While the original film had some cheese and humour to go with its action flair, here the film is giving a makeover and extreme sports revamp and to be bluntly honest, this remake is pretty lifeless in its execution. After all Kathryn Bigelow’s version of the tale has reached a fine status after the original Point Break‘s release back in 1991 about an out of his depth rookie cop going undercover to befriend a group that he comes to believe are a group of robbers known as the Ex-Presidents. ![]() I’ll admit that even when it was originally announced, a Point Break seemed like a mind boggling concept to take on. After predicting where the next attempt will be, Utah is sent undercover to France and strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world’s financial markets. Utah does some digging and believes that the heists are done by the same group, who are attempting to complete the Osaki 8, a list of extreme ordeals to honour the forces of nature. Another heist happens over Mexico in the air sometime later where the criminals unload millions of dollar bills, vanishing without a trace. ![]() Point Break us following former extreme sports athlete turned FBI agent candidate Johnny Utah, attending a briefing on a skyscraper heist where the criminal group steal the diamonds and escape by parachute. STARRING: Luke Bracey, Édgar Ramírez, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer, Matias Varela, Clemens Schick, Tobias Santelmann, Max Thieriot, Nikolai Kinski, Bojesse Christopher, James Le Gros and Delroy LindoĪ young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists.
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