Reviews of Point Break

100% pure adrenaline!

Posted : 3 months, 3 weeks ago on 26 April 2008 08:08 (A review of Point Break)

"Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true."

Point Break is simply a classic, highly entertaining action flick aimed at the mass market.

Keanu is new FBI agent recruit Johnny Utah. Young and ready for action, Utah is transferred to the band robbery division.

His first assignment is to investigate a string of bank robberies in Southern California that have been committed by a gang who call themselves 'The Ex-Presidents'. Going undercover, Utah infiltrates a group of surfers lead by surfer guru Bodhi (Swayze) and slowly learns to respect their lifestyle. These surfers are suspects in the investigation, so Utah must choose between his new friends or his duty that he has sworn to complete.

By this point in his career, Keanu Reeves still needed a few more acting lessons. For the most part he's incredibly wooden and lacking any emotion; spitting out words that sound rehearsed and unnatural.

Patrick Swayze was actually really good here. Thank God someone of Swayze's stature appeared in this movie. He almost manages to make up for Reeves' corny acting.

For an action movie, the script isn't too bad. Granted the film moves from cliché to cliché, and is very predictable...but at least it's entertaining!

The high energy action scenes make for essential viewing, especially for those who enjoy the genre.

Point Break is an action movie mixed with some energetic scenes of surfing. Some of the cinematography during the surfing scenes is fantastic, and the film is generally very entertaining.

It was great to see some characters pop up in Australia at the end. Worth a screening.

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surfing... usa!

Posted : 4 months ago on 18 April 2008 06:32 (A review of Point Break)

I think I can safely state that after 3 months of playing Speed, the movie theater in Riga must have *really* enjoyed Keanu Reeves because, right after those 3 months, the theater people decided to show Point Break for... one month. So once again, I set off to watch that film several times, and thoroughly enjoy it, despite its flaws and bad acting (need I mention Keanu??? Swayze is okay).

Good cop goes undercover in a world of surfing... and bank robberies. What's not to like ? Surfing, babes, good-looking men, action... Hot... and cool stuff!!

Another movie I watch once a year, just for the memories it brings back :)


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Point Break review

Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago on 17 July 2007 04:14 (A review of Point Break)

This is the movie that Fast and Furious aspired to be, but with cars instead of surfing. A very similar plot: a spiritual view of one's sport where a good cop befriends bad guys while undercover and good cop loses his way and original mission when empathizing with the enemy. In fact, the movies are so similar that you could actually switch Paul Walker and Keanu Reeves and never know the difference; their acting is so incredibly similar with the same speech inflections, same wooden acting and same almost "aw, shucks" personality. The difference is that "Point Break" does all this with a bit more class and less cheese.

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