When it hits just the right velocity, it's bloody breathtaking. This is where the second coming of Point Break truly excels. Imagine the intense stunts from energy drink commercial or Youtube extreme sport montage while music from Mad Max blares on background. I tried to give it a break and approached it with an open mind but alas it is a poor film. The remake lacks all of this even though it tried to go on a new direction. Although not the greatest actors around, Bigelow got charismatic turns from Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze and sturdy support from Gary Busey as Reeves FBI boss. 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. The colour grading is awful making the film look cheap despite the international locations. The film then becomes boring and after a while even the action scenes just get duller.

Utah infiltrates the gang which is led by Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez.) In its own right the film starts brightly enough with plenty of CGI enhanced action but later on the film actually comes to a stop in the non action sequences when the characters just talk. Utah believes that the group are taking part in the Ozaki 8, eight spiritually extreme sport challenges that coincide with the daring robberies. His boss Hall (Delroy Lindo) sends him to investigate a series of elaborate heists from a gang who behave like Robin Hood robbers. 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. Point Break was rebooted in 2001, it was called The Fast and the Furious where the surfing was replaced by street car racing. This modern update boasts a handful of genuinely fantastic action sequences, yet they're not enough to warrant a recommendation in what is otherwise a limp and incoherent thriller. The same can't be said for low-budget-Chris-Hemsworth hunk Luke Bracey though, who is so wooden as Johnny Utah he makes Keanu Reeves look like Daniel Day Lewis. Replacing the eternally cool Patrick Swayze was always going to be tough, however Edgar Ramirez does a solid job as charismatic eco-warrior Bohdi. Wimmer's dialogue attempts to be philosophical and Zen-like, but with clichéd stinkers like 'the only law is gravity' and 'everyone dies, it's just a matter of how', it's nothing short of unintentionally hilarious. Stemming from Kurt Wimmer's truly awful screenplay, every second not spent traversing a mountainside, soaring through the air or surfing a mammoth wave is cringe worthy and/or yawn inducing. Yet the impact of these daredevil stunts is wasted on a film that fails on almost every other level. Constructed with an alarming amount of real footage and physical stunt work, the numerous action set pieces are rather impressive a high octane wing-suit gliding scene and the tension-building rock climbing finale topping the list. A Gen Z update to Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 cult classic, this remake is essentially an episode of Fast and Furious in which the vehicular exploits have been replaced with an assortment of extreme sports sequences.

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