The 1991 Point Break movie is one of those that is so bad it’s good and has many moments which remain features of pop culture so expectations for a remake were that we would get something similar however, instead of giving us an entertaining movie we get two hours of X-games footage that should have been sponsored by Red Bull.

Starting with a scene which can only be described as a parody of the opening of the movie Cliffhanger we see Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) doing some extreme motor biking when Johnnys best friend Jeff misjudges a jump and falls to his death despite Johnnys best attempts to save him. For some reason this incident motivates Johnny to sign up to become an FBI agent and for his first case he is tasked with investigating some robberies where the criminals seem to be pulling off the heists using various wild stunts. In a moment of genius Johnny realises that these criminals are extreme athletes who are carrying out a series of events called the Ozaki Eight, a set of challenges across the globe which are linked to the power of mother nature. He then decides the best way to catch these criminals it to infiltrate the gang however at the same time it seem that the gang decides to become the worst criminals ever as botched crime after botched crime leads to the interchangeable gang members being killed during each heist.

Edgar Ramirez can act, as he was excellent in the movie Joy, but his Bodhi is a zen chanting guru character who has no depth and seems to swing from caring about everybody to leaving ‘friends’ of his to die, Braceys performance as Johnny Utah is from the Brian Bosworth school of acting and Teresa Palmer is thrown in as eye candy but is given nothing to work with and as for why either Delroy Lindo or Ray Winstone got involved is baffling, I hope that their accountants were happy!

In the end we are left with terrible acting, no chemistry between any of the actors (but I will cut them some slack as the material and script don’t give them much to work with) and a plot which makes no real sense as is it overtaken by stunt after stunt that detracts from any chance the movie has to develop characters outside of their ‘Radical Dude’ take on life, so what we get is a big stinking pile of crap.

While the scenery looks spectacular and the extreme acts themselves look great, you can see this kind of thing anytime on the internet so whoever decided that they could pad this movie out to two hours without adding a decent plot or premise needs their head examined.

DJ Speaks Rating: 3.5 Out Of 10