Point Break is a 2015 action-thriller film directed and shot by Ericson Core and written by Kurt Wimmer.

He co-produced it with John Baldecchi, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Christopher Taylor and David Valdes.

Extreme sport athlete Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey), and his friend Jeff (Max Thieriot), are traversing a steep ridgeline on motorbikes.

A similar heist happens in Mexico where the criminals unload millions of dollars in bills, then disappear into the Cave of Swallows.

[9] Utah's research concludes that they were done by the same men, who are attempting to complete the Ozaki 8,[10][9][11][12][13] a list of eight extreme ordeals to honor the forces of nature.

He wakes aboard a yacht with the surfer, Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez), and his team Roach (Clemens Schick), Chowder (Tobias Santelmann), and Grommet (Matias Varela).

Utah finds the location of the next ordeal: free solo climbing with no safety beside Angel Falls in Venezuela.

[17] A script for the remake had been lying around for years,[14] but it was not until Ericson Core pitched his idea to Warner Bros. that the film actually got off the ground.

[25] James LeGros and BoJesse Christopher, two of the actors who played Ex-Presidents in the 1991 film, were cast as FBI directors.

Shortly before production began in Berlin, Core got the cast and crew together to watch the original Point Break.

[27] Locations include Berlin/Germany, Hall in Tirol, Lienz and Carinthia/Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Hawaii, Tahiti, Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Venezuela, France, India, and the United Kingdom.

[28][29] While the original film focused on just a few sports – primarily surfing – and used cranes and other Hollywood trickery to portray them, the new movie eschewed all of that, including green screens, and relied on real life practical stunts.

[27] Core and his team looked all over the world to try to find out where waves were going to hit, and when, before finally settling on Teahupoʻo in Tahiti.

A set of crew first went to Jaws, a surf break in Maui, months before principal photography began on the film.

[27] Laird Hamilton, a pioneering big-wave surfer, who also played a minor role in the film, contributed his skills to the shoot.

[27] Additionally, Ian Walsh, a surfer from Maui and Billy Kemper, Makua Rothman, Ahani Tsondru all served as stunt doubles.

[7] The production canceled planned flights on a number of days because of poor weather conditions, eventually completing it only after two weeks in August 2014.

[7][30] Core brought in Jeb Corliss, a professional sky diver, to help coordinate the scene and handpick wingsuit athletes to perform the stunt.

[14] Corliss himself was going to be one of the fliers, but was not able to be, because he was recovering from a knee surgery after he tore his anterior cruciate ligament prior to the filming, while testing a suit.

[32] The five fliers includes two times World Wingsuit League champion and four times Guinness World Records holder Jhonathan Florez (cameraman, who died in July 2015),[32] Red Bull Air Force former manager Jon DeVore (portrayed Utah), who previously worked on the wingsuit sequence for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and served as the aerial coordinator,[14] Mike Swanson (Bodhi), Julian Boulle (Grommet), Noah Bahnson (Roach), and James Boole.

[34] For the snowboarding scene, which was shot in the Italian side of Aiguille de la Grande Sassière in Aosta Valley, professional snowboarders Xavier de Le Rue and Jeremy Jones,[27] along with Ralph Backstrom and Mike Basich, were hired to play stunt doubles.

[34] There were daily avalanche checks during the shoot, and a significant amount of time was spent sitting and waiting for the right conditions to film.

[35] Chris Sharma served as a stunt double for Johnny Utah,[34] whereas Teresa Palmer was filmed in a climbing scene separately in the Alps.

[35] Dani Andrada of Spain played the stunt double for Bodhi, and climber-filmmaker Mike Call was second-unit cameraman.

Others in the unit were Schultz (head rigger), Aaron Walters, Brooke Sandahl, Alexander Magerl and Ralf Haeger of Germany, Emiliyan Kolevski of Bulgaria, and Alberto Roha and other climbers from Venezuela.

[35] On several European jumping scenes, Core, who also previously trained as a mountain ranger, would hike up with a small crew and wait hours for safe conditions.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Loaded with dazzling action but bereft of purpose, the Point Break remake will be remembered as the first film to make audiences pine for the simultaneous presences of Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey.

"[55] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Club's Ignatiy Vishnevetsky said: "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.