic Reviews

The film's most improbable feat? It didn't go straight to video.

Another wholly unnecessary addition to the growing, moldering pile of, well, extreme stunt pictures.

If you're walking past a cinema where it's showing, and it's raining, and you fancy a laugh... I would do something else, to be honest.

In between the icy stunts, the actors spout hilarious dialogue about following your dream and 'just letting the mountain tell you what to do.'

This film is so slick, superficial and trend-hoppy, that it's easy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay.

In their quest for the youth market, Hollywood hacks often dress up their old script ideas in baggy pants and backward baseball caps, but I hope American kids aren't dumb enough to swallow this awful extreme-sports adventure.

A tad more character development would have been nice.

Not once does it come close to being exciting.

An instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product.

A pathetically inane and unimaginative cross between XXX and Vertical Limit.

The characters are paper thin and the plot is so cliched and contrived that it makes your least favorite James Bond movie seem as cleverly plotted as The Usual Suspects.

A movie that feels like the pilot episode of a new teen-targeted action TV series.

The stunt work is top-notch; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny.

Where's Vin Diesel when you need him?

The impossible plot and laugh-out-loud dialogue would have been tolerable if the tricks were impressive.

Some writer dude, I think his name was, uh, Michael Zaidan, was supposed to have like written the screenplay or something, but, dude, the only thing that I ever saw that was written down were the zeroes on my paycheck.

Good extreme snowboarding, poor everything else.

A bad, dumb, mindless film.

An extremely stupid action movie.

No amount of skate tricks or avalanche-dodging ski stunts will win us over if the characters have had their charisma surgically removed.

This is a duff plot, but as an excuse to show lots of people with guns, a lot more people jumping around on snowboards and even more people repeatedly shouting 'Woooo!', it's unbeatable.

We get awful effects and endless shots of stuntmen filling in for B-grade actors (such as Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) traveling down mountains. How fascinating.

An acceptably mindless sanctuary from the annual December attack of important movies duking it out for Oscar glory.

One of the dumbest action movies in recent memory (and that's saying a lot), this is so bad it's almost fun to watch.

So far past its sell-by-date it ought to come with a complimentary funeral wreath.