Point Break

Plot synopsis:
Extreme poly-athlete Johnny Utah and his friend Jeff attempts a stunt traversing a steep ridge peak line, ending it by leaping onto a lone stone column. Jeff over speeds his bike and falls. Seven years later Utah is a FBI Agent candidate. He attends a briefing about a skyscraper heist where the criminals parachute down their escape. Another heist happens where the criminals unload Dollar bills mid-air over Mexico then simply disappear. Utahs research concludes that they were done by the same men, who at the same time attempt to complete the Ozaki 8; a teaching of doing eight extreme ordeals to honor the forces of nature. They already cleared three, and Utah predicts theyll attempt the fourth on a rare sea wave phenomenon in France. After presenting his analysis, Utah gets sent undercover to France under a field agent Pappas. They reach the place and Utah gets help from others to surf the tall tube wave.But as he goes in theres already another surfer in the wave, leaving Utah with unstable wave. Utah gets sucked into the wave and faints but the other surfer bails and rescues Utah. He wakes aboard a yacht with the other surfer Bodhi and his team Roach, Chowder, and Grommet. They leave him to enjoy the party and he gets acquainted with a girl Samsara. The next day Utah finds the men in an abandoned Paris train station after he overhears them about the location. Bodhi gives him an initiation fight and soon hes in the circle. They travel to the Alps for the next ordeal, wingsuit flying through the cliffs. The four succeed in their attempt then have some time together with Samsara. The next day they climb the snow peaks for the sixth ordeal, snowboarding through steep wall of snow. They reach their spot but Utah decides to extend his line so the others follow him. But Chowder slips and falls to his death. Utah gets depressed about it. After a party Samsara explains about her and Bodhi.Next they travel to a gold mine where Bodhi detonates some explosives Grommet and Roach planted. After blowing his cover, Utah chases Bodhi, managing to trip his bike. But Bodhi escapes as Utah cant stand up after the crash. The FBI freezes Bodhis sponsors assets so Bodhi plans to rob a nearby Italian bank on a mountain top. Utah and the police intercept the group, resulting in a crossfire that kills Roach. As the group flees, Utah chases and shoots one of them but it turns out to be Samsara. Utah finds the next ordeal location, solo rock climbing with no safety besides a waterfall. he finds Bodhi and Grommet and chases them on the climb, but Grommet cramps and falters, falling to his death. Utah catches up to Bodhi but he leaps down the waterfall, completing the last ordeal. But Bodhi has to redo the fourth ordeal as he bailed out on the wave. 17 months later Utah finds him in the Pacific facing another giant wave. But ultimately Utah lets Bodhi go and attempt it. The wave engulfs Bodhi and Utah comes back home.

Tags: tragedy, revenge, neo noir, philosophical, murder

Review:
If you like those 3 or 5 minute GoPro or Red Bull videos of people doing extreme sports then you will certainly like most of the movie as a lot of it is exactly that - and to be sure, those moments were pretty cool to watch and very well done.
Unfortunately, in between all of those moments is a pretty boring plot line with characters that you never really care about.If you like mindless action (nothing wrong with that) then you will probably like this movie - although most of the "action" is extreme sports, not really guns.Apparently I have to write at least ten lines of text, but honestly there isn't much more to say about the movie!.
Unfortunately, the narrative is not only poor, it nearly sabotages the movie like a broken parachute.Story revolves around Utah (Luke Bracey), an FBI trainee as he investigates a series of heists and their connection to a group of athletes led by Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez).
There's a romance subplot, but this is mainly to show the attractive Teresa Palmer as eye candy for several short scenes.The movie is actually better when they just show the crazy sequences instead of forcing its lackluster story.
It's miles beyond what typical action flick could offer, but sadly it's repeatedly interrupted by the shoddy story, which feels like an excuse to fly across the globe to do random cool tricks.If viewed only on the grand mix of cinematography and choreography, Point Break is exquisite, this would have been a great documentary of extreme sport.
The original Point Break was mostly known for its memorable bromance between Utah and Bodhi and some of its greatest action scenes ever put to film.
