For those worried that the first trailer to the Point Break reboot gave away all the best moments, consider your suspicions confirmed. It turns out, they didn’t even have enough material for a decent second trailer.
Storywise, we get the slightest bit of insight, as new semi-European Bodhi and his semi-European gang are correlating robberies on multiple continents as a way to complete the Osaki Eight, some kind of endurance trial toward enlightenment that involves every kind of extra-extreme stunt work imaginable. But that’s it. Where the first trailer gave us the now infamous line “the only law that matters is gravity,” here we get a dime-store zen koan about pushing your boundaries and ultimately finding them.
Beyond that, we get a little more Delroy Lindo as the FBI Chief hassling our new extreme Johnny Utah with out of context lines like “you’ve been undercover what, two weeks?” and a LOT of his Busey-esque partner (grizzled character actor Ray Winstone) questioning first his surfing ability, then his loyalty “you’ve been undercover too long.” (Yeah, what’s it been, like, two weeks?) Though this is all packaged around shot after shot of extreme stunt porn, extreme parachuting, extreme hang gliding, extreme dirt biking, and a yacht party (which I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that party is going to be EXTREME!)
Finally, I know I’m fact-checking plot points in a two-and-a-half minute trailer for an “extreme” reboot of Point Break here, but aren’t crimes on multiple continents a little out of the jurisdiction of the FBI? Just wondering.
Point Break will be in theaters everywhere on… Christmas Day?! Weird.
