![]() ![]() I’ll be straight with you - I’m likely in the minority, but I enjoyed this. The fact that filmmaker Core served as cinematographer on The Fast and the Furious really seems to cement his intentions of nabbing that franchise’s action hungry fans, serving something familiar, while attempting to present different, daring stunts. (And yes, he’s a person, not a new mobile phone). ![]() The 2015 Point Break takes its cues from two Vin Diesel vehicles (excuse the pun) in its (poor) attempt to recreate the ‘family’ style team and loyalty challenges of The Fast and the Furious, with the extreme sports action of the terribly underrated xXx (2002) - director/cinematographer Ericson Core, Invincible (2006), is far more successful at the latter. That film grew into a successful, over-the-top, action franchise with the most recent hit entry being Furious 7 (2015). See, the 1991 film inspired the basic outline of another hit a decade after - The Fast and the Furious (2001), starring the late Paul Walker, The Skulls (2000), and Vin Diesel, Pitch Black (2000), replacing surfing with street racing and bank robberies with truck heists. It’s really intriguing that the new Point Break represents a kind of closing of a circle that began with the original. ‘I found him on eHarmony, we got lots in common … ’ After being overcome by a behemoth wave, Utah is rescued by Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez), who introduces him to an off-the-grid world of parties and risk, with Bodhi becoming Utah’s key suspect.Īs Johnny Utah becomes romantically engaged with free-spirit Samsara Dietz (Teresa Palmer) and involved with Bodhi’s ideology and world of superlative balance, tensions rise as his loyalties are tested as much as his physical endurance. Utah’s FBI senior, Instructor Hall (Delroy Lindo) takes a chance on Utah’s theory and sends him undercover to France with the aid of field agent Angelo Pappas (Ray Winstone) as Utah believes that next, the crooks will attempt a stunt on a rare sea wave phenomenon. Utah researches and believes there’s a link - it’s the same team attempting eight extreme ordeals called ‘The Ozaki Eight’ - named after Ono Ozaki, an eco-warrior who challenged the extreme sports world with a series of eight trials that honor the forces of nature. Seven years later, Utah, now a fresh FBI candidate, sits on a briefing where he learns of two exceedingly dangerous heists - one involving motorbikes in a skyscraper, another, skydiving from a plane. After losing a friend in a perilous motorbike trek, Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) leaves the world of extreme sports. ![]()
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