A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports
athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented,
sophisticated corporate heists. "Point Break" is inspired by the classic
1991 hit.
Director:
Ericson CoreWriters:
Kurt Wimmer (screenplay), Rick King (story)Stars:
Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray WinstoneStoryline
A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports
athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented,
sophisticated corporate heists. Deep undercover, and with his life in
danger, he strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the
mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world's financial markets.
Filmed on four continents, North America, Europe, South America and
Asia, "Point Break" presents extraordinary feats performed by the
world's top extreme sports athletes, and involves some of the most
daring exploits ever committed to film. Extreme sports featured include
snowboarding, wingsuit flying, free rock climbing, high-speed motocross,
and surfing 70-foot waves.
Movie Reviews
Point Break (2015)
I sincerely hope the
original Point Break is much different than this lifeless, hippy-dippy,
overblown Mountain Dew commercial. I've never seen the original movie,
so I have no bias towards it. Based on the movie's own merit's, the
Point Break remake is laughably awful. In Point Break, a rookie FBI
agent tracks down a group of extreme athletes who go around the world
carrying out crimes in unusual and life-threatening ways; they plan to
do a series of near- impossible stunts called the Ozaki 8 in hopes of
reaching spiritual enlightenment. At least, that was the plot for about
ten minutes before the movie devolves into a series of party scenes and
surprisingly dull extreme sports clips that could have been easily
viewed on YouTube, all set to irritating club music. It takes a special
director to make BASE jumping and cliff diving this boring. Ericson Core
builds as little suspense as possible in his action set pieces and
instead films admittedly well-shot highlights reels for the action
scenes. Any sort of suspense conjured up is because of the great
cinematography because the characters are so flat and annoying that you
almost wish they would get killed off. Everyone in this movie acts
stoned out of their mind. All they do is spit faux- philosophical
nonsense which gets tiring after the first twenty minutes. It gets
laughable towards the end of the movie with lines like "Ideas are
strong. But not as strong as a whaling ship," and no amount of context
will make that line any less ridiculous. The unbearable dialog, muddled
plot and dull characters makes this Point Break remake utterly
pointless. If you're not a fan of remakes, this will make you reach your
breaking point.
