Point Break 2015

Maggie Lee, Variety: What weighs the characters down is not their parachutes or rock-climbing gear, but their sententious First World guilt and bland casting; gone is the free-spirited fun of Kathryn Bigelow's cult-hit original. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Boldly reimagining Kathryn Bigelow's cult favorite as a movie where absolutely nobody seems to be having any fun, the new Point Break drops the original's Zen-like balance of macho mysticism and camp in favor of dour humorlessness. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: For all the adrenalizing positives in this reworked "Point Break," inadvertent silliness remains. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: The first "Point Break" rode the big kahuna; this one's a wipeout. Read more

Elizabeth Kerr, Hollywood Reporter: Strips the silly fun and relatively straight-ahead narrative from the original for a humorless, if photogenic spin on extreme crime. Read more

Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times: Tedious and overblown - as though the filmmakers were so preoccupied with "updating" the material that they forgot what made it so popular in the first place. Read more

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: Nowhere does Mr. Core's film approach the action-movie chops or psychological smarts of Ms. Bigelow's original or, truth be told, benefit from actors displaying the same charm as her stars. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Analyzed on its own merits or in concert with the earlier film, Point Break doesn't work. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: A remake that ought not to have been made. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: This "Point Break" removes almost everything that was special about the 1991 original, and replaces it with a Mountain Dew commercial. Read more

Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail: Big on stunts and 3-D visuals but tiny on character development and good old-fashioned fun, the new Point Break looks great but lacks the cult-hit original's charisma and crescendo. And existentially, it never quite gets lost enough to be found. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Director Ericson Core and writer Kurt Wimmer clearly want to up the ante on the action, but they make almost no effort to incorporate these stirring sequences into the rest of the movie. Read more

Sam Weisberg, Village Voice: Stiff, humorless, tension-free ... Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: Basically a cavalcade of extreme sports, but with less drama than a highlight reel. Read more