![]() After his best pal meets tragedy in a motocross stunt, Utah (real name: John Brigham) gets his GED, graduates college and law school, and attends the FBI Academy. When we meet Johnny Utah 2.0, he’s a cocky poly-athlete with a sports-drink sponsor backing him. This remake offers nothing but the absurdity, along with a handful of impressive stunt sequences that are both its reason for being and a complete distraction from what little story is happening here.ĭirector Ericson Core (“Invincible”) and writer Kurt Wimmer (whose previous remake duties include “Total Recall” and “The Thomas Crown Affair”) clearly want to up the ante on the action, but they make almost no effort to incorporate these stirring sequences into the rest of the movie.Īlso Read: 'Daddy's Home' Laughs Way to $1.2 Million in Christmas Eve Previews The first “Point Break” was absurd and hyper-macho, but the director committed to the story enough to make it, at the very least, vibrantly watchable. Generally speaking, this new movie seems to exist only to make Bigelow’s silly surf caper seem meaningful by comparison. The joke has gone too far in the new “Point Break” remake, with Utah being played by Luke Bracey (“The Best of Me”), giving a performance so utterly blank that future stage spoofs will need to cast a broom or a set of andirons in the role to duplicate what’s happening on screen here.Īlso Read: 'Point Break' LA Press Screenings Canceled by Warner Bros. ![]() theatrical producers turned Kathryn Bigelow‘s campy 1991 action melodrama “Point Break” into a stage show, one of the play’s most successful gags was recruiting an audience member into the role of FBI agent Johnny Utah, with the idea that a non-actor’s cold reading of dialogue would approximate Keanu Reeves‘ legendary wooden Zen in the original. ![]()
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