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Point Break
Two surfers are surfing over a big water wave ,with the film's title and credits in front of them.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEricson Core
Screenplay byKurt Wimmer
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEricson Core
Edited by
Music byJunkie XL[2]
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • December 4, 2015 (2015-12-04) (China)
  • December 25, 2015 (2015-12-25) (United States)
Running time
113 minutes[3]
Countries
  • United States
  • China[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$105 million[4][5]
Box office$99.6 million[6]

Point Break is a 2015 3D American action thriller film directed by Ericson Core and written by Kurt Wimmer. An American-Chinese co-production, the film is a remake of the 1991 film of the same name, which starred Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. The film stars Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, and Ray Winstone, and was released in China on December 4, 2015 by DMG Entertainment and in the United States on December 25, 2015 by Warner Bros. Pictures in 3D and RealD 3D.

Plot

Extreme sport athlete Johnny Utah and his friend Jeff are traversing a steep ridgeline on Motorbikes. The run ends with a jump onto a lone stone column, where Jeff overshoots the landing and falls to his death. Seven years later, Utah is an FBI agent candidate. He attends a briefing on a skyscraper heist where the criminals steal diamonds, escaping by parachute. A similar heist happens over Mexico where the criminals unload millions of dollars in bills over Mexico, then disappear into a large cave. Utah's research concludes that they were done by the same men, who are attempting to complete the Ozaki 8, a list of eight extreme ordeals to honor the forces of nature. They have already completed three, and Utah predicts they'll attempt the fourth on a rare sea wave phenomenon in France. After presenting his analysis, Utah is sent undercover to France under a field agent named Pappas. They reach France and Utah gets help from others to surf the tall tube wave.

As he goes in, there's already another surfer in the wave, leaving Utah with an unstable wave. Utah gets sucked into the wave and faints, but the other surfer bails and rescues Utah. He wakes aboard a yacht with the surfer, Bodhi, and his team Roach, Chowder, and Grommet. They leave him to enjoy the party and he gets acquainted with a girl, Samsara. The next day, Utah finds the men in an abandoned Paris train station after he overhears them talk about the location. Bodhi gives him an initiation fight and soon he is in the circle. They travel to the Alps for the next ordeal, wingsuit flying through the cliffs "The Life of Wind". The four succeed in their attempt and spend some time together with Samsara. The next day, they climb the snow peaks for the sixth ordeal, snowboarding through a steep wall of snow. They reach their spot, but Utah decides to extend his line so the others follow him. Chowder slips and falls to his death, and Utah becomes depressed about it.

After a party, Samsara explains that she and Bodhi both knew Ono Ozaki when they were young, that her parents died in an avalanche accident and Ozaki gave her a home after. She explains further that Ozaki actually completed his third ordeal, as was widely believed. He did not die attempting the ordeal, but was actually killed by a whaling ship crashing into his boat while he was trying to save humpback whales. On his boat, a young boy, Bodhi, decided not to tell the truth of his story but to finish what Ozaki started.

Next they travel to a gold mine where Bodhi detonates explosives Grommet and Roach planted. After blowing his cover, Utah chases Bodhi, managing to trip his bike. Bodhi escapes as Utah can not stand up after the crash. The FBI freezes Bodhi's sponsors' assets; Bodhi plans to rob a nearby Italian bank on a mountain top. Utah and the police intercept the group, resulting in a crossfire that kills Roach. As the group flees, Utah chases and shoots one of them, revealed to be Samsara.

Utah finds the location of the next ordeal: solo rock climbing with no safety beside a waterfall. He finds Bodhi and Grommet and chases them on the climb, but Grommet cramps and falters, falling to his death. Utah catches up to Bodhi, but he leaps down the waterfall, completing what would have been the last ordeal; Bodhi has to redo the fourth ordeal as he bailed out on the wave. 17 months later, Utah finds him in the Pacific facing another giant wave. Utah lets Bodhi attempt to surf it, both knowing that he will not come back. The wave engulfs Bodhi and Utah continues his career in the FBI.

