Point Break Trailer: The Only Law That Matters is Don’t Remake the Classics

Woah, they totally just ripped off the first Fast and the Furious movie. Obviously I’m joking, but it does make you wonder how much bigger and how much more extreme the remake of The Fast and the Furious will be when it arrives in 10 years. The original Point Break just involved surfing and simple skydiving, hardly extreme by today’s adrenaline addicts’ standards. With this remake, we get complex skydiving robberies, rock climbing, wingsuit BASE jumping, snowboarding and I think there’s some surfing in there just for old time’s sake.

Also, here the robberies are much, much bigger, yet the extreme-athlete robbers are more Merry Men, liberating cash and gold for the people, with Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez in the Patrick Swayze role) their Robin Hood. Luke Bracey plays the part of Johnny Utah (originally Keanu Reeves), an FBI agent who infiltrates the gang, Ray Winstone is his boss, taking over for Gary Busey, and Teresa Palmer is the new Lori Petty, Clemens Schick the new James Legros and Matias Varela is the new Grommet, originally played by Bojesse Christopher.

It would seem they went bigger in every way but the cast and the filmmaking talent. Interestingly enough, they got Ericson Core, the cinematographer who shot the first Fast and the Furious, to direct this remake. Kurt Wimmer, who also penned another recent remake of an early ’90s favorite, Total Recall, is the screenwriter this time around. There’s not much chance of it being great, but I don’t think the original is all that special, either. This one will be just fine for its thrill-seeking audience.

I’d love to take this opportunity, though, to recommend an actually great movie for those interested in extreme sport stuff like what you see in the trailer. Sunshine Superman is an exciting, cinematic documentary about the dawn of BASE jumping and its founder, Carl Boenish, and it’s out right now. Check out that film’s trailer below and see it if and when you can.

Point Break: The Remake opens on December 25th.

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