I’ve been so excited to see Luke Bracey in Point Break that even a year ago, when I was writing about The November Man, I accidentally typed Luke Break. I corrected it before I published but my subconscious was telling me something. So I was excited to finally get a chance to talk to Bracey […]
During a press conference for Point Break, in which he plays Bodhi, Edgar Ramirez shared a deep philosophy about what both Point Break movies mean. “The promise of accumulation and being successful financially and accumulating material goods is the promise that Reaganism left us,” Ramirez said. “25 years later, it got broken. Our movie pretty […]
Point Break promises even more extreme action than the movie it is based on, by including extreme sports that didn’t exist yet in 1991. As a cinematographer, Ericson Core has shot extreme movies before like The Fast and the Furious and Payback. As a director, Point Break is only Core’s second movie after Invincible. I […]
A lot has changed in the new Point Break. Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) is still going undercover for the FBI, but Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez) is not a bank robber. He’s an environmentalist stealing from corrupt companies and committing acts of terror to save the planet. There is no new Tyler character. Instead, Utah meets Samsara, […]