POINT BREAK ends up the most boring action film of 2015.Īlso, Free logline submissions. Open endings are more suited to artsy films which POINT BREAK definitely isn’t. The film sags after the first 15 minutes and picks up just a little towards the end. Still, POINT BREAK is far from being a satisfying action flick. However, being a Chinese and German co-production, it opened elsewhere a week before North America grossing a remarkable $50 million, which helps the poor domestic numbers. POINT BREAK which costs close to $100 million only made $10 million domestic the first weekend. Utah somehow manages to figure out all the ordeals Bodhi has completed, something hardly believable. He ends up completing seven with the last one left in limbo. The eight ordeals that Bodhi seeks make little sense. But the action and fight sequences lack any excitement. The rock climbing, surfing and motorbike segments are well shot. The film contains some good scenes involving extreme sports. Edgar Ramirez (an up and coming star, his last film JOY), who plays bad guy Bodhi, cannot help much either. Utah takes the risks and fights the bad guys but his boss keeps complaining and giving Utah a hard time. Delroy Lindo playing Utah’s boss fairs worse. With his blond hair and chiseled body, he looks like a model in many scenes with his perfect blond hair flung across his face. Newcomer Luke Bracey delivers a weak performance. Deep undercover, and with his life in danger, he strives to prove these athletes are the architects of the mind-boggling crimes that are devastating the world’s financial markets. He engages in this quest as redemption after losing his brother in an extreme sport accident. The story of the new POINT BREAK involves a young FBI agent, Utah (Luke Bracey) infiltrating a team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. They do the big surf in the last climatic scene but engage too, in other sports such as snowboarding, rock climbing and wingsuit flying. The difference in the new POINT BREAK is a series of robberies done by not surfers but extreme sport specialists. Bigelow’s film involves a FBI agent going undercover to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers disguising themselves as surfers. A point break is formed when a swell moves around the land almost at a right angle to the beach and a break which begins near the point gradually progresses along the wave. The surfing definition of POINT BREAK refers to the type of long-lasting wave found off a coast with a headland or point. Director Ericson Core has tough shoes to fill. Bigelow is a female director able to create big hits with strong male content action films like THE HURT LOCKER, ZERO DARK THIRTY, STRANGE DAYS and my favourite and her first film, NEAR DARK. POINT BREAK is a remake of the Kathryn Bigelow 1991 hit film starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. POINT BREAK (USA/China/Germany 2015) *1/2 Deadlines to Submit your Screenplay, Novel, Story, or Poem to the festival:
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