Point Break: YouTube action real with a sprinkle of plot.

Rating: 8/10 (12 April 2016)

Warning: anyone with a fear of heights, the ocean, dying, or just about anything should avoid director Ericson Core's new film Point Break. This action film will have you wanting to look away but forcing you to keep your eyes glued to the screen. Following the mission of FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) to capture a group of extreme athletes, eco-warriors and take-from-the-rich Robin Hoods, Point Break mixes NCIS, the X games, and Greenpeace promotional videos. Reminding viewers of a Red Bull YouTube real, nearly 75 professional extreme athletes and stunt performers —surfers, climbers, snowboarders, divers, proximity flyers, motocross racers, long boarders, and more— work together to contribute their skills to make intense scenes all over the world. Professionally and tastefully captured, these scenes cause viewers' hearts to leap and their stomachs to drop. In one scene Johnny Utah and Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez), the athletes' leader, perform a suspenseful free climb, no ropes, to the very top of beautiful Angel Falls. Upon reaching the top, Utah reprimands Bodhi for the laws he has broken and tries to arrest him. Bodhi responds, "The only law that matters is gravity" and jumps off the cliff. However suspenseful and intriguing, if looked at as a re-boot of the 1991 version of Point Break the film falls extremely short, ignoring nearly the entire original storyline and plot to create something new yet extreme. Although Point Break (2015) may disappoint fans of the original still remains an awe- inspiring, adrenaline rushing, must-see film.