#Point break 2015 preview movie#
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#Point break 2015 preview series#

When a group of thrill-seeking criminals begin committing crimes, stealing gems and money from enormous international corporations, Utah is able to identify to his superiors that the group is involved in the pursuit of something called the Onaki Eight, a series of death-defying challenges, the completion of which supposedly results in attaining Nirvana. It’s an awful film, but it’s just on the right side of awful.Īfter the death of a close friend, extreme sportsman Johnny Utah ( Luke Bracey) joins the FBI with the intention of introducing order and focus into his life. It’s these sort of gems that keep Core’s film chugging along at an amiable pace. Surfing is largely waylaid in favour of all forms of extreme sports in Core’s remake but the new screenwriters certainly make a flabby attempt at reinstating meaning in the title through this little exchange:

It’s also a play on the term ‘breaking point’, which pertains to the extreme nature of the events in the film. A point break is a type of surfing break. There’s not much about this remake that recalls Kathryn Bigelow’s original Point Break, which was a diverting and well-directed action film that has aged favourably in the minds of fans. That happened a lot when I was watching Youth, which has been far more critically lauded than Point Break. It’s not a good film but then there are degrees of bad film and Point Break occupies a harmless area that’s just about right. My enjoyment of the film occupied a hazy area in which I found the awful dialogue is just as compelling as the adequate action scenes but no moment came during the screening I attended when I found myself wishing I was elsewhere.

Sheesh, can’t they just organise a barn dance in aid of the RSPB? Édgar Ramírez plays the gang’s preening leader, motivating them to do super-dangerous stuff, the primary danger in some cases being that the digital effects are visible.There’s little to recommend regarding the Ericson Core Point Break remake except for the fact that it’s entertaining for almost the entire running time, which is uncommon for films that are supposed to be entertaining. They steal money to give to the poor (sort of) but are basically on a Zen mission to do all this radical show-off stuff as a tribute to capital-N Nature. He plays Utah, the extreme-sports fanatic turned undercover FBI agent who infiltrates a super-cool crew of extreme-sportsy people who rob stuff and then ride their bikes off the top of skyscrapers and pull the ripcords on their parachutes. Luke Bracey is Zoolanderishly good-looking, sporting plenty of transfer-tattoos and as supple and expressive as a surfboard.

#Point break 2015 preview movie#

Hey: what if we could turn all those YouTube hits on extreme sports action into box office cash? What if we did a new version of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action movie about a bank-robbing surfer gang, widened it to include loads of other extreme sports and made it pompously eco-conscious? These are the questions that evidently triggered this fantastically pointless remake, stuffed with humourless and self-important machismo.