Production value on the film is high – an early sequence involving money dropping from a plane with two parachuting dudes release the banknotes into the atmosphere is suitably frenetic, and the following action sequences, of which there are plenty, involve a truck-ton of death-defiance and skill. Missing the brotherhood bonding of the original film, and a preponderance of globetrotting escapades that’d make James Bond envious, Point Break’s action-oriented plotting deliver only perfunctory thrills amid a generic arc of confused honour-among-thieves archetypes. On the one hand, it has a weird xXx vibe going on, with Johnny Utah’s “undercover” operation to bust a high profile extreme sports crime gang, and on the other it’s a generic, mild action film with delusions of excitement. Point Break is the kind of film that doesn’t quite seem to know what it wants to be. As he begins to infiltrate the gang, meeting Ramirez’ companion Samsara (Teresa Palmer), Johnny begins to find solace in the lifestyle and freedom Bodhi offers.
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His contact with British intelligence, Pappas (Ray Winstone) informs him that the leader of the gang is Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez), ostensible a surfer but a man bankrolled to achieve the mythical Ono Osaki 8, a series of endurance challenges which have never been completed. In doing so, he comes under the auspices of FBI Instructor Hall (Delroy Lindo), who sends him on a mission to infiltrate a gang of X-sport criminals committing heists across the globe. Everyone else will be best served skipping it.įollowing a disastrous end to his extreme-sport career, Johnny Utah ( The November Man’s Luke Bracey) looks to become an FBI agent. In terms of its uniqueness within action cinema, there’s virtually nothing in Point Break you haven’t seen before, and as far as story and characters go there’s a vacuum of creative nuance overriding anything director Ericson Core might wish to stamp his authority on, so if all it takes to entertain you is dudes doing crazy skiing, windriding or parachuting (etc etc), then you’ll be perfectly happy with this cookie-cutter flick designed to take your gullible money. With its X-treme sports aesthetic and middling criminal subplot mixed with frustratingly obtuse acting performances and a penchant for indifferent direction, Point Break’s 2015 edition seems hell bent on pulverising audiences with crazy stunts and thunderous sound design. Nobody asked for a Point Break remake – hell, if anything we clamoured for a sequel, before Patrick Swayze’s untimely passing – but I guess we got one anyway.
Synopsis: A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. Principal Cast : Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Clemens Schick, Matias Varela, Tobias Santelmann, Max Theriot, Delroy Lindo, Ray Winstone.
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