CURRENT ISSUE 12/10/02 Front Page Weekly Features Ain't That America? To-Do List: Hans Blix Moth's Diary News from Travistan Movie Corner Info Archives Crap Shop Who's at Fault? Contact Us! Aye, mateys! Get you some Daily Probe booty!	Daily Probe Movie Review by Preston Fillagre   Extreme Ops Extreme Ops presents us with a trenchant examination of unreality versus reality that Henry James would be proud of. The stage is set for this psychological phantasie by using the "film within a film" mechanism, further accentuated by actors who portray their parts with such a deliberately unconvincing air it is to take one's breath away. Our visceral impulses are left unengaged with the active elements these homunculi portray since the very laws of physics are repeatedly broken, not to mention a relentless disregard for the rules of probability that govern our universe. Thus unencumbered, our minds reel with the struggle each character must undergo as he contends with a suffocating pastiche of absurdity. The poignancy of humankind's struggle between the universe in its objective and independent manifestation and the phenomenological realm of private experience is made by the apparent internal belief of the characters that they actually exist in earnest (a belief clearly not shared by the players, themselves), when no such possessors of life in verite would experience a life-or-death chase through the mountains that includes skiing, snowboarding, sky diving, white-water rafting, helicopters, motorcycles, and base jumping without crying out to awaken from such a poorly contrived dream. Devastatingly revealing.
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