When Keanu Reeves jumps out of a plane with no parachute, it’s because he has to catch Bodhi, no matter the cost, not because he’s undertaking some pseudo-hippie list of stunts. The whole Ozaki 8 setup is painfully artificial and the stunts, while visually fantastic in both what’s happening and the environment they are occuring in, lack the visceralness of the original.
The plot is an afterthought and exists only to get everyone to the next big extreme sports stunt sequence and the plot actually feels like it stops halfway through for two big sequences that exists only to be big stunts. He recognizes the pattern of the heists and infiltrates the group to get enough evidence to tie them to the crimes and stop them. The new Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) is a former motocross rider who quit after a tragic accident and became an FBI agent. The “heists” part of their plan is to “give back to the Earth” which they must do after taking from the Earth during their stunts.
POINT BREAK MOVIE 2015 SERIES
Instead of a group of surfers who fund their exploits by robbing banks, the new Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez) and his crew are attempting the “Ozaki 8”, a series of extreme sports challenges that are part of a ridiculous philosophy that somehow includes environmentalism and achieving nirvana. Point Break 2015 does what a lot of terrible remakes does and takes the simple but effective story of the original and makes it overly complicated in attempt to make it more palatable to the “modern audience”. Point Break, the original, is one of our favorite classic action movies here at Everything Action, with it’s one of a kind triumvirate of Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey and Patrick Swayze, cheesy but fun zen bullshit and memorable action sequences that, in some cases, have never been topped. The new remake has none of those qualities and is aggressively stupid in all the worst ways.
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