10 Movie Remakes Nobody Expected Or Wanted

If the original Red Dawn is the mid-eighties incarnate, then Point Break is the same for the early nineties. If someone had never heard of Point Break, all you would have to do is tell them the premise (“Keanu Reeves is an FBI agent who must go undercover to infiltrate a bunch of surfer-dude bank robbers”) and they’d more than likely be able to guess which decade it was made and released in. Even Reeves' character’s name, “Johnny Utah”, exudes that sort of 90s “extreme with an X” cool you just don’t get anymore.

So what do you get when you take a film that could most accurately be described at “radical” and remake it in a post-2000, cynical, realism-obsessed media landscape? Funnily enough, you get a bland and uninspiring action film.

In its defence, the 2015 remake got a fair amount of impressive extreme sports sequences, but it ended up taking itself way too seriously, and lost that genuine sense of fun that made the original film what it was.

Also, how do you compete with Keanu Reeves, Gary Bewsey and Patrick Swayze? This remake lost the battle before it was even fought.