Ono Osaki 8

According to the movie character Johnny Utah 'the Osaki 8' is named after Ono Osaki, an eco-warrior who challenged the extreme sports world to a series of eight ordeals that honor the forces of nature. The challenge is to create a perfect line when completing the trials. Although Johnny Utah claims it is a path to enlightenment, Bodhi says that Ono Osaki was more interested in balance than enlightenment and he and the others in his group appear to want to use the teaching for liberating rather than material gain, even though it involves criminal activity.

The Osaki 8 include:

  • Emerging Force
  • Birth of Sky
  • Awakening Earth
  • Life of Water
  • Life of Wind
  • Life of Ice
  • Master of Six Lives
  • Act of Ultimate Trust

Cast

Édgar Ramírez and Luke Bracey portray the two main characters of the film.
A former extreme motocross star and a surfer turned into an "extreme athlete" and eco-warrior who plays a sort of Robin Hood role.[7] Unlike the original film, Utah is not an ex-football player.[7]

Production

Development

A script for the remake had been lying around for years,[7] but it was not until Ericson Core pitched his idea to Warner Bros. that the film actually got off the ground.[7] However, Core's idea for the film was significantly different than the script. His concept was much more of a big tentpole movie, with scenes that defy the laws of physics, like many other films.[7]

In 2011, it was announced that a remake of Point Break was being developed by Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. The screenplay was being written by Kurt Wimmer, screenwriter of the 2012 Total Recall remake. Wimmer co-produced with Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, John Baldecchi, and Chris Taylor.[10] Ericson Core, cinematographer of The Fast and the Furious (2001), directed.[11]

Casting

Luke Bracey portrayed the role previously played by Keanu Reeves.[12][13] Ray Winstone took on the role played by Gary Busey in the original.[14] Gerard Butler was initially in negotiations to play Bodhi, the role Patrick Swayze created, but negotiations fell through.[15] By mid-May 2014, Édgar Ramírez was in talks to play Bodhi, and was later cast.[16]

Filming and stunts

Principal photography commenced on June 26, 2014 in Berlin. Shortly before production began in Berlin, Core got the cast and crew together to watch the original Point Break. The new team did not reach out to the original cast and crew; Bracey did not talk to Reeves, and Core did not reach out to director Kathryn Bigelow, though Ramirez did seek and receive the director's blessing.[4] Shooting took place in a total of 11 countries across four continents, using actual extreme sports stars and stuntmen.[17] Locations includes Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Berlin, France, Mexico, Venezuela, French Polynesia, India and the United States.[18][19] While the original film focused on just a few sports — primarily surfing — and used cranes and other Hollywood trickery to portray them, the new movie eschewed all of that, including green screens, and relied on real life practical stunts.[4] For the numerous stunts performed in the film, Core gather a group of the best snowboarders, free rock climbers, big wave surfers, high-speed motocross riders and wingsuit pilots in the world and filmed them, essentially, as actors.[7]

The surfing scene was shot at Teahupo'o in Tahiti (pictured).

Since surfing was central to the first movie, the filmmakers wanted to include it again, but at a higher level.[17] Core and his team looked all over the world to try to find out where waves were going to hit, and when, before finally settling on Teahupo'o in Tahiti.[4][17] Shooting the scenes proved to be a challenge because enormous, surfable waves are rare and unpredictable. Crew went to Jaws, a surf break in Maui, months before principal photography began on the film.[17] The team had to wait several days in Teahupo'o for the waves the swell.[4] Luckily, enormous swells arrived. The crew ran nine cameras in the water, on cliffs and on helicopters to capture the action in January 2014.[17] Laird Hamilton, a pioneering big-wave surfer, who also played a character in the film, contributed his skills to the shoot.[17] Additionally, Ian Walsh, a surfer from Muai, Billy Kemper, Makua Rothman, and Ahani Tsondru, served as stunt doubles.[20]

The wingsuit flying and BASE jumping sequence was filmed at Walenstadt in Switzerland.
Additional filming also took place in Jungfrau in the Swiss Alps.

