Extreme Limits Reviews

It is amazing how much production director Jay Andrews (also known as Jim Wynorski) manages to get on the screen. This one has it all: A jet exploding in mid-air, a plane crashing into a snow-capped mountain (and breaking in half), a spark-filled tractor-trailer wreck, an impressive detonation of a U.S.-Canada border bridge, a deadly avalanche, a hungry grizzly, fistfights, and shoot-outs with Uzis. Some of it deserves to be seen, particularly the airplane stunts, the truck crash, and the bridge explosion, but some of it needs to be sent back to B-movieland for retooling: The hammy acting, the hollow characters, the too-easy plot, and especially that man-eating bear, which not once but twice swallows ridiculously careless characters who deserve to die. What's up with the invention everyone wants? How can brain waves blow up everyone near the thing but not the person wearing the headphones? Ah, forget it. Had Andrews made the story and acting as entertaining as the impressive set pieces, Extreme Limits (nice play on the theatrical hit Vertical Limit, except Extreme has no mountain climbing) might have had a chance.