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Extreme sports meets international crime in "Point Break," an action-packed but humorless remake of the hyper-masculine 1991 thriller.

The movie follows Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey), a former motocross racer turned FBI recruit who hears about a diamond heist in Mumbai where the thieves crashed out of a 100th-floor window on motorcycles and parachuted to their escape. Utah links this crime to two others and realizes the culprits are extreme-sports athletes like him.

He persuades his boss (Delroy Lindo) to let him go undercover to infiltrate the group, led by the charismatic Bodhi (Edgar Ramirez). Utah's loyalties are tested, both by Bodhi's bromantic eco-warrior philosophy and by Bodhi's luscious acolyte Samsara (Teresa Palmer).

Director Ericson Core ("Invincible") takes the action to more locations than a James Bond movie — Paris, Switzerland, Venezuela and even Utah — for some spectacular visuals and amazing stunts. But neither the cast nor Kurt Wimmer's script carries any of the lightness or campy dudeness that Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves brought to the original. Never have so many surfed waves so big without having any fun.

'Point Break'

Opening Friday, Dec. 25, at theaters everywhere; rated PG-13 for violence, thematic material involving perilous activity, some sexuality, language and drug material; 113 minutes.