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A high-rise robbery is committed on dirt bikes, the robbers wearing helmets with the faces of Obama and other recent presidents on them (after which the robbers crash through the windows and parachute to the ground, because yes, it's that kind of movie). While the 2015 film initially seems to loosely share a premise and positions itself to go a different way, it aggressively references the previous film in the most superficial manner possible.
It's only fair to make direct comparisons between the two films because Core and co seemed so determined to do so. Where Patrick Swayze's Bodhi in the 1991 film sought to set an example of resistance to society, albeit in a corny way, Edgar Ramirez's take on the character is laconically trying to literally save the planet with extreme sports and robberies. It is self-serious at all times, espousing a strange GoPro-era extreme sports spirituality that contradicts itself as it writes checks it can't cash. This new Point Break, helmed by Ericson Core, cinematographer on the original Fast & Furious, can't even manage that. It acknowledged its ridiculousness via every character on the side of "law and order," while still treating the material with respect. The original Point Break's premise wasn't smart - an FBI agent learns to surf in order to discover the identity of a team of bank robbers operating in Los Angeles - but it was self-aware. This makes sense, because Johnny is himself a former extreme sports athlete who quit that world after a completely preventable and agonizingly stupid personal tragedy to join an FBI that was, apparently, totally cool with a legendarily irresponsible late 20-something as an applicant.
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The plot has a similar arc to the original - an FBI agent named Johnny (Luke Bracey) infiltrates a tight-knit group of extreme sports athletes on a hunch that they're responsible for a series of daring, global, public robberies. We'll stop there with the mitigation, though, because Point Break is a disaster.
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Point Break wasn't primed for re-mining, exactly, but the movie has found a recent second life in Rocky Horror-style theatre screenings and post-ironic appreciation in movies like Hot Fuzz, so it isn't exactly surprising that a remake is here. Even last year's reboot of Robocop wasn't completely without worth, offering some fairly pointed allegory toward combat wounded and post traumatic stress. Zack Snyder, love him or hate him, took one of the most beloved horror movies of all time and made something fierce and distinctive with Dawn of the Dead. Some of the best genre movies of all time have been remakes - Carpenter's take on The Thing is rightfully considered a classic, as is Cronenberg's reimagining of The Fly. It's worth starting off by saying that Point Break (2015) didn't need to work especially hard to justify its existence, at least with me.ĭespite the internet hand-wringing, remakes do not have to be bad.
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