This new 'Point Break' seemed like it was created as a way to inject a slim narrative into an extreme sports video montage. A realization that remakes aren't instant moneymakers. While box office numbers shouldn't be used in many cases in proving whether a film is good or bad, here it creates a startling realization. It barely made over half and that's without adjusting for any inflation. The 2015 'Point Break' failed to even reach the box office numbers of the original. There's little in the way of interest here, as audiences attested to. Someone that can engage the audience, but also exude that unattainable coolness Swayze had. Perhaps this remake would play better with someone like Chris Hemsworth as Bodhi. Once Utah predictably infiltrates Bodhi's team the sequences play out exactly like we think they will. Here Bracey, and Edgar Ramirez (who plays Bodhi) are wooden stand-ins. The biggest problem is that none of the characters have any charisma, which at least could be said for Reeves and Swayze in the original. Here the high-octane scenes of base jumping, motocross racing, free climbing, free diving, and surfing monstrous waves seem more like commercials for GoPro cameras than a coherent, engaging cinematic narrative. Their international robberies are unusual because – surprise, surprise – they're using extreme sports techniques to pull them off. Luckily Utah comes into the FBI at the same time a team of well-organized criminals are pulling off elaborate heists. He's given up the adrenaline junkie lifestyle and is now gunning for a suit and tie job with the feds. Now, in order to atone for his past – or something – Utah joins up with the FBI. Here Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) is an ex-motocross star who blames himself for the death of his friend and teammate. Then along comes a reboot of it, starring a range of semi-known and unknown faces following along the same plot points. It's a scene made all the more memorable by being spoofed in Edgar Wright's ' Hot Fuzz.' And that's about the extent to which 'Point Break' should be remembered. It has its memorable moments, chief among them being the moment when Keanu's character Johnny Utah shoots his gun into the air while yelling, because he can't bring himself to shoot his new criminal friend Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Sure, the original 'Point Break' has its fans. With Hollywood entrenched in its rebooting, rehashing, remaking ways, it was only a matter of time until they double-backed on kind-of-popular titles and started redoing them. I can't fathom a reason why Kathryn Bigelow's action drama ' Point Break' was rebooted.
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