Point Break

Actors: Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Delroy Lindo, Ray Winstone

Rating: 7 out of 10, A remake of the classic Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze movie of the early 1990s. While we still had FBI agent Johnny Utah versus the spiritual Bodhi, the plot (what there was of it) is completely different. The best reason to go see this movie on the big screen are the stunts, mainly involving extreme sports. I’m a pretty jaded movie goer but I was genuinely gasping as some of the views, especially during the surfing, wingsuit, snowboarding, and cliff climbing (see what I mean). Given all the excitement that is expertly translated to the screen it was sad to see the characters lack the texture of the original. Pretty sad to say to an actor – “You’re no Keanu Reeves”, but I’ve always said Reeves was better than he ever receives credit for. The bromance that’s central to the plot lines in both movies is never exploited and both Teresa Palmer and Ray Winstone are criminally underused. Still, go see this movie on the big screen for the epic camera shots I described above.

MVP: Teresa Palmer as Sansara, only real person in the  cast