Action Point (2018)

Directed by

Tim Kirkby

Genre

comedy film, action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

R

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 362 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A daredevil runs a dangerously run-down amusement park in the 1980s. He and his crew pull wild stunts to stop a loan officer from taking the land.

slapstickchaoticnostalgicgoofyenergeticlow-stakesrowdysilly

What happens

Action Point is a 2018 American slapstick comedy film directed by Tim Kirkby and starring Johnny Knoxville and Chris Pontius, both of whom had worked together on Jackass. Knoxville was inspired to make the film after seeing Matt Robertson's 2013 short documentary The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever, about Action Park, a theme park in New Jersey which was notorious for its poorly designed, unsafe rides, in addition to employing underaged, undertrained and often intoxicated staff. Set in the early 1980s, the film follows D.C. Carver, a daredevil who owns a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park Action Point with dangerous rides. D.C. and his crew must save the park from the loan officer Knoblach who plans on selling his land for foreclosure. As with Bad Grandpa, a previous film by Knoxville, Action Point features traditional Jackass-style stunts connected by a fictional narrative. It was released in the United States on June 1, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. It underperformed at the box office, grossing $5.1 million against its $19 million budget and received mostly negative reviews from critics, who called the film "boring, by-the-numbers and deflated." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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