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Point Break review
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100% pure adrenaline!

"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 clichรฉ to clichรฉ, 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.



7/10
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Added by PvtCaboose91
16 years ago on 26 April 2008 13:08

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