Before The Matrix (1999), there was Speed (1994), and before that, there was Point Break (1991), an action flick which made a star out of Keanu Reeves. Patrick Swayze was also in the movie. There is even a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, named Point Break, after the movie, featuring surfboards, and the Bodhi Burger is on the menu. In 2015, a reboot was released. Today’s review is about the reboot. I haven’t seen the original Point Break in ages. And I have no plans to see it again anytime soon.
The reboot starts out with outdoor enthusiast Johnny Utah injuring himself while biking on a steep ridge. Then fast forward seven years later, Utah is a candidate for the FBI, when he recognizes a pattern involving pirates who escape by parachute. They are trying to complete the Ozaki 8; a teaching of doing eight extreme ordeals to honor the forces of nature. These thieves can’t be all that bad. Sure they took a ton of cash, but they gave it to the poor, as if they are modern day Robin Hoods.
Utah intercepted this team of four robbers in France where they were attempting a rare sea wave phenomenon. Utah finally confronts Bodhi and the other thugs, and wants to join their club. To do so, he must have a good old street fight. Utah passes the initiation, and the next challenge is flying through the Swiss Alps in wingsuits. The next day, the team climbs the snowy peaks then descend on snowboards. One of the bandits doesn’t make it out of this one alive.
Then it’s onto the next heist, where Utah blows his cover, there’s a big fire fight, where all but one of the crooks get away. A couple of the feds are taken down as well. Utah runs into the remaining two burglars while they are rock climbing by a waterfall. This time, one more kleptomaniac dies, and Bodhi is the last remaining thief. Fast forward again, seventeen months later; Utah confronts Bodhi while reattempting the wave challenge. Bodhi doesn’t make it and Utah goes home.
I have friends who refuse to see this movie because of the fact it’s a reboot of an original. They don’t know what they’re missing. Point Break (2015) was well done, it’s well written, and well played, it’s an updated version for a younger generation. It’s not just about surfing as was the original, this time there is street fighting, wing suit gliding, snowboarding, rock climbing, plus a cameo by EDM recording artist Steve Aoki. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes action movies and the natural elements. You won’t be disappointed.
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