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2015 · action · adventure · crime · thriller

Point Break

Directed by Ericson Core1h 54m2015
ElsewhereIMDb5.369kRT12%Metacritic34
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

Our read · Point Break (2015) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · adventure · crime entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want extreme-sports spectacle and bro-energy over coherent plotting.

ends bittersweetyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightRemake whiplash, physics-defying stunts, or soulless action will irritate you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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