S4E23: Point Break (2015)

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This may in fact be the point, at which you break. We have reconvened to discuss the 2015 Point Break remake, its foibles and achievements, because consistency is the name of our game. --- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patcheshttps://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

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0:00.0	become the wind
0:00.7	or you'll hit your point
0:02.4	what point
0:04.3	the point where you break
0:06.2	hello and welcome to another episode of Cole James Bond.
0:26.6	I, as you may have heard, groaning.
0:29.3	I am November Kelly.
0:30.3	I am joined, as always, by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:33.5	Engten, listener.
0:35.9	What's up, homies?
0:37.5	How you doing?
0:38.5	Cawabunga.
0:39.4	This is not, yeah, not a surfer movie.
0:42.3	No.
0:42.7	Not a Californian surfer movie.
0:44.3	I have some theories about what kind of movie it is, but we're back with the remake of Point Break, beloved 1990s action classic. Have you ever, like, show your gun on the air and gone, ah. Mm-hmm. I didn't know that this remake existed, but they made it. Nope. It exists. They did. And you know what? It's a film and that means we are going to have to watch it and talk about it. 2015, this came out. 2015. Mm-hmm. But to be fair, like 1991, the first one came out.
1:14.8	This is, what, 25 years later.
1:16.6	Yeah.
1:17.4	Was there a huge market of point break nostalgia to catch in on?
1:21.4	I don't think so.
1:22.1	This is really, like, related to the first one in any appreciable way
1:27.5	other than the fact that the first one was
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