The characters are bland, the plot makes no sense and every moment it tries to replicate with the original is just painfully forced for the sake of what they believe it's called "fan service." Therefore, there isn't much reason for Point Break (2015) to exist.So Point Break is now about the stunts, but just like most action movies today, it also had to strip away personality.
And the movie wouldn't be any different if Teresa Palmer's role was written off.And Point Break (2015) is just another needless remake.
In Point Break, a rookie FBI agent tracks down a group of extreme athletes who go around the world carrying out crimes in unusual and life-threatening ways; they plan to do a series of near- impossible stunts called the Ozaki 8 in hopes of reaching spiritual enlightenment.
At least, that was the plot for about ten minutes before the movie devolves into a series of party scenes and surprisingly dull extreme sports clips that could have been easily viewed on YouTube, all set to irritating club music.
The unbearable dialog, muddled plot and dull characters makes this Point Break remake utterly pointless.
Because of that, his Point Break" is more condensed around crass plot, rather than around extreme sports.Such things like crazy and dangerous stunts on surfboards and snowboards, motocross rides and jumps from planes have been reduced to minimum.
They look more like the sect of insane ecologists, rather than a division of athletes.New version of Point Break" ignores every kind of basic elements of good movie: well-written plot, interesting characters and most of all a dynamic action.
Sometimes mere words cannot describe something adequately, and in the case of 2015's utterly pointless and mind dumbing/daft Point Break remake there are quite literally no words I can summon from the shelves of my undoubtedly mediocre storage system of the English language to pinpoint just how idiotic, stupid and unintentionally hilarious this film is.Making Kathryn Bigalow's well-liked 1991 original seem like a work of Shakespeare, Ericson Core's update of the relatively simple story of fun-loving FBI agent Johnny Utah infiltrating a group of extreme sports enthusiasts that happen to be criminals is here turned into some type of "giving back to nature" eco conscious athletes that just happen to like messing with the rich corporations ruining mother nature (don't even try to understand the Osaki 8 that keeps popping up here) and Johnny Utah is turned into a clearly Australian, motocross riding, badly tattooed (seriously how many tattooed people can be in one movie?) agent that gets to to be involved in one of the most hilarious on screen deaths in some time (in the film's opening 5 minutes!) and somehow possesses even less charisma than Keanu Reeves (yes, the unthinkable has occurred).
But if you think lame motocross related deaths and dodgy eco warriors are the worst of this films problems, then think again.Director Core and his team seemingly sat down at a table and in the space of 30 or so minutes designed a serious of supposedly breathtaking stunts that span the globe and while they look great in a location sense, the actual transpiring of events are so downright unbelievable that any sense of fun or excitement is taken away by the fact it's just too daft to care.From downhill snowboarding, random unnecessarily dangerous rock climbing, perfectly used wing suit fly byes, an exploding rock strewn mountain face and perhaps worst of all, a reimaging of the wave clad finale of the original, Point Break seems intent on becoming some type of hybrid of Fast and the Furious but forgets to make sure that the occurrences happening here are indeed fun and frenetic, rather than overdone and frequently unengaging.At the end of the day one could go on and one about the many failures of Point Break but none of it comes as a surprise, as from the moment this remake was announced and then from the very first glimpses of the films atrocious trailer no one expected this waste of $100 million dollars plus to be anything more than a disposable piece of Hollywood trash.
The original point break was a solid B rated movie making this remake at best an F.
Point Break was rebooted in 2001, it was called The Fast and the Furious where the surfing was replaced by street car racing.This remake sees extreme sports athlete Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) who after losing a friend when a motocross stunt goes wrong goes on to become a FBI agent some years later.
The colour grading is awful making the film look cheap despite the international locations.The original Point Break directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who would go on to become the first female Oscar winning director found a zeitgeist of Generation X sports action thriller with well staged action sequences.
...of a pointless original.Surfing criminals?Who the hell let this turkey escape?The original was silly enough.Anyone who ever surfed would know that most surfers don't own an alarm clock or even possess the sort of intellect required to shoplift a Mars bar, let alone orchestrate a bank heist.Hollywood keeps throwing out crap like this to each unsuspecting new generation (every 25 years) and it gets dumber and dumber.Want to watch a surfing movie?
