Point Break

Point Break

Rating 3 out of 10

The preview for this movie pushes all the testosterone buttons to get male bottoms in seats.  Riding hundred foot waves. Racing an avalanche of rocks on a motorcycle.  Skydiving after stealing large pallets of money.  What more do you need?  A plot that makes a nickels worth of sense would be great.

This is supposed to be a remake of the 1991 Point Break movie with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves.  They problem is besides the title and character names this could have been called a remake of Top Gun.  It's very different from the first one.

In this movie after a couple X-Games style robberies FBI agent in training Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) figures out this group is trying to complete the Miyagi Eight or was it knock of the Nakatomi Tower?  Doesn't matter.  Utah is promoted to temporary FBI agent and goes undercover to track down Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez) and his gang of thrill seeking criminals.

Utah goes through a fight club, riding huge waves, flying in those flying squirrel suit things, ect. trying to catch the guys in the act.  They take Utah under their wings and explain that an Asian master figured out if you can complete a certain eight adrenaline filled activities (skydive, ride a huge wave, snowboard down the side of a mountain, climb another mountain with no ropes, etc) while giving back to the planet they can reach the ultimate nirvana.

While the story is complete nonsense the visuals are quite good.  The acting by mostly unknown is okay.  Did I mention the visuals are quite good?  It's worth renting for those visuals only leave the volume down on the tv.