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Point Break (2015)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Without a doubt, this remake of Point Break is attempting to capitalize on nostalgia. Nothing about the original screamed “this won’t endure” but they’re remaking everything else, so why not? It also looks as though this 2015 film is trying to get some of that Fast & Furious money by turning its focus on the stunts and other “extreme” aspects of the story. This is a critical mistake which makes the film shallow, cold, and dull.

Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) is a former motocross star and polyathlete (meaning he will master any sport from surfing to skydiving) training to become an FBI agent. He thinks he’s figured out the MO behind a string of peculiar crimes: a group of eco-warrior/extreme athletes are attempting a series of element-based challenges to reach enlightenment, a portion of which is dedicated to “giving back”, hence the crimes which end in ludicrous charitable acts and donations. When Johnny begins infiltrating the group, he befriends their leader, Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez). As they grow closer together, their bond threatens the entire investigation.

Strictly speaking, this is a retelling of the 1991 film. The characters share the same names and key plot points are there. In so many ways, however, this is like the Bizarro World version of it. Screenplay writer Kurt Wimmer simultaneously simplifies and overcomplicates the plot. Achieving the next level of meditation by dropping out of a plane after a high-altitude heist? It’s ludicrous even before you get into the details of the Ozaki 8 challenge/ritual. None of the extreme tasks are obvious things like “skydive out of a plane to conquer air” or "climb a volcano to understand fire". Instead it has to do with the direction you’re going, whether someone’s done it before and how dangerous the stunt is. The entire quest loses all credibility when we’re told the man who dreamt up this path of extreme wisdom died not even halfway through!

Though it may sound as though I’ve spoiled things by telling you that Bodhi is the mastermind behind the crimes Johnny Utah is investigating, I haven’t. The central mystery is so shallow you figure out everything this movie has in store minutes in. Even if you haven’t seen the original (as I had the first time I saw this). We don’t even get a single red herring to throw us off, so you’ll grow bored waiting for our hero to figure out what we did early on. Not helping are the bland characters. It’s as if no effort was made to differentiate anyone at all. Everyone has the same demeanour, the same kind of dialogue, and nearly identical tattoos. We don’t even get different ethnicities among the characters to help us figure out who’s who, which becomes impossible once the stunt sequences come in. You think at the very least the one woman with a speaking role, Samsara (Teresa Palmer), will get a little bit of a fleshing out by virtue of being the love interest but she gets maybe two scenes to herself and is so not in this movie you could’ve cut her out and changed nothing at all. How is it this movie lasts nearly two hours?

To be fair, Point Break does have one redeeming quality: the stunts. It's hard not to be impressed as characters race down mountaintops, dive out of planes, surf on waves, etc. They’re the kind of thing you’d never dream of doing so getting to see them shot this well is appealing. With that said, this picture suffers greatly on the small screen. When I saw the wing suit sequence in theatres, in 3D, it was mind-blowing. Not enough to warrant a recommendation or to make the movie memorable, but it still made me go "wow!" On my TV? Forget about it.

Say what you will about Keanu Reeves - who I think is good when he’s well cast - but he’s a manic overperformer compared to everyone in this movie. There’s no charm or excitement to be found in this remake of Point Break. It’s a film which struggles to justify its existence. There’s no way anyone will remember it down the line. (On DVD, April 26, 2019)

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Point Break (1991) Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

Screenplay by: W. Peter Iliff

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THE ENFORCER (2022) Antonio Banderas action crime thriller with trailer

‘Some guardians aren’t angels’ The Enforcer is a 2022 American action thriller film about a criminal who turns against the mob to protect a young runaway. Directed by Richard Hughes from a screenplay written by W. Peter Iliff. The movie features Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth, Mojean Aria, Zolee Griggs, Alexis Ren, 2 Chainz, Mark Rhino Smith, Luke Bouchier, Natalie Burn, Christos Vasilopoulos,…

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Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, James Le Gros, John Philbin, Bojesse Christopher, Julian Reyes, Daniel Beer, Chris Pedersen, Vincent Klyn, Anthony Kiedis, Dave Olson, Lee Tergesen. Screenplay: Rich King, W. Peter Iliff. Cinematography: Donald Peterman. Production design: Peter Jamison. Film editing: Howard E. Smith. Music: Mark Isham.

