{"id":22138,"date":"2016-03-27T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22138"},"modified":"2016-08-27T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T12:26:27","slug":"point-break-2015-blu-raydvddigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/27\/point-break-2015-blu-raydvddigital\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Break (2015) [Blu-Ray\/DVD\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pointbreak2015\"<\/a>Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s 1991 action film \u201cPoint Break\u201d was never really anything resembling a masterpiece, but one thing you could never call it was boring. It\u2019s garnered something of a cult following over the years, for a reason. It\u2019s a silly, goofy, and fun bromance where Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze bring their A game in one of the most sexless male romance action films of all time. It\u2019s a camp classic despite its major failings. \u201cPoint Break\u201d 2015 takes the 1991 original and saps out all of the fun and inherent camp, transforming it in to a tedious, overlong action thriller without a lick of humor about itself. Even \u201cFast and the Furious,\u201d which copied \u201cPoint Break\u201d shamelessly, had a sense of humor about itself and embraced its silly trappings and ridiculous plot line. Coming ten years too late, \u201cPoint Break\u201d comes along after about fifteen retreads, and doesn\u2019t really do anything except inspire the viewer to check out the original action film.<\/p>\n

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Luke Bracey is the new Johnny Utah, a risk taking extreme athlete whose best friend died falling off a cliff during a wilderness excursion. Traumatized, Johnny has abandoned the extreme lifestyle in favor of working as a police detective. When a group of extreme criminals begin pulling off extreme heists all over the world, indulging in a Robin Hood series of thefts involving stealing from corporations and giving to the poor, Utah begins to draw the connection. For once his years of Extreme sportsmanship is finally coming to use, as he senses the thieves are well orchestrated and are engaging in these thefts for something more than money. Delroy Lindo plays the gruff law enforcement superior, yet again, who puts Utah on the case despite being given hell by their superiors. Lindo has become accustomed to playing these \u201cthorn in the side\u201d roles, and here his character is not really any different than the one from \u201cGone in 60 Seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Utah infiltrates, the gang led by the enigmatic Bodhi, he forms affections for the group sports lovers, and revives his love for thrills, and death defying stunts. Director Ericson Corre sucks all of the unique energy and charisma from the story, creating a broad reworking of the original that\u2019s way too long, and feels like it was cobbled together by a committee to garner mass appeal. Speaking as someone with a great attention span, I had a nearly impossible time trying to focus on \u201cPoint Break\u201d and muster up some kind of interest in what was unfolding before my eyes. Even with the amazing stunt work and excellent cinematography, it\u2019s all just going through the motions, dragging us in to the closing credits. Corre\u2019s reworking doesn\u2019t embrace the silliness like the original film did, and fails to ignite any kind of interesting characters that could jump start a new series. That\u2019s what we have \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d for.<\/p>\n

Featured in the Blu-Ray release, is a digital copy for consumers. There\u2019s also a multi-chapter segment where there\u2019s a brief spotlight for various stunt sequences. There are very short spotlights rock climbing, wing suit flying, motocross, and much, much more. There are various deleted scenes, all of which can be played individually or in a row. There are four deleted scenes total, with all of them clocking in at eight minutes. There are two official trailers for the movie clocking in at over five minutes in length, and finally a bonus trailer for the upcoming \u201cBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s 1991 action film \u201cPoint Break\u201d was never really anything resembling a masterpiece, but one thing you could never call it was boring. It\u2019s garnered something of a cult following over the years, for a reason. It\u2019s a silly, goofy, and fun bromance where Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze bring their A game in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[58,71,240,302,391,752,835,874,974,1087],"class_list":["post-22138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-gangster","tag-p","tag-remake","tag-romance","tag-sports","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22140,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions\/22140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}