Takes the outline in the original and translates it with an audience that's chugged 15 Monster Energy drinks and stayed up for the week mainlining Dude Perfect videos.
“If a tree falls from the forest with out one puts it on YouTube, made it happen really happen?”
This is definitely an actual brand of dialogue, delivered with total sincerity, from Ericson Core’s remake of Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break. It’s one of the dumb “wisdoms” suggested using a screenplay that’s plagued by bubblegum philosophy. But if you’re OK with the pseudo-Zen sentimentality in the insta-upload message for the reason that statement, then your shallowness in this derivative and unnecessary reboot may not bother you just as much as it did me. The original Point Break wasn’t Shakespeare, the slightest bit. But it wasn't insultingly stupid. This is.
Core’s Point Break essentially takes the outline in the 1991 genre thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, but translates it to have an audience which has chugged 15 Monster Energy drinks and stayed up to get a week mainlining Dude Perfect videos. In the process, Core misunderstands all that was essential to the original film, believing that ramping in the “EXTREME” each and every turn will resulted in a more rewarding experience. It isn’t. It’s exhausting. Remember the exciting skydiving sequence from the original? This time out, you are likely to get large-scale skydiving, surfing and motorcross stunts within the first fifteen minutes! But the skydiving sequence in the first movie mattered because once it arrived, you cared about the characters involved within the stunt. The new Point Break individuals have as much depth as actors in a very Mountain Dew ad.
Right away from the bat, Point Break 2015 produces a fundamental error in putting together Johnny “Utah” (Utah is usually a nickname these times out, making no sense). Keanu Reeves’ version from the character in 1991 would have been a former athlete but a clean-cut and dedicated FBI agent who reluctantly joined several surfers suspected of robbing banks wearing masks of dead Presidents. (The crooks wear similar masks in a single scene with the reboot, and don't again, considering that the remake doesn’t get why that gimmick was important.) When Reeves’ Utah gets pulled into your wake of Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi, it is against exactly what Utah means, creating an internal conflict that transcended the impressive stunts.
Point Break 2015 paints “Utah” (Luke Bracey) being a former extreme-sports addict who recognizes what of Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez) with the exceptional crew simply because behave how he one did. No internal conflict. No stakes inside game. It’s strange, too, how after one criminal mission at the start with the movie, Bodhi and the team of elite athletes stop committing crimes (hence, the possible lack of presidential masks) and also don’t create any conflict that might need the FBI… using wind out on the movie’s sails. We’re playing new versions of Bodhi and Utah, plus the comparisons between the main and the remake – that happen to be inevitable when reviewing this movie – show how wrong this remake is. Swayze’s Bodhi became a charismatic Zen flame drawing Keanu’s moth. Ramirez’s Bodhi belongs more for the tattoo-and-leather Euro-trash sounding extreme-stunt seekers. There’s less appeal – to both him, and towards the movie.
Is Point Break 2015 bigger than the first? Yep. Where Kathryn Bigelow limited her action towards the sleepy beach communities of Southern California (in most cases), Core’s Point Break is usually a global affair which has “Utah” chasing Bodhi towards the far-reaches from the Earth to avoid him from… well, again, he’s probably not committing any crimes, so I’m unsure why the FBI is very hellbent on bringing Bodhi to justice. The people Bodhi’s gang are interchangeable and forgettable. Teresa Palmer incorporates a painfully thankless role since the Mother Hen on the gang, cooking meals for The Boys whenever they complete their missions, and sleeping with “Utah” since the script thinks it requires an emotional conflict. Does bigger mean better? Nope. Because really, the frequency of which does “bigger” equal “better” on the subject of Hollywood remakes?
“Let’s only be here.” That’s another pearl of wisdom spoken by way of a serene criminal in Point Break 2015.
Release date: December 3, 2015 (Indonesia)
Director: Ericson Core
Box office: 131.3 million USD
Budget: 105 million USD
Music composed by: Junkie XL
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