Point Break
1991 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Synopsis
Twenty-seven banks in three years. Anything to catch the perfect wave.
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.
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Film #1 of @Drive - You Know what to do.
"Little hand says it's time to rock 'n' roll." - Reagan
From the very beginning of this film, an allusion that my friend and 'bro' had made came to mind. He frequently describes 'bromance' as being a 'Bromantic Poet', like the Lakists, who looked for sublime experiences within nature. And as Point Break progresses, it becomes increasingly about this idea: a bunch of pretentious dudes (or 'bros') in beautiful places do stupid stuff with nature and raw feeling to find out what life is about and other completely philosophical questions. I might be reading into it too much, but Point Break has a genuine poetic core and depth.
But, other…
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Yes, it positively reeks of cheese, has been justly parodied and has dated worse than most but I just don’t care because I am unapologetic in my love for, Point Break. It might be directed by a woman but this is no sissy chick-flick (although it is admittedly drenched in homoerotic tension), instead it is a muscular and testosterone fuelled action classic and one of my favourite films of the ‘90s.
Keanu Reeves, young, dumb and full of come, transitioned seamlessly into the role of the action star (and in doing so became the biggest of the decade) with his flat and monotonous delivery perfectly suiting a rookie agent infiltrating a gang of surfers who moonlight as highly skilled bank…
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Don't ask me why, but for some reason everytime The Ex-Presidents (seriously, they couldn't think of a better name?) were on screen, I kept thinking that it would be awesome if there was a movie where The Four Founding Fathers came back from the dead and started to rob banks and wear masks of themselves, like Washington wearing a Washington mask. If it doesn't happen, I'm seriously gonna make it! (If any of you steal my idea...I'm coming after you.)
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This has got to be the most awesomely badass cheesiest film to come out of the 90's.
It also has Keanu Reeves give easily the best worst performance he's ever given. -
Film #89 of The December Project
Things I love:
• Gary Busey
• Keanu Reeves yelling "NOOOOOO!!!!"
• That shouty and hilarious doctor guy from Scrubs
• Car chases
• Foot chases
• Surf chases (okay, those didn't happen, but there's lots of sexy surfing!)
• Beach football
• Shoot outs
• Dumb action movie logic
• A bleach blond and soulful Patrick Swayze
• SkydivingThings this movie has:
• All of the above.How could I not love this movie? How could ANYONE not love this movie? It's expertly paced, filled with interesting and lovable characters, it has wild and exciting set pieces, it has brilliant one-liners, and it has lots of angry yelling and panting. I'm positively…
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Scott Adcock takes the blame for this testosterone heavy re-watch. Piquing my interest with his review you forget how enjoyable this bromance action movie was.
Keanu Reeves (according to my wife) has never looked fitter than he does in this and although Patrick Swayze's beard still looks stuck on, Kathryn Bigelow's adrenaline fuelled epic still holds up over twenty years later. Featuring a surfing backdrop to a series of bank robberies,this pits Swayze's zen-like Bodhi against Reeves's F.B.I agent Johnny Utah. Bigelow's frenetic crime flick is a well paced and refreshing take on the whole cops and robbers genre with some thrilling set pieces and a chase sequence that influenced a host of other films especially the Bourne films. Hand… -
If you're not in love when Johnny gives his life story, you missed the wave. The wave of ridiculous awesomeness.
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Brash, dumb and corny... but so much fun you'll give it a free pass.
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I thought this was gonna be another cliched detective thriller but it turned out quite different, and enjoyable. Keanu is horrid as usual - Love Swayze.
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Film #1 of @Drive - You Know what to do.
"Little hand says it's time to rock 'n' roll." - Reagan
From the very beginning of this film, an allusion that my friend and 'bro' had made came to mind. He frequently describes 'bromance' as being a 'Bromantic Poet', like the Lakists, who looked for sublime experiences within nature. And as Point Break progresses, it becomes increasingly about this idea: a bunch of pretentious dudes (or 'bros') in beautiful places do stupid stuff with nature and raw feeling to find out what life is about and other completely philosophical questions. I might be reading into it too much, but Point Break has a genuine poetic core and depth.
But, other…
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Good, cheesy, quasi-philosophical fun. Kathryn Bigelow had already done better (Near Dark, yo) and would go on to become the Oscar-winning director of great films The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, but she stages the action here with her typical verve. In particular, there's a raid on a house full of gun-totin' surfer punks that's like a primitive version of ZDT's raid on the bin Laden compound. The surfer mysticism is pretty goofy, and stabs at depth with Keanu Reeves' FBI agent Johnny Utah don't quite work, but it all makes for a silly good time. As Bodhi, surf guru and possible bank robber, Patrick Swayze is obviously having a blast. This and Donnie Darko are tied for his best work.
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Cheesy and ridiculous but it's so much silly fun that I don't really care. Reeves + Swayze make a great pairing and when you add Bigelow's direction to the mix you get a perfect storm of macho adrenaline-fuelled excitement. Gnarly.
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Sokkal ezoterikusabb dologra emlékeztem, kár, hogy tele volt akcióval a vége – teljesen felesleges.
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This movie is AWESOME !
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I am reminded of Orson Wells when watching this film. His career began with making what many consider to be the greatest film of all time. There is no where you can go but down from there.
The same can be said about Katherine Bigelow. This may not have been her first film, but there is no denying she should have stopped after this one because you just can't top perfection.
A warning to anyone I meet in the future, please don't let me hold a gun because the first thing I will do with it is lay on the ground and fire my whole round into the sky while screaming.