The wingsuit flying sequence filmed in Walenstadt, Switzerland required five stuntmen (including the cameraman) flying in formation, while all weaved through narrow mountain passes, one of which is called "The Crack", all at a speed of over 145 miles per hour.[4][21] The production canceled planned flights on a number of days because of poor weather conditions, eventually completing one only after two weeks in August 2014.[4][20] Core brought in Jeb Corliss, a professional sky diver, to help coordinate the scene and handpick wingsuit athletes to perform it.[17] Corliss and his team picked the best wingsuit pilots in the world, who have all made over 17,000 sky dives and have had 20 years of experience, including one thousand BASE jumps and thousands of wingsuit jumps each, to perform the jump.[7] Corliss himself was going to be one of the fliers, but was not able to be, because he was recovering from a knee surgery afer he tore his anterior cruciate ligament prior to the filming, while testing a suit.[22] The five fliers includes two times World Wingsuit League champion and four times Guinness World Records holder Jhonathan Florez (cameraman, who died in July 2015),[22] Red Bull Air Force former manager Jon DeVore (portrayed Utah), who previously worked on the wingsuit sequence for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and served as the aerial coordinator,[7] Mike Swanson (Bodhi), Julian Boulle (Grommet), Noah Bahnson (Roach), and James Boole.[20] DeVore knew that the sequence was going to be difficult to enact, especially in supertight, choreographed formations. Corliss himself was familiar with the place since he made a jump in 2011 from a peak just outside the Swiss town. A video of the jump titled "Grinding the Crack" uploaded to YouTube has been watched over 30 million times.[7]

However, performing such a sequene proved to be very dangerous. If one person crashes with the other, it could lead to the disproportion of the flight pattern and subsequently could result in a fatal death; on average, more than 20 wingsuit pilots die each year due to these extreme stunts.[7] Due to this, safety became a top priority for Core.[21] Prior to shooting, the stuntmen went to the location, and to other locations which were similar, to start training in groups.[7] In order to get comfortable with the wingtip-to-wingtip flights necessary to pull the scene off, the wingsuiters initially jumped from planes, racking up more than 500 jumps over the course of the year leading up to filming. They would fly in tight formations over and over again, simply as a way of getting accustomed to the idea of having someone nearby at all times.[7] The production team also went to Switzerland 12 days prior to shooting to practice.[7]

The jump was made from Hinterrugg Mountain, the highest peak in the Churfirsten range (on the right).

During the shoot, there were ground-based cameras with long lenses, and a helicopter with a gyro-stabilized camera as well. Since Core needed a series of shots to create the sequence, from point of view shots to profile shots of the wingsuiters cruising past the mountain to close-ups – unlike filming GoPro cameras – one of the wingsuiters needed to wear a cinema-quality camera on his head, rather than a GoPro. The task went to Florez, who had never done camera work before. The Red camera used in the flights weighed an astounding 15 pounds, enough to significantly alter the way Florez normally flew.[7] The wingsuiters made over 60 jumps in the course of two weeks to get all the shots.[7][17][23] Corliss called it the most dangerous stunt that has ever been filmed for a movie.[23]

Aiguille de la Grande Sassière in France, where the snowboarding scene was filmed.
Caineville, Utah, where the motorcross scene was filmed.

For the snowboarding scene, which was shot in Aiguille de la Grande Sassière in France, professional snowboarders Xavier de Le Rue and Jeremy Jones,[17] along with Ralph Backstrom and Mike Basich, were hired to play stunt doubles.[23] There were daily avalanche checks during the shoot, and a significant amount of time was spent sitting and waiting for the right conditions to film. For this scene, Core and members of his crew roped down cliffs to record the snowboarders from the best possible angles. At some point, Core had to give Xavier the camera and he had to shoot other people.[17] He admitted that because Rue and Jones were so fast, few could keep up with them.[17] During filming a particular sequence, a Class 4 avalanche was triggered.[23]

Angel Falls in Venezuela, where the free climbing scene was shot. Climbing took place on sites both beside the falls and above the rim.

