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75Quibbles aside, Ultimate X zips by speedily and is rad fun for sports fans and sedentary folks alike.
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75In a feat of truly impressive cinematic finesse, Hendricks manages to capture every possible angle, from below a soaring motorcycle to atop a speeding luger's helmet.
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75Most of Ultimate X is comprised of truly exhilarating footage of men -- and one woman -- pushing their bodies and their nerve to the edge.
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70All of this looks great on the giant IMAX screen -- most things do -- but the filmmakers can't shake the sense that this is an inflated TV special.
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The film's strengths may actually work against it with younger fans who might be disappointed by the few stomach-churning, white-knuckler moments.
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70In the end, after the super-modified shovel racing, wild half-pipe action and integral employment of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," there's a poignancy to the piece.
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63After clawing their way into the Olympics, so-called extreme sports deserve respect, but this is no way to get it.
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This being the "ultimate" movie about "extreme" sports, there's a lot of superlative slinging in the commentary.
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Nausea-inducing street luge provides the requisite kinesthetic thrill of this mega-cinematic genre.
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50Instead of a balanced film that explains the zeitgeist that is the X Games, we get a cinematic postcard that's superficial and unrealized.
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50This compilation of blisteringly tight stunts plays like the world's longest Mountain Dew commercial.
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50Most impressive in an objective sense, as a technical exercise -- its staccato technique preventing greater involvement.
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40Happily, a feeling of genuine comradeship among these athletes shines through, and their irreverent, go-for-broke comments are a jolt of fun compared to the usual canned epigrams from pampered sports multimillionaires.