Peter Bradshaw 

Point Break review – nature calls in this fantastically pointless remake

Kathyn Bigelow’s cult action movie is given a lifeless reboot as Luke Bracey goes deep undercover in a world of bikes, bank robberies and bad CGI
  
  

Édgar Ramírez
Natural disaster … Édgar Ramírez on his humourless Zen mission. Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros

Hey: what if we could turn all those YouTube hits on extreme sports action into box office cash? What if we did a new version of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action movie about a bank-robbing surfer gang, widened it to include loads of other extreme sports and made it pompously eco-conscious? These are the questions that evidently triggered this fantastically pointless remake, stuffed with humourless and self-important machismo. Luke Bracey is Zoolanderishly good-looking, sporting plenty of transfer-tattoos and as supple and expressive as a surfboard. He plays Utah, the extreme-sports fanatic turned undercover FBI agent who infiltrates a super-cool crew of extreme-sportsy people who rob stuff and then ride their bikes off the top of skyscrapers and pull the ripcords on their parachutes. They steal money to give to the poor (sort of) but are basically on a Zen mission to do all this radical show-off stuff as a tribute to capital-N Nature. Sheesh, can’t they just organise a barn dance in aid of the RSPB? Édgar Ramírez plays the gang’s preening leader, motivating them to do super-dangerous stuff, the primary danger in some cases being that the digital effects are visible.

Watch the official trailer for Point Break.
 

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