Point Break (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Ericson Core
	Actors: Edgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone (The Departed, Beowulf)
	Country: CN, D, USA, CDN, I, A
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 22.04.2019, in-flight entertainment system, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: Former Extreme Athlete now fresh FBI recruit, Johnny Utah (Bracey) has ideas on how to stop a gang of thieves that escape every heist in a spectacular manner.
Review: This is a remake of the 1991 classic Point Break with Keanu Reeves against Patrick Swayze, and what a useless remake. It is mostly centered on Action that has been upgraded to fit the modern audience who has seen it all on YouTube: instead of the movie climax, surfing giant waves is now just an "ordeal" the team of thieves go through to pursue their goal. To top that, we get to see extreme surfboarding, 1000-meter mountain free climbing, wing-suit, ... And our hero who was played by Keanu Reeves as a promising football player recognized by one guy in the movie (This is Johnny Utah!), is now known to everybody and can do all the stunts as well as the other guys. Even his love affair has been upgraded to modern standards. When I see all that I sometimes miss the simplicity of the 90's movies. I found the escalation in Action compared to the original not to bring anything. Same for the scale that goes from the L.A. area to all across the globe. It is by the way incredible how the world seems small to those guys who always manage to bump into each other. The view of the world is also very America-centric, like this entrance to the Paris train station that looks like an extremely dangerous no-go zone. The main actor may act a little like Keanu Reeves and some of the key scenes of the original are present as a wink to the fans of the classic (the quickly abandoned masks, the shooting in the air while going Ahhhhh! parodied in La Cité de la peur and Hot Fuzz, the ending), the story is so badly told and shown that none of the events on screen made any impression on me. So much that when the ending comes and was in the original movie the completion of the two character's arc, in this one it falls completely flat in spite of a tentatively extraordinary setting, a bit like "Hey OK do what you want I don't care". A mirror of what the movie makers thought of their audience and of the original movie?
Rating: 1 /10