Point Break [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Director: Ericson Core, Kathryn Bigelow Ericson Core

Overview

Undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) infiltrates a group of extreme athletes who are using their specialized skills to pull off a series of complex crimes. This action thriller is a remake of the 1991 cult hit of the same name, and features a number of real-life extreme athletes performing the stunts, which include free rock climbing, wingsuit flying, and motocross riding. Edgar Ramirez and Teresa Palmer co-star. Directed by Ericson Core (Invincible).

Product Details

Release Date:	06/07/2016
UPC:	0883929537686
Original Release:	2015
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray
Sales rank:	10,022

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Luke Bracey	Johnny Utah
Edgar Ramírez	Bodhi
Teresa Palmer	Samsara
Matias Padin Varela	Grommet
Clemens Schick	Actor
Ray Winstone	Angelo Pappas
Delroy Lindo	Instruktor FBI
James LeGros	Agent FBI
Max Thieriot	Jeff
Tobias Santelmann	Chowder
Judah Lewis	Young Johnny Utah
Jaymes Butler	Agent FBI
Bojesse Christopher	Chapman, dyrektor FBI
Glynis Barber	FBI - Head Of Investigations
Nikolai Kinski	Pascal Al Fariq
Steve Toussaint	FBI Dept. Director #1
Ronak Patani	FBI Technician
Patrick Dewayne	C-130 Pilot
Seumas Sargent	C-130 Co Pilot,C-130 Co Pilot
Numan Acar	Turkish Doorman
Julien Lambert	Boat Vendor
Laird Hamilton	Surf Vagabond
Stephan Baumecker	Rock Hauler Driver
Jeff Burrell	Cortes Banks Helicopter Pilot
Francesco Martino	Interpol Technician
Marco Velutti	Interpol Tech
Gerard Monaco	Interpol Agent
Mouloud Achour	Cameos Yact
Bob Burnquist	Cameos Yacht
Sal Masekela	Cameos Yacht
Steve Aoki	Cameos Chalet
Jeb Corliss	Cameos Chalet
Eric Koston	Cameos Chalet
Chris Sharma	Cameos Chalet
Eddie Santiago Jordan	C-130 Pilot
Christian Koch	Rock Hauler Driver
Faris Al-Sultan	Cameo Yacht
Patrick Swayze	Actor
Keanu Reeves	Actor
Gary Busey	Actor
Lori Petty	Actor
Daniel Beer	Actor
Brett Rosenberg	Cameo Yacht
Seth Troxler	Cameo Yacht
Sebastian Zietz	Cameo Yacht
Louie Vito	Actor
John C. McGinley	Actor
Jorg Reichlin	French Driver
Louie Enriquez	Young Rider
Kenny Glasgow	Cameos Yacht
Xavier DeLeRue	Cameos Chalet
Christian Haller	Cameos Chalet
Edgar Ramirez	Actor
Junkie XL	Composer
Tom Holkenborg	Composer

Technical Credits

Kurt Wimmer

W. Peter Iliff

Broderick Johnson	Producer
Andrew Kosove	Producer,Producer
Ericson Core	Director
John Baldecchi	Producer
Michael DeLuca	Producer
Chris Taylor	Producer,Producer
David Valdes	Producer
Kurt Wimmer	Screenwriter,Producer
W. Peter Iliff	Screenwriter
Dan Mintz	Executive Producer,Producer
Devesh Chetty	Executive Producer
Robert L. Levy	Executive Producer,Producer
Wu Bing	Executive Producer,Producer
Peter Abrams	Executive Producer,Producer
John McMurrick	Executive Producer,Producer
Bing Wu	Executive Producer
Christopher Assells	Sound Effects
Odin Benitez	Sound Effects
Tom Burns	Sound Effects
Blake Collins	Sound Effects
John Papsidera	Casting
Joseph Torres	Producer
Michael Czermin	Producer
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Sandra Solares	Producer
Kuldeep Rathore	Producer
Marcel Rasquin	Producer
John Bernard	Producer
Roland Winke	Sound Mixer
Emilio Cortes	Sound Mixer
Vinod Subramanian	Sound Mixer
Janet Urban	Sound Mixer
Colin Nicolson	Sound Mixer
Joe Hettinger	Sound Mixer
Bill Dean	Sound/Sound Designer
Fernando Camara	Sound Mixer
Jeff Sawyer	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) used to be an up-for-anything thrill seeker. But after he is chastened by the death of a friend during a motocross stunt gone wrong, he decides to become an FBI trainee. His background in extreme sports comes in handy, however, when his higher-ups announce that they're on the trail of a crew whose motivations for larceny they find baffling: The gang commit daring heists like one in which they roar through a diamond-sorting facility in India on motorcycles while scooping up trays full of gems, but when they parachute to safety they shower the destitute village below with all of the loot. What motivates these anticapitalist tricksters? Utah's theory is that they're committing these heists as a side amusement while completing the Ozaki Eight, a series of near-impossible extreme-sports challenges created by a now-deceased Japanese polyathlete, and which are designed to foster enlightenment by communing with Mother Earth and thereby saving her from those who would plunder her riches. He gets the go-ahead to infiltrate the group and returns to the party-hearty extreme-sports scene, where he meets Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez), a surly, tattooed, and enigmatic free spirit and self-styled Buddhist who spouts millennial koans like "If a tree falls in the forest and no one posts it on YouTube, did it happen?" The bulk of this remake of Kathryn Bigelow's super-gnarly 1991 surf thriller is devoted to Utah's escapades in the wilderness with Bodhi's crew, which are expanded from the original to include rock climbing, snowboarding, BASE jumping, surfing 80-foot waves, and using wingsuits -- the latter makes the wearer look like a nylon flying squirrel and provides the movie's most exhilarating sequence, as Bodhi and the gang coast over a picturesque Swiss mountain range in what feels like a dream about flying made real. Judging from the ratio of stunt performers to special-effects technicians in the credits, the vast majority of these vertigo-inducing challenges were done by real athletes on location under actual conditions, and the authenticity of their physical accomplishments, as well as the grandeur of their unspoiled surroundings, are the best parts of what is essentially a high-octane nature travelogue. That's not to say that this remake isn't an improvement on the original. It was a smart idea to make Utah a former extreme athlete, rather than the ex-football-player straight arrow played by Keanu Reeves in the 1991 version (Australian Luke Bracey's monotone, surfer-drawl American accent could be an homage to Reeves, too). That way, it makes sense when Utah must choose between the principled grief he feels at possibly luring his friend to his death and the Zen absolution -- "Hey man, everyone chooses their own path" -- that Bodhi's blissed-out philosophy provides. And while the movie's plot holes are massive -- why clamber up a mountain in pursuit of a fugitive when you could nab them with a helicopter at the top? How come a search for ecological rapture involves jetting around the world in fuel-burning planes? And are Buddhists really that into armed robbery? -- Point Break is still a reasonably taut thriller full of visceral delights.