Point Break (2015)
Johnny suspects that only extreme athletes could steal money and gems from banks so quickly, and he gives in to investigate.
8 August 1980, Freiburg, Germany
18 November 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK
19 February 1957, Hackney, London, England, UK
January 10, 2017
The crew are almost impossible to differentiate and barely have their own personalities.
August 31, 2016
Even with the amazing stunt work and excellent cinematography, it's all just going through the motions, dragging us in to the closing credits.
December 29, 2015
A remake that ought not to have been made.
July 19, 2016
The fatal flaw of Point Break is that it's trying to be smarter than it is and the plot becomes convoluted.
December 27, 2015
Nowhere does Mr. Core's film approach the action-movie chops or psychological smarts of Ms. Bigelow's original or, truth be told, benefit from actors displaying the same charm as her stars.
December 31, 2015
Boldly reimagining Kathryn Bigelow's cult favorite as a movie where absolutely nobody seems to be having any fun, the new Point Break drops the original's Zen-like balance of macho mysticism and camp in favor of dour humorlessness.
December 27, 2015
Tedious and overblown - as though the filmmakers were so preoccupied with "updating" the material that they forgot what made it so popular in the first place.
December 29, 2015
Stiff, humorless, tension-free ...
January 09, 2017
While the stunts are impressive, they lack the impact needed to make Point Break memorable - to make it more than just a misguided mimicry. It ends up being just that.
July 10, 2016
Colossally ugly lifestyle porn, managing to make towering Alpine peaks, severely blue Mediterranean waves, and the profound greens of the Mexican jungle all look equally filthy.
January 03, 2016
For all the adrenalizing positives in this reworked "Point Break," inadvertent silliness remains.
August 16, 2016
Core and Wimmer don't just make a bad movie, they make one so terrible it's flabbergasting just how ghastly it actually is.
