I loved this better than the original

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2016)

9 February 2016 Film of Choice at The Plaza Dorchester Tonight - Point Break. As a Patrick Swayze and a Keanu Reeves fan back in the day I was much in approval of their combining forces to make the original film, and when I heard about a remake I thought we would be going down that old route of second time round becoming rather second rate. I'll stop right there.....this film was very much it's own man!!!!! True we had an FBI agent infiltrating a gang to stop a major crime wave but the the similarities pretty much ground to a halt, unlike the film. Where the original was only centred around surfers, this latest offering was focused on many extreme sports and extremely well focused too. My idea of an extreme sport would be ironing in the garden, but here we are treated to different ways of getting down a mountain, leaving a building when you're over 100 floors up, and my worse nightmare, jumping from a perfectly serviceable aircraft (especially galling when it was a C130). Point Break this time, was grittier, darker, more daring and more dangerous and even when my stomach was churning at everything these guys were doing, I loved every minute of it. My hat goes off to the stunt men, I'm sure there were more than a few bruises to go round. But the script writers too deserve some applause as the story kept going throughout. Don't treat this as a remake, it's a new film and it's great!!!