Point Break is so kinetic a movie, so crammed with stunts and fights and chases, that it almost seems like a parody of an action flick. Just when you wonder how the movie can top its surfing sequences, it throws in a skydiving episode. When you're expecting another car chase, you get an exhilarating, not to say exhausting, foot chase. I have to wonder if what makes Kathryn Bigelow such a successful action director is that, as a woman, she has a special point of view on what testosterone-driven action looks like. The dialogue is loaded with machismo: "Young, dumb, and full of cum." "It's basic dog psychology: If you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit." Skydiving is "Sex with gods. You can't beat that!... One hundred percent pure adrenaline." "Why be a servant to the law when you can be its master?" "You gonna jump or jerk off?" After a fight: "This is stimulating, but we're out of here." It's the one female character of any consequence in the movie, Lori Petty's Tyler, who sardonically quits a scene by commenting, "Okay, too much testosterone around here for me." Bigelow's objectification of male display is what gives the movie a subversive quality that transcends its hyperactivity.

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Sinopsis Film Point Break, Aksi Luke Bracey Menyamar Jadi Atlet Olahraga Ekstrim Demi Misi FBI

Berikut Sinopsis Film Point Break yang akan tayang di Trans TV malam ini, Selasa (10/5/2022) pukul 21.30 WIB. Film Point Break Bergen Action, Peturangan, Kejahatan Domba Disutradarai Ole Ericsson Core, Dikutip Jembatan IMDb. Cerita dan naskah film yang ditulis oleh Author Kurt Wimmer, Rick King, W. Peter Iliff. slot gacor 2022 Aktor dan aktris yang membintangi film Point Break di antaranya Luke…

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If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.

Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow (1991)

#Kathryn Bigelow #W. Peter Iliff #Patrick Swayze #Keanu Reeves #Gary Busey #Lori Petty #John C. McGinley #James Le Gros #John Philbin #Bojesse Christopher #Julian Reyes #Daniel Beer #Chris Pedersen #Lee Tergesen #Donald Peterman #Mark Isham #Howard E. Smith #1991 #woman director

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Point Break (1991) Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

Screenplay by: W. Peter Iliff

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i-watch-movies · 3 years

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Movie: Point Break (1991)

Starring: Surfin' Keanu and confused male emotions

Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

Written by: W. Peter Iliff

Did I like this movie?: Yes!

Why?/Why Not?: Total fun!

Why did I watch it?: Another lucky choice that was just starting as I sat down to search a movie

Takeaway: Fun movies are fun.

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Eudyptula minor

By J. J. Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0

Etymology: Good Diver

First Described By: Bonaparte, 1856

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoromorpha, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostaylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae, Neornithes, Neognathae, Neoaves, Aequorlitornithes, Ardeae, Aequornithes, Austrodyptornithes, Sphenisciformes, Spheniscidae

Status: Extant, Least Concern

Time and Place: From 12,000 years ago until today, in the Holocene of the Quaternary

Little Penguins are known from the coast of Australia and New Zealand

Physical Description: Little Penguins are some of the most adorable penguins alive today, and the reason is clear: they’re smol! Little Penguins range in size between 40 and 45 centimeters in length, and none weigh more than 2.1 kilograms. They are a blue-grey on their backs and white on their bellies and necks. They have very small flippers, which can be entirely blue or blue only in the center with white banding around it. They have short little tails and small feet, which are formed into lightly orange flippers. Their beaks are short and round, and either light in color or dark depending on the population. The juveniles tend to be a somewhat duller color than the adults, but usually very similar overall.

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Diet: Little Penguins feed mainly on fish that form schools in the pelagic zone of the ocean (rather than closer to the coast). They’ll also feed on cephalopods and crustaceans.

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Behavior: These nocturnal penguins will capture their food via pursuit-diving, mainly swimming around schools of fish in tighter and tighter circles until finally - woosh! - they dive into the middle and grab as much food as they can. In shallower water, they do pursue the fish more directly. They can dive as deep as 50 meters underwater, sometimes more - including 69 meters deep. They go up to 62 kilometers away from the nesting and sleeping colony sites, though they can usually only go a fraction of that in a single day and longer distances are reserved for multiple day trips. Females tend to forage more than the males. They feed alone, though they do forage in groups. They are extremely noisy in their colonies, making a variety of trills, brays, growls, grunts, yelping, trumpeting, and wailing sounds to one another. They do not migrate, but do stay near the breeding colony extensively during the moulting and nesting season. Juveniles will leave the colony for a large amount of time, but do eventually return to breed where they were born.

