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A 2015 action-thriller directed by Ericson Core that follows young FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) going undercover with a team of thrill seekers in a remake of the 1991 Point Break.

The movie also stars Édgar Ramírez, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer, Matias Varela, Clemens Schick, Tobias Santelmann, Max Thieriot, Delroy Lindo, and Nikolai Kinski.

It was released on December 1, 2015.


Tropes for the film:

  • Actionized Adaptation: The original film was not lacking in action, but this one has more numerous and more absurd action sequences spread throughout, including a wingsuit freefall, a mid-air heist, and one heist in which Bodhi decided the best way to prevent being chased was to blow up a whole cliff.
  • As Himself: Steve Aoki appears as himself in the movie at the request of Bodhi's rich benefactor.
  • Death by Adaptation: Samsara, Tyler's Expy, while Pappas is instead Spared by the Adaptation.
  • Extreme Sports Plot: Escalated from the previous film. Instead of pulling bank robberies to fund an "Endless Summer" of surfing, Bodhi and his crew are stealing to fund a marathon of extreme sports stunts around the world that will, allegedly, lead to spiritual nirvana. The heists themselves also have escalated from bank robberies to complicated jobs that require extreme sports experience to pull off, such as stealing a pallet full of cash from a cargo plane and performing a HALO jump to escape.
  • FBI Agent: Johnny is an undercover agent investigating a group of ecoterrorists.
  • Remake Cameo: James LeGros, who played Roach in the original movie, plays an assistant FBI director.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Pappas while Samsara, Tyler's Expy, instead gets Death by Adaptation.
  • Tagline: "The only law that matters is gravity".
  • Time-Shifted Actor: Judah Lewis plays a younger Johnny Utah.


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