Fellmans Movie Reviews

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The second Point Break is a bastardized version of the original where they took the names from the first movie and altered the essential theme and came up with something far, far worse than what was originally imagined by the creators of the first film. The second version took the thrill-seeking mentality to the extreme (no pun intended), while reducing the amount of dialogue and language to a bare minimum in order to try and squeeze as much action as possible into as few frames as they could. What resulted was little more than a Mountain Dew commercial with a poorly written story interjected here and there… 

What’s it about? As far as I could tell, which wasn’t easy, mind you, was that there is this list of extreme challenges that you can accomplish as an extreme sport… sportsman? Whatever… Either way, this list contains eight challenges that you can accomplish to achieve personal spiritual nirvana. Whatever that is supposed to mean. The movie started out with this group of people stealing diamonds and riding dirt bikes out of the top of a building. And then they stole this pallet of money out of a plane. And then they were surfing in the middle of the ocean on a yacht… And then they went snowboarding… And then they had a fistfight… At some point, he just kind of stopped working for the FBI and was just hanging out with these guys and going and doing extreme sports, and that was what the movie was. Just a highlight reel of snowboarding and dirt bike riding.  

What’s good? The special effects are good. And there’s a scene with a bunch of beautiful rich people partying on a yacht, if you’re into that sort of thing… 

What’s bad? Pretty much everything else. The acting is “B” level at best. The script, when people even are talking, which isn’t a whole lot, because there’s very little dialogue in the movie, is not great. The plot is poorly explained, with gaping holes. Not to mention circular and confusing. And all the decisions that the people make in the movie make you go “Why did he just do that…?” 

The acting? You can’t say they’re not trying. I mean, “A” for effort, you know? They’re just not any good at it. It just didn’t work this time. What are you gonna do? 

The effects? It’s a special effects kind of movie. It’s like Michael Bay himself was directing. God knows the script was bad enough. It was an action flick. That’s what they were going for. They weren’t going for deep relationships. They wanted thrill rides. And, good for them. They got it.  

The plot? It seems like they’re just kind of making it up as they go along. Like “There’s these guys, they robbed this bank.” “Oh, yeah? What next?” “Well, then they robbed this plane…” “Hmm…” “Yeah, then they went surfing…” “Huh?” 

The dirt bikes in the beginning. The opening sequence is excessively long, where they’re just riding around on these dunes, and then for no reason, they make this jump onto this very dangerous, thin, rock column, and the one guy dies. It’s like, “Why did you just do that? That seemed like a very bad idea.” There’s no back story, no nothing. They just do it. And then the one guy falls off the cliff. It’s kind of like when a kid is climbing a tree and he falls out and breaks his arm and you’re like, “Well, what were you doing up in that tree?” 

How he went from being a dirt bike rider to an FBI agent. And then, 7 years later, he’s an FBI agent. No back story there. He just… Is. What? His friend died, so he wanted to join the FBI? And he could? I don’t think it works that way… 

Pure plagiarism. At one point, they literally just recreated the scene from the original movie where Keanu Reeves rolls over on his back and screams and shoots into the air instead of shooting Bodhi while Bodhi is escaping. It was completely inappropriate for the scene, and they were just trying to salvage a horrible movie by mutating the most iconic scene from the original film. Literally pure plagiarism…

Watch them climb a mountain. Later on, you watch them climb a mountain. An extremely dangerous mountain, with outcroppings that you have to make backwards leaps to go further up. I believe Amy’s exact words were “This is making me very uncomfortable…” And that might’ve been the point of the sequence. As an action film, to make people tense and afraid of what might happen to the people in the film.  

Might as well jump. And then, after climbing all that way, they both jump from the top of the mountain into the water below. Now, I’m all about suspension of disbelief in a movie. Picking apart a movie ruins it for everybody. But they jumped off an extremely tall mountain… That took them an excessively long time to climb… Like, come on… 

Flies out on a helicopter. Afterwards, Johnny flies out into what is essentially a hurricane just so they can both look at each other for a minute and talk about how cool dying is? It seems like a huge waste of resources, not to mention, I don’t think helicopters can fly in hurricanes… 

This is a two-hour long movie. So, if you want to waste two hours making fun of something like it was Mystery Science Theater 3000, this is the perfect movie for you. If you’re looking for a good movie that is interesting and entertaining and will keep you locked in the entire time, you might want to look for something else… And as always, keep on watching, with a smile on your face…