Customer Reviews
POint Break - By: Brendan O. Clarke, 30 Aug 2008 
Point Break is one of the quintessential rewatchable movies of the past 20 years. It's a safe bet that Point Break would be in my fav movie list. Released just before the mid-90's surge of super-advanced special effects that yielded such super-terrible movies as Twister, Independence Day, & pretty much anything involving the "Jerry Bruckheimer" production stamp, Point Break is nothing short of B-movie heaven, with alll the familiar trappings thereof: rampant overacting, testosterone-laden dialogue, a series of highly implausible occurrences, & men determined to resolve everything with violence. It's fast-paced, deliriously stupid, & just suspenseful enough to keep your eyes glued to the screen.
At the same time, Point Break succeeds because its heart is always in the right place. Sure, it doesn't have the huge budget & nifty effects that characterized so many of the Hollywood blockbuster released in the past decade or so, but Point Break did manage to boast a plot & characters that were at least somewhat believable & well-developed, to go with lots of skillful direction from Kathryn Bigelow. And, of course, you get one completely iconic line from Keanu Reeves : "I am an EFF-BEE-EYE Agent!". His career was alll downhill from that one, let me tell you.
Even the name of the hero is likably improbable: Johnny Utah (!)ha Jesus, played in slightly-less-wooden-than-usual fashion by Keanu Reeves in his pre-Speed days..
Check out the sexual chemistry between Bodhi & Johnny Utah. "Utah, you want me so bad its like acid in your mouth." Both men fight each other, wrestle in wet suits & sky dive together.
-Shootouts, fistfights, chases, a gratuitous car explosion, surfing, & skydiving: everything you could want in an action movie, & more!
-An ideal sunday afternoon would be to have a copy of the 'Big Wednesday' & 'Point Break', & 2 bottles of red wine. Tremendous.