Overall this film is definitely not worth a watch and go and watch the original point break because it is so good..
The actors and director of this re-make of a classic action film must have gone home after making it singing Dierks Bentley's song "What Was I Thinking?" ...It is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT to anyone who is a fan of the original.But like most classic movie re-makes, the entire team hired to make this flick completely screwed it up.
I'm glad Patrick Swayze wasn't alive to see this pos re-make.For one, the plot doesn't even come close to the original - just a few sad, lame-ass attempts to link it to the original classic 1991 film in order to call the movie by the same name, such as stealing and inserting scenes like: - re-using all the main character's names - Johnny shooting into the sky when he fails to kill Bodhi - Bodhi escaping and having to die by a monster-wave at the end.Ray Winstone's talent is completely wasted playing Pappas, and is probably embarrassed his name is now associated with this mess....
there is so many more example of this it is ridiculous.So other than calling this flick by the same name of the original classic, and inserting these stolen scenes and names from the original, the movie is something, but it isn't POINT BREAK.In the end, it's just an excuse for some self-serving, over-rated, uber-tattooed actors to get a woody playing extreme-sport idiots, and some adrenaline-junky film makers to get their rocks off filming stupid stunts in exotic locations.If your an extreme sports fanatic and don't give a crap about plots, themes, or just a decent action flick, then grab your favorite power-bar and energy-drink and watch it while downing your steroids.But is you are a true fan of the original Swayze-Reeves 1991 classic POINT BREAK, and were hoping this might be even half the movie the original, you will very, very disappointed.The studio execs should have just called this mess NO POINT or GIVE ME A BREAK, because there is absolutely no point in watching this piece of crap excuse for a film..
The original 1991 version of this movie is an absolute classic great acting great story phenomenal cast really well put together this version is none of those things it's really bland and just a weak excuse of showing off extreme sports in a really bad light if you really want to watch a great movie go and watch the original its head and shoulders above this, this is a 3 at best even if the original had never been made and this would still be a 3.
The characters are weak and the story is badly written coupled with the weak acting and an over reliance on not very interesting extreme sports this movie was always doomed to fail.
The film also has exceptional cinematography with setting like surfing in the middle of the ocean, Angel falls and the Alps.The story is average but they have something to tell, just listen to the lines and they have some philosophical points and some original ideas.
It's got a lot of action, but everyone who has seen original Point Break is disgusted by this movie.
Characters Utah and Bodhi never bond like in the original movie and it makes the whole experience shallow and meaningless.
​ Going into the Point Break remake I don't think I could have had any lower expectations because I am a massive fan of the original, but I came out of this movie actually quite liking it.
The acting in this movie is average and the story is very predictable and cheesy at times but the stunt scenes!
Unfortunately after a stunt scene comes dialogue which with its bad timing and believability pulled me straight back out of the film, I do honestly think they should have taken the Point Break elements out of this movie and just called it something altogether fresh, then I think I would maybe hold this film a little higher.
But my excitement checked out and went home to catch some well needed z's pretty quickly.The plot is somewhat different to the original, mostly the changes revolve around the bad guys and their reasoning for doing what they are doing, but also around the character Utah, and his background.
I tried removing the 3D effect occasionally - by closing one eye - and it really did look a lot better without it.The biggest change from Kathryn Bigelows modern-classic-original however is the fact that this version doesn't make me care about the characters...at all!
That is from the original that is!', but as this film is so infuriatingly inferior (say that quickly five times) it only makes me a little bit angry, that it didn't even have the guts to stand on its own two legs as a modern day action movie.If you plan on seeing this in the theater, but have never seen the original, Make sure you do see that one as well!
The opening scene was too predictable to have the emotional impact it was going for, but the rest of the film did a good job of taking the core story of the original and using it to showcase some visually impressive stunts and extreme sports.
Despite the similar story and wider array of stunts and extreme sports, this version was able to deliver a more family friendly film than the original.
This movie is way below expectation compared to the original starring Keanu Reeves.There is no point to compare the original , the original was way above in the level of thrill , story and acting.
