It's an OK remake of a good movie

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2015)

So of course I went into 2015's Point Break very skeptical. I remember 1991's version with fondness and I was not looking forward to the remake, but remakes happen in Hollywood. That's how it's been since its birth. What I will give this remake is that it did a good job of not being like the original.
The basic plot is the same. A young FBI agent is assigned to go undercover to find a group of action sports athletes committing crimes.
What's the difference? the big difference is the sure epicness this movie tries to put down on you. It's scaled to the max. The original basically took place on a beach, but the remake takes place on some of the biggest most beautiful mountains around the world. Bohdi and his band of misfits go from being surfer bums to globe trotting thrill seekers. The big budget is definitely the sign of the times we live in and helps raise the bar. some of the action sports sequences were amazing to look at.
Another sign of the times was how they tried to give the characters more depth. The bank robbers seem to be more spiritually incline, stating their actions are for a good cause bigger than themselves and that they are actually liberating the money.
Though the action sequences are...nice to look at, I was not really buying the righteousness of the villains. It makes the movie cheesy.
Plus the new guys they got playing Johnny Utah and Bohdi are no where near as compelling as what Keenu Reeves and The late great Patrick Swayze did with the roles. This is where the movie really does not hold a candle to the original.
I'll give this movie credit. It's called Point Break, but it stands on it's own and for the most part it does a good job of it. The action is bigger, but only decent, and I don't like what they did with the characters this time around.