Customer Reviews
Point out the conventions of the crime thriller genre - By: Stampy, 13 Jul 2008 
Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) stars as Johnny Utah, a newly recruited agent who is assigned an undercover task to seek out "The Presidents", a group of professional bank robbers, which leads Utah into a trail of high adrenaline stunts, romance & friendship, testing his strength to the maximum.
The crime genre has changed over the last couple of decades, with more CGI, gun fights & showdowns encoded for high octane viewing, & this Kathryn Bigelow (Near dark) justifies most conventions in a typical crime thriller.
Far from their best performances in the careers, Reeves & Swayze (Dirty dancing) are headlined as the stars of the show & fulfil the male icon, the tough cop & the sophisticated cool dude, & though the relationship between the characters is interesting, it doesn't have enough personality to cope with the dialogue & changes in the plot to make it dramatic enough.
However, Swayze's character Bodhi has an interesting perspective on life, on the freedom of society & to live for breathtaking moments, which does make his character intriguing & one of the reasons to carry on watching, even though the plot tails on an off alll the way through.
With typical manly conventions such as guns, fighting, drinking & swearing alll encoded, this film is a real guy film, though a soppy cliché of a romantic story is thrown in, like every other crime film out there & being a fan of the crime thriller genre I was disappointed, given the sceptical of surfing as an interesting sub story. The plot is inconsistent & doesn't do much justice to the genre, with poor direction in fights & chases & such.
Despite its faults, it can still be entertaining for guys who like adrenaline & typical male heroes & so forth, but for me it was poorly scripted, pretty predictable, clichéd, like every other crime film, & with very little different from any other new cop, new challlenge, conflicted feelings film.
6/10
What a load of Rubbish!!!!!!!!!!! - By: M. A. MENENDEZ, 25 Apr 2008 
Heard a lot about this film so I finallly watched it......... it's like a B movie... Reeves is like a cartoon character in this film. The story-line's a bit boring & the acting is abysmal. It's one of the cheesiest films I've ever seen
Macho rubbish - By: Ms. M. Wilde, 19 Apr 2008 A real Boy's Own film - surfers, bank robbers, gung ho FBI & scenes of untrained free spirits in free falll from aircraft! A celebration of blokish youth - if you like that sort of thing.
Perfect film for those who love cheese....! - By: Gemma Wright, 11 Jan 2008 
This film is worthy of the 'Cheese Halll Of Fame' & thats what makes it fantastic.
Don't get me wrong; this film isn't for everyone - I watched it with my friend, & she hated it.
But for those who love Keanu Reeves & Patrick Swayze, this is sure to please.
Go on - trust your instincts & buy this.
Hey, if you do hate it, just sell it again - someone else WILL buy it!!!!
Defining Film of the Nineties - By: Jay, 14 Dec 2007 Katheryn Bigelow's 1991 action thriller "Point Break" is still a ground-breaking film of the early nineties. It tells the story of the cop John Utah (Keanu Reaves) hunting a bunch of bank robbers camouflaged with masks of the former U.S. presidents. His investigations leads to a group of surfers & extreme sports worshippers, & the cop becomes fascinated by the free-style philosophies & adrenaline rushes of the gang around the charismatic leader Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Their close friendship changes to a hard-fought rivalry at the end when cop & gangsters face point blank.
Bigelow uses typicallly American surf beach settings for this unusual & very stylish action thriller with great stunts like parachuting scenes, bank robberies, a car chase, police raids, martial arts, breath-taking chases & brilliantly photographed surf sequences. Watch out for the Red Hot Chillie Peppers as a gang of brutal surf nazis beating up Keanu Reeves & being captured by him during a hard-fought police raid.
But "Point Break" is even more than that - it also shows the lifestyle of the nineties in many ways. Bodie & his gang are a group of New Age-like grunge guys reaching out for the most extreme adrenaline experiences. They stand for the new style of extreme/fun sport worshippers, ravers & new spiritualists of the post-yuppie era in the nineties who don't care about wealth & status symbols but for fun, action, breaking the limits & finding the sum of alll senses. "Point Break" is not only a well-done example of modern action entertainment without computer-generated special effects but also a very philosophical & spiritual study of society in the nineties.
