Extreme ops
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Extreme ops |
| Original title | Extreme ops |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom , Germany , Luxembourg |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Duguay |
| script |
Michael Zaidan Timothy Scott Bogart Mark Mullin |
| production |
Moshe Diamant Jan Fantl |
| music |
Normand Corbeil Stanislas Syrewicz |
| camera | Hannes Hubach |
| cut |
Clive Barrett Sylvain Lebel |
| occupation | |
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Extreme Ops [ ɪkstri: m ɒps ] is an action film from the year 2002 with Rufus Sewell and Heino Ferch , directed by Christian Duguay .
action
An American film team is shooting a commercial for a new video camera for a Japanese electronics company. When producer Jeffrey fell out with team leader Ian over the recordings for the end of the commercial, he had the solution for the end: the computer animation of a skier running away from an avalanche . The Japanese clients are enthusiastic about it, but in a hasty moment Jeffrey promises the Japanese full-bodied to shoot the stunt with a real avalanche. After initial doubts and anger over Jeffrey, the team is finally ready. You are now looking for suitable comrades-in-arms for the breakneck action and you will find what you are looking for in the freaky rock singer Kittie and the extreme athletes Will and Silo . The group is completed by Chloe , an Olympic gold medalist in downhill skiing , who has been brought in by Jeffrey , who is supposed to perform the dangerous shot run.
The commercial is to be realized in the Austrian Karawanken . On site in Ischgl , Ian and his right-hand man Mark go looking for a location with the local guide Zoran . In the process, near the border with the former Yugoslavia , they come across a wind power plant under construction and an associated hotel on a mountain peak that is operated by Serbs . Meanwhile, Chloe, Kittie, Will and Silo get closer at après-ski , with Will raving about Kittie, who only has eyes for Silo. A failed snowboard stunt ultimately ensures that the team is kicked out and inevitably moves to the Serbian hotel.
Tensions arise between Chloe and Ian during the first test shoots, as Ian is afraid for Chloe that she will not be able to make the descent in time and be killed by the avalanche. Besides, he's now fallen in love with her. During their stay, Will and Silo meet the mysterious Yana and want to record a video in front of her. However, they also take in an unknown man who obviously does not want to be recognized. After a breakneck escape, they can get to safety.
On the day of the recording, the Serb Slavko suddenly bursts into the scene with a few henchmen and threatens the film team. He wants the video of Will and Silo back. The film team can only be saved by distraction from Mark, who ignites the avalanche. The gangsters shoot each other while the team escapes from Zoran's helicopter. Here it finally turns out: the mysterious man on the video is Slobodan Pavlov , a former Yugoslav soldier and war criminal who officially died in a plane crash. Pavlov uses his death to go into hiding in the hotel and to lull his pursuers into safety. In order to be able to prepare a bomb attack on a Dutch courthouse with his men in peace, he has to remain undetected. Slavko was also his son.
The team decided to flee immediately. But Zoran, who fears for his own safety and that of the film people, makes a pact with Pavlov's Serbs that costs him his life. Pavlov is able to intercept the team in the cable car , but shortly before they are captured, Ian and Co. jump off and escape their pursuers in their helicopters on skis and snowboards. Near the city, Ian and Chloe distract the gangsters before Mark can destroy the gangsters helicopter with a risky stunt . Pavlov and his henchmen perish in the explosion. This in turn triggers a new avalanche from which Ian and Chloe escape. In doing so, both succeed in making the decisive film for the spot.
The commercial turns out to be a hit, and Ian and Chloe a couple.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films judges: “A crude mixture of commercial, action film and thriller with an extremely bad script and wooden dialogues. An unpopular compulsory exercise, uninspired picked up from various other films. "
Alexander Jachmann describes the film on zelluloid.de as a bad copy of Cliffhanger with a plot that is even thinner than with xXx - Triple X , and consequently a “collection of stupid sayings and confused plot jumps”.
Awards
The film was nominated in 2003 for the Taurus Award in the Best Specialty Stunt category for a scene in which the stunt men Patrick Cometto and Charlie let themselves be pulled by a cable in front of a train while performing artistic maneuvers on their snowboard.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Trivia
- Extreme Ops was filmed in Vancouver , in the Babelsberg film studio , in the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the United States, as well as in the Austrian and Swiss Alps . The production cost was approximately $ 26.5 million.
- “To Werner” appears briefly before the end credits. The film is dedicated to Werner König, a crew member who was killed by an avalanche in 2000 while searching for suitable locations for the film.
- Extreme Ops was the last film with Klaus Löwitsch. The German actor died on December 3, 2002 in Munich, just a few days after the movie was released.
- The geographical information is contradictory: the location for the commercial is said to be the Karawanken (a mountain range in Carinthia ), while Ischgl is a place in the west of Tyrol.
- Most of the film was shot in the Zugspitze region in Tyrol. The stunt scenes with the train were also filmed here. It is a stretch of the Ausserfernbahn between Bichlbach and Reutte . The train station shown in the film is in Bichlbach in Tyrol and not in Ischgl, as Ischgl does not have a train connection.
- Base jumper Felix Baumgartner worked as a stuntman for this film.
Web links
- Extreme Ops in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Extreme Ops at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Website of the film distributor UIP
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Extreme Ops . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Extreme Ops. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Alexander "Heinz" Jachmann: Critique. In: Zelluloid.de. March 13, 2003, archived from the original on June 7, 2016 ; accessed on September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Jury: Extreme Ops. In: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . 2003, accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ^ Tuvok: Extreme Ops . In: filmz.de . March 16, 2003.
- ^ Günter H. Jekubzik: Extreme Ops . In: filmtabs.de .