And then of course there is a rock climbing scene that is still giving me nightmares.The bottom line here is that this Point Break is it's own movie.
The new actors and the insane extreme sport sequences taken together puts it's own shine on what we remember as a great movie, and makes it better..
The film presents a number of impressive extreme sport actions set pieces with glorious parachutes or rock-climbing gear that will certainly excite the audiences but sadly the plot with poor pacing has turned this remake slightly pointless.
So watching this movie with this mindset I can say the locations were impressive and the way the extreme scenes were filmed is amazing.
I write this review only because I saw a whole bunch of negative reviews about POINT BREAK (2015).First of all, it was a visual delight, Edge of the seat, Adventure movie.Yes, the plot isn't very logical, but to me the cinematography coupled with the breath taking adventure sports/stunts made up for the lack of decent plot.I spent a no holds barred, very entertaining 114 mins in Theatre and that's tat.MUST See, especially in 3D for a marvelous experience.
The stunts and location shots were pretty cool, but wasted on a film that desperately needed more substance if it wanted to prove better than the original Point Break.
This "Film" and i use the word extremely loosely should be called Gayed up french Eco warrior/PC nonsensical thing with some totally impossible not doable feats and sporty stuff thrown in, includes are minimal ripped off parts from a really good 1991 film called Point Break starring Patrick Swayze,Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey, i'm guessing so they could create something long enough to call it a film.
But the director was so willing to use the original plot that he didn't even change the names That limited his creativity and ended up been a bad movie instead.
It is a pity because the budget they had was good; it can be seen on the scenarios and cinematography tricks they used.I recommend the audience: to watch the movie, not to expect a good plot as the original one.
For those who like extreme sports this will be an amazing ride, for anyone else, just get your popcorn and enjoy it.The visuals are very nice, the music is on point.Do I believe anything they say in this movie?
Point Break is an action movie that makes its job.
Knowing  that this is REAL stunt work and not special effects is what really  makes this a fun action movie.
I will say that the new version of Point Break tries to  create layers that were not in the original film.
It is a poorly made flick that just crawls on without a point and breaks often too.The only good thing about the movie was the stunt bit.
Sure thing Luke Bracey looked phenomenal with his tattoos and Edgar Ramirez coolly played Bodhi to impart a different outlook to his perversion, but there was nothing they could do to uplift the poor editing and direction of Point Break.Befooled by the trailer that showed rad incessant stunts, the movie doesn't cash in on them properly either.
The visuals and action sequences are actually pretty entertaining but Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze Who were in the original were replaced by two guys that I had never seen or heard of before .if they could have cast actors like Taylor Kitsch, Tom Hardy, Ben Foster, or Emile Hirsh just to name a few it would have made all the difference in the world .
Surfing has been replaced by extreme (to the point of being implausible) sports, the plot is close to non-existent and the characters have no substance.It's pretty much just one long ridiculous-action sequence, with the occasional piece of clumsy, contrived dialogue thrown in.
Now understand where I'm coming from here, if it was a movie released independently of the original I'd probably see it worthy of 4-5 stars however, as soon as you call it Point Break you HAVE TO LIVE UP TO THE ORIGINAL, otherwise this happens – you disappoint on a cataclysmic scale.I must leave now, I have a suicide journey planned to Angel Falls so I can kill myself like that David Guest looking bell end.
Plot - Point Break has an interesting story-line but the story telling is hindered by the acting and the pure focus on action scenes instead of character development.
o, my bad, that's actually the plot for "The Fast And The Furious" It's been years since I saw the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow-directed original "Point Break" starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze and this remake pretty much has similar logline in that Luke Bracey plays an FBI agent infiltrating a team of criminals.
The "Point Break" redeux throws in some great extreme sports scenes in place of much of what made the original film work so well..
Yes, I happen to be a big fan of the original "Point Break", but even judging the 2015 version completely on its own merits, it falls short of what I would consider a quality action movie.
He has to get into extreme sports again when he goes undercover for the FBI to stop a gang of daredevil criminals.The trailer of "Point Break" looks exciting already, but I can say it does not do the film justice at all.