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NUMBERS
Box Office: $4,061,981
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CAST & CREW
Tony Hawk, Dave Mirra, Travis Pastrana
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SYNOPSIS
All the excitement and explosive drama of action sports is displayed on the exhilarating giant screen in “Ultimate X,” a look into ESPN ® ’s massively popular Summer X Games. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, for daredevil sports action and mild language
RUNTIME
47 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: May 10, 2002
Video: Feb 4, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Touchstone Pictures
GENRE
Sports/Recreation, Sports, Sports (General)
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Ultimate X: The Movie Site
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POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "At a brief 42 minutes, we need more X and less blab."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"For every articulate player, such as skateboarder Tony Hawk or BMX rider Mat Hoffman, are about a half dozen young Turks angling to see how many times they can work the words “radical” or “suck” into a sentence."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
 "Via the IMAX format -- and some blown-up DV -- we get loads of high-adrenaline kicks, as well as some very peculiar philosophy."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"It's an exhilarating blast that makes good use of the large-format screen."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"If you're an extreme sports fan, this is probably a must own DVD."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"It briefly flirts with player masochism, but the point of real interest -– audience sadism -- is evaded completely."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
"Little more than a super-sized infomercial for the cable-sports channel and its Summer X Games."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"Ultimate X smoothes out the rough edges of Evel [Kneivel]'s bad boy tradition and delivers a film that keeps mom and dad in on the cool -- Disney with a little flava."
-- Herb Lash, BIG MOVIE ZONE
"You feel like you're the one moving at 80 mph, not the street lugers."
-- Dan Gross, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Rad fun for sports fans and sedentary folks alike."
-- Howard Cohen, MIAMI HERALD
"The most enjoyable 40 minutes I've ever spent watching a large-format, IMAX-type movie."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"While the finished product is still fun, never dull and the athletes themselves remarkable, inspired and apt, the production could have been improved."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
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-- Gary Cogill, WFAA-TV
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FRESH 64%
Avg. Rating: 6.4/10 |
"Great fun both for sports aficionados and for ordinary louts whose idea of exercise is climbing the steps of a stadium-seat megaplex."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"For a film about action, Ultimate X is the gabbiest giant-screen movie ever, bogging down in a barrage of hype."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Most of Ultimate X is comprised of truly exhilarating footage of men -- and one woman -- pushing their bodies and their nerve to the edge."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"These self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously, their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"Provides a satisfactory overview of the bizarre world of extreme athletes as several daredevils express their own views."
-- Luke Sader, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Ultimate X is a ride, basically the kind of greatest-hits reel that might come with a subscription to ESPN the Magazine."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"The format gets used best ... to capture the dizzying heights achieved by motocross and BMX riders, whose balletic hotdogging occasionally ends in bone-crushing screwups."
-- Ed Halter, VILLAGE VOICE
"There's lots of cool stuff packed into ESPN's Ultimate X."
-- Dan DeLuca, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games, we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Transcends its agenda to deliver awe-inspiring, at times sublime, visuals and offer a fascinating glimpse into the subculture of extreme athletes whose derring-do puts the X into the games."
-- Kevin Crust, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Writer/director Bruce Hendricks subtracts from the experience by crafting a corporate propaganda film posing as a documentary."
-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- Click to read the article.
-- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
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-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
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-- Margaret A. McGurk, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Ultimate X: The Movie" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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