The Original is Better

Rating: 6/10 (25 December 2015)

I saw "Point Break", starring Edgar Ramirez-Zero Dark Thirty, The Bourne Ultimatum; Luke Bracey-The November Man, G.I.Joe:Retaliation, Teresa Palmer-Warm Bodies, The Grudge 2 and Delroy Lindo-Domino, The One.
This is a remake of the classic 1991 Point Break, which starred Keanu Reeves & Patrick Swayze. FYI: Neither one of them make a cameo in this one and it would have been extremely hard for Swayze to appear, since he has passed away. Edgar has the Swayze role of Bodhi and Luke has the Reeves role of Utah. For anyone unfamiliar with the original-Shame on you-Edgar is the leader of a group of extreme sports fanatics that have been robbing some financial market corporations and giving the loot back to the poor. They claim to be following in the footsteps of their extreme sports idol Ozaki. Ozaki had an extreme competition called the Ozaki 8, which was a list of challenges that would balance nature-don't ask me how-but even Ozaki never finished all 8 challenges-he died around number 4. Luke is a former extreme sports star-he excelled in motorcross and snowboarding-that has joined the F.B.I. and wants to earn his badge in the field. Luckily for him, a case has come up where his qualifications will come in handy, and his boss, Delroy in the Gary Busey role, puts him on the case. Luke infiltrates Edgar's gang and meets Teresa, in the Lori Petty role, and the romantic sparks start flying. The story is pretty close to the original, with extreme sports being more prominent here-sometimes, it's almost like watching a commercial for an extreme sports channel, what with all the snowboarding, wingsuit flying, free rock climbing, motorcross and surfing going on. It's not a bad movie, I just liked the original better-maybe because of Keanu, Patrick and Gary. But if you are into extreme sports, you may like it better than I did. It's rated "PG-13" for perilous activity, violence, drug use, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 53 minutes. I don't know if I would buy it on DVD but it would be alright as a rental.