2015 · action · adventure · crime
Point Break
Directed by Ericson Core1h 54m2015
A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
Our read: Point Break (2015) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · adventure · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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How Point Break feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want extreme-sports spectacle and bro-energy over coherent plotting.”
Skip it tonight — Remake whiplash, physics-defying stunts, or soulless action will irritate you.
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