Hackneyed

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2001)

Although decent, this movie was better the first time I saw it back when it starred Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and was named "Point Break". To quote my friend, "Undercover cops? Asian Gangs? What is this, the 80s?"
Basically, this movie appeals to the MTV crowd which needs to be stimulated every few seconds by bright lights and loud noises in an effort to maintain their short