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Little Penguins begin breeding in July and continue through December, though it varies from colony to colony and from year to year. They tend to stick to one nest site for their whole lives and are also fairly monogamous, though they do divorce from their partners around 76% of the time. If they are unsuccessful in raising any chicks one year, the next year they are more likely to divorce than not. The nests are made in a little bit far apart from one another in the colonie, usually a burrow in the sand lined with plant material. Usually two eggs are laid in the nest and are incubated for a little more than one month by both parents. The chicks hatch extremely fluffy and greyish-brown; they then molt to look dark brown and grey another month later. At this time young birds will form creches together for two more months, hanging out and learning from each other. They then fledge and become juveniles two more months later. They become sexually mature at two to four years of age, and can live for up to 20 years (though shorter is more common). The chicks and nesting colonies tend to feed at dusk.

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Ecosystem: Little Penguins live mainly in sandy and rocky coasts, usually near the bases of cliffs and in sand dunes. They will spend most of their time in temperate to sub-arctic marine waters, many miles offshore. They are preyed upon by cats, dogs, rats, foxes, lizards, snakes, ferrets, stoats, seals, and some other ocean predators. They are mostly affected by introduced mammalian predators at this time.

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Other: While Little Penguins are, overall, doing alright and are even common in terms of population management; however, a number of human-created threats are affecting certain colonies and bringing many of them to the verge of collapse. Uncontrolled hunting by domesticated dogs and cats are major causes of colony destruction, as are oil spills, fishing interactions (including being caught in nets), human interference and development, as well as cullings by humans attempting to manage populations of other birds. As such, Little Penguins are of major interest for ecological groups in order to preserve their populations in light of these threats. Fossils of this species are known from its current range from the recent ice age.

~ By Meig Dickson

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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Point Break (1991)

I don’t believe in bad premises, only in bad executions. Point Break is a perfect example. When you hear the premise, it sounds ridiculous but the movie itself is so good you feel like a fool for doubting it. Exciting, fun and surprisingly well written - particularly during its unusually deep conclusion - this is the kind of movie you become obsessed with.

Undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) is investigating a string of robberies. His partner, agent Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey), believes a team of surfers is responsible. While compiling a list of suspects, Johnny falls in love with Tyler Endicott (Lori Petty) and befriends a gang of surfers led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). The complex relationship that develops seeps into every aspect of Johnny’s life, eventually threatening his job.

This buddy-cop action crime thriller takes you way by surprise. At 122 minutes it might be a tad long (maybe by 5 minutes) but along the way, it gives you so much. There are many laughs as Johnny and Pappas set out to prove the latter’s scoffed-at theory of criminal surfers. You’ll have a hard time holding back your chuckles as Johnny walks into his office board in hand to explain himself to his superior. Then, the film takes an entirely different tone when all signs point to the theory being true. There are “action” scenes as Johnny learns to surf and becomes embroiled in Body and his friends' extreme lifestyle. Then there are traditional action scenes as Johnny must pull out his gun while his fellow officers lay siege upon a house full of suspects who will do anything to avoid capture. This big, exciting confrontation leads to a moment of extreme tension, the kind in which guns - and therefore a quick, easy death - have been discarded. All that remains is the sort of dirty hand-to-hand combat that sure to leave you with a mangled face and broken bones. In any other film, this would be the climax. Here, we're just getting started.

Superbly directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Point Break, the stakes just keep getting higher and higher because of the characters. As a study of a law enforcer’s growing obsession, this is fascinating stuff. While it’s playing you’re simply concerned with the moment, enthralled by the death-defying stunts and possible ramifications the characters face. Once the dust settles, your brain catches up and makes sense of what just happened. Only then do you realize just how insane Johnny had to be to go to the lengths he did. You wonder if - should he even manage to get the “Ex Presidents” gang - he will emerge unscathed.

The conclusion is particularly strong. We’ve spent this whole time seeing the relationship between Johnny and Body develop. You like these characters despite their faults. You want them to redeem themselves, or at the very least to learn something. That would be a nice conclusion but this picture refuses to be nice. Instead of giving you the finale you want, it gives you the one you deserve. It might leave you shaking, slightly bewildered but deep down, you knew it was going to happen the way it did. You held out hope against all odds. Why? Because the movie got you, it got into your head and knew what it was doing.

I had always dismissed Point Break as the kind of film people looked back fondly upon solely due to nostalgia. Those who have seen the original The Fast and the Furious may find the film’s plot a little familiar but this film, written by Rick King and W. Peter Iliff reaches a higher level of sophistication. The characters are written several layers deeper than we’re used to seeing. Even without them, you’d still have great action, many memorable - and frequently hilarious - moments as well as a strong performance by Swayze. (On DVD, January 5, 2019)

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