This ersatz XXX sends two punked-out extreme snowboarders (Jana Pallaske and Joe Absolom) and a tight-laced Olympic skier (Bridgette Wilson) to the top of the Austrian Alps to film stunts for a TV commercial. Most of it's carefree snow frolics, though the money shots are filmed along the perilous hairline of an invoked avalanche. The extremers have no problem with the rough-and-tumble conditions, but Wilson's gold-medalist is in a world of woes without groomed sloops. Their real problem, however, comes when they run into an escaped Serbian war criminal (Klaus Löwitsch) who doesn't want his whereabouts known.

Directed by Christian Duguay, the film does offer some Warren Miller/extreme thrills -- and it should, since 178 stunt men (some of them real X-Gamers) were employed -- but beyond that, the plot gasps for a pulse. The extremers have no edge once their boards come off, the Slobodan Milosevic angle is ill-developed, not to mention preposterous, and about the only the non-slope running titillation is the gal-on-gal hot-tub kiss between Wilson and Pallaske. Veteran Brit actors Rufus Sewell and Rupert Graves do add some thespian punch as the intrepid video director and the pampered producer, but it's not nearly enough to keep this one from extremely bombing. (93 minutes) At the Apple Valley, Entertainment, Flagship, Holiday, Providence Place Mall 16, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas.