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Point Break (1991)
So I'm watching The Matrix, and my mum, who's never seen it before, walks past and mumbles "Oh, Johnny Utah,". I asked what that meant and she said "It's a part-surfing, part bank robbery movie called Point Break,". Point Break. I heard of the movie before, so I found a copy for $9 and bought it on a blind buy. After 117 minutes of sky-diving, high octane madness, I got up and said "That was the most overblown, mindless and no-holds barred excuse for a movie,". Needless to say, I loved every moment.
Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Utah, a young FBI agent partnered with an over the hill burnout, who believes a gang of bank robbers, known as the Ex President, are surfers. Utah goes undercover to infiltrate a surfer gang to find who the Ex Presidents are.
The whole cast is fun to watch, as Keanu gets to say dude a lot, Patrick Swayze cranks up the charisma and Gary Busey, well, gets to be Gary Busey. The writing isn't Oscar worthy or anything, but does have a few good lines in it, especially the famous six words uttered by John C. McGinley. "You're a real blue-flame special. Young, dumb and full of come,".
The outlandish plot can be a bit much at times, but the excellent surfing and skydiving scenes redeem that, and there is plenty to still enjoy about it. It's better than Speed.
So I'm watching The Matrix, and my mum, who's never seen it before, walks past and mumbles "Oh, Johnny Utah,". I asked what that meant and she said "It's a part-surfing, part bank robbery movie called Point Break,". Point Break. I heard of the movie before, so I found a copy for $9 and bought it on a blind buy. After 117 minutes of sky-diving, high octane madness, I got up and said "That was the most overblown, mindless and no-holds barred excuse for a movie,". Needless to say, I loved every moment.
Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Utah, a young FBI agent partnered with an over the hill burnout, who believes a gang of bank robbers, known as the Ex President, are surfers. Utah goes undercover to infiltrate a surfer gang to find who the Ex Presidents are.
The whole cast is fun to watch, as Keanu gets to say dude a lot, Patrick Swayze cranks up the charisma and Gary Busey, well, gets to be Gary Busey. The writing isn't Oscar worthy or anything, but does have a few good lines in it, especially the famous six words uttered by John C. McGinley. "You're a real blue-flame special. Young, dumb and full of come,".
The outlandish plot can be a bit much at times, but the excellent surfing and skydiving scenes redeem that, and there is plenty to still enjoy about it. It's better than Speed.