Helmets are irritating

Rating: 6/10 (10 March 2016)

Well this movie was interesting enough, apart from the ridiculously clichéd, badly tattooed characters...and the ridiculous storyline and the inane disregard for wearing helmets.
Consistently every time the 'crew' entered a dangerous situation wearing helmets, as soon as they fell or took the chase/battle to the next level they had to remove their helmets. Fall off a bike? take of the helmet... Getting shot at and took one in the gut? take off your helmet. no need for that shiz when you're a hard as nails extreme sports athlete.
And whats with the chick 'roofy-ing' this dude, every time he had an emotional/sexual encounter with the chick, he woke up the next day disoriented and just cruises on with the fact that he had just been possibly date-raped against his will, seems to me like they're trivializing the rape game, and only because its a reasonable looking girl she gets away with this devious crime unpunished.
The saving grace was the bad-as-s' cliff climbing sequence which had me shitting my pants with anticipation, solid stuff.
but back to the 'bullshiz', opening scenes, who the hell packs money for international shipping just with a net over it, seems a bit susceptible to the average baggage handler pickpocketing himself a nice wad of cash, but made it much easier for them to waste countless dollars cutting the net thousands of feet up in the air where it would blow all over the godda mn rain-forest and lost forever with the few little settlements getting a little sprinkling of that paper goodness. Surely the 'should've' let the crates fall as a whole, so it would be in a concentrated area, further portraying these 'extreme dudes' as small minded 'dumbasses'.
Again with the gold heist, wasted into nothing in that rock-slide scenario. and with dropping the diamonds out of an airplane into a dirty little shack village in the middle of nowhere. 1 the majority of those diamonds would be lost forever in the mud and 2 how the hell are these poverty stricken peeps supposed to have a diamond trader in their network of mates.
Coupling those oversights with the ridiculously superhuman feats of extreme sporting, from taking 100m drops on dirt bikes after half a mountain avalanches behind them to falling of what seems to be at least a 250-god-damn-metre-high waterfall, dudes are built harder than wolverine for gods sake. also their methods defy rational though but yet they manage to pull it off in this movie, i.e jumping off a moving fisherman boat (driving out to sea) into a 100ft wave moving the opposite direction and making it look like 'child's play'.
To sum up, good for a light watch if you love picking apart impossible feats of extremeness, with pretty bland acting and no 'hot chicks' to distract from it, I would give this a score of 3 buckets of bullshizzz out of 5 and 4 knickerbocker glory moments of averageness out of 10. Apparently the original is much better according to a ginger dread-lock 'rastafari' next to me, but that remains to be seen.