For the rock climbing sequence, the cast and crew travelled to Angel Falls in Venezuela, where they set up three camps; one base was below the falls; one was on the rim; and one was high on the tepui.[24] The film crew had to land on a small island at the head of the Amazon River that had no vehicles, then move the equipment by motorized canoes to the falls[22] by negotiating with a local general for a helicopter to get them and serveral tons of equipment out.[4] Core hired Linh Nguyen, a longtime Southern California climber and former climbing consultant to a TV sports series, who Core described as his "oldest friend", as the Climbing Unit Supervisor. That site was near an overhanging 100 foot boulder that the longtime climber-rigger Dave Schultz had picked out during scouting, as an ideal site for close-up "studio" climbing shots. Filming also took place on the wall beside the waterfall.[24] Chris Sharma served as a stunt double for Johnny Utah,[23] whereas Teresa Palmer was filmed in a climbing scene separately in the Alps.[24] Dani Andrada of Spain played the stunt double for Bodhi, and climber-filmmaker Mike Call was second-unit cameraman. Peter Croft, a well-known Canadian climber and soloist, was hired as a backup climber and a stunt rigger, and to help lend credibility to the free-soloing scenes. He and Nguyen read the script together, taking notes and suggesting changes in dialogue. Others in the unit were Schultz (head rigger), Aaron Walters, Brooke Sandahl, Alexander Magerl and Ralf Haeger of Germany, Emiliyan Kolevski of Bulgaria, and Alberto Roha and other climbers from Venezuela.[24] For soloing shots, the climbers were tied into thin spectral line that could be digitized out. All bolts used in the filming were removed afterwards.[24]

On several European jumping scenes, Core, who also previously trained as a mountain ranger, would hike up with a small crew and wait hours for safe conditions.[4] Kosove said the movie "was more of an expedition than a production.”[4]

Incidents

Australian surfer Laurie Towner, who was hired as the stunt double for lead character Johnny Utah, broke his jaw and suffered other wounds during stunt surfing in Teahupo'o for the film, in mid-September 2014.[25]

Release

The film was initially slated for an August 7, 2015 release,[16] but on August 12, 2014, Warner Bros. brought the date forward to July 31, 2015.[26] On February 3, 2015, the release date was moved back to December 25, 2015.[27] Warner Bros. is distributing the film in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan and Latin America,[28] and Summit Entertainment (through Lionsgate) is distributing it in other territories, except for China and Germany. DMG Entertainment, which collaborated with Alcon Entertainment to finance and develop the remake, distributes the film in China, where it was released on December 4, 2015.[1][29]

Reception

Box office

As of January 10, 2016, Point Break has grossed $26.7 million in North America and $58.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $85.1 million, against a budget of $105 million.[6]

In the United States and Canada, the film opened on the same day as Daddy's Home, Joy, Concussion, and The Big Short,[30] and earned $4.1 million on its opening day.[31] In its opening weekend, it earned $9.8 million from 2,910 theaters, finishing 8th at the box office, and last among new releases.[32]

Point Break was released across 3,700 screens in China, its first market, on December 4, three weeks prior to its U.S. release.[33] It earned $12.1 million in its opening weekend and $22.7 million in its first full week, fending off local newcomer Fall in Love Like a Star, but debuted behind The Martian, which was on its second weekend of play.[34][35] Alcon Entertainment's Andrew Kosove said they were happy with the results given the lack of brand equity associated with the film there.[34] Including revenues from five other Asian markets, the total opening was $14.1 million.[34] Buoyed by good word of mouth, the film fell only 14% in its second weekend to $10.2 million ($18.8 million in its full second week), which is the lowest second weekend drop of any film in China of 2015.[36][37] It was finally overtaken by Chinese films Mojin: The Lost Legend and Surprise in its third weekend. As of December 26, it has grossed a total of $38.6 million in China.[38]

In other markets worldwide, it opened in Russia and the CIS with $1.8 million,[39] and in Australia with $1.5 million.[40]

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 8% based on 59 reviews; the average score is 3.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Loaded with dazzling action but bereft of purpose, the Point Break remake will be remembered as the first film to make audiences pine for the simultaneous presences of Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey."[41] On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 34 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[42] Cinema audiences polled by CinemaScore gave Point Break an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[43]

Maggie Lee of Variety called the film "a visual dazzler and a dramatic non-starter."[44] Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a thrill ride in need of a few more thrills."[45] Norl Murray of Los Angeles Times remarked that "while Bigelow's version featured charismatic lead performances and ample pop, Core's cast mumbles slowly and sparingly at one another until it's time to jump off something."[46] The A.V. Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky said: "Boldly reimagining Kathryn Bigelow’s cult favorite as a movie where absolutely nobody seems to be having any fun, the new Point Break drops the original’s Zen-like balance of macho mysticism and camp in favor of dour humorlessness."[47]

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