Thinking on it after watching it a few hours ago, you can’t look at it any other way that the studio just used the ‘Point Break’ title just to generate a little bit of money for nostalgia purposes, as bar using the character names, there’s nothing at all here that resembles the original. Often parodied (famously in Hot Fuzz), ‘the shooting gun in the air and going aaargh’ redone from the original for this remake just may be the most unintentionally funny moment I’ve seen in film this year. The film actually reaches a stage where everyone remembers that they are actually making a Point Break remake and add in some key elements from the original film into this extreme sports setting that it just doesn’t work at all. The problem with the film comes down to the script and Point Break title in general. I’ll admit that the cinematography work from director Ericson Core here is terrific and along with the stunt sequences that occur here, it proves to be the main strengths of the film itself such as the heist above Mexico unloading the two giant stacks of money, to wave riding off the coast of France, to wingsuit flying through the cliffs, it’s all well shot and edited together. While the original film had some cheese and humour to go with its action flair, here the film is giving a makeover and extreme sports revamp and to be bluntly honest, this remake is pretty lifeless in its execution. After all Kathryn Bigelow’s version of the tale has reached a fine status after the original Point Break‘s release back in 1991 about an out of his depth rookie cop going undercover to befriend a group that he comes to believe are a group of robbers known as the Ex-Presidents. I’ll admit that even when it was originally announced, a Point Break seemed like a mind boggling concept to take on. After predicting where the next attempt will be, Utah is sent undercover to France and strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world’s financial markets. Utah does some digging and believes that the heists are done by the same group, who are attempting to complete the Osaki 8, a list of extreme ordeals to honour the forces of nature. Another heist happens over Mexico in the air sometime later where the criminals unload millions of dollar bills, vanishing without a trace. Point Break us following former extreme sports athlete turned FBI agent candidate Johnny Utah, attending a briefing on a skyscraper heist where the criminal group steal the diamonds and escape by parachute. STARRING: Luke Bracey, Édgar Ramírez, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer, Matias Varela, Clemens Schick, Tobias Santelmann, Max Thieriot, Nikolai Kinski, Bojesse Christopher, James Le Gros and Delroy LindoĪ young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists.
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