Point Break

Cast: Édgar Ramírez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Delroy Lindo and Ray Winstone 
Rated: 5/10
Adrenalinewallahs, get set. There’s non-stop action here — on all routes — land, air, sea. Waves go high and tidal as surfers play with life. They jump down a 180 feet waterfall, they climb rocks more vertical than vertical can be. They engineer heists in manners that boggles the FBI — jumping off parachute-fitted scooters from 100th storey, or taking away stacks of green notes and dispersing them over Mumbai slums and Mexican have-not zones.
And they are not common criminals you would want behind bars without ado. They are missionaries of an ancient Chinese cult, trying to create an equatable lebensraum all over the world.
On their trail is a former extreme sportsman who has joined the FBI after losing his friend to one dirt stretch motorbike ride over cliff-hangers.
So far so good. But then everything starts getting muddled. You do not understand for most part of the movie whether this rookie FBI agent on the trail of these adventure extremists  is with them or after them. He joins in many of the acts and then leaves for official pursuit. Joins again and then turns agent-ish again. Reason? Besides the obvious sympathy with their cause, no other concrete direction is given to this emerging scenario.
Point Break has a massive reputation with the first one earning almost a cult following. This one has the thrills too but largely it fails to click because of the way these tricks are handled. They come one after the other without a break or any attempt at a storyline.
Of course, when the acts are in progress, they do take your breath away. But how  much of non-stop action can you digest if it is not strewn alongside a story?
Not much, and that’s what will be the main reason for the movie to be pulled down.
Maybe Keanu Reeves could have saved the day. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 27 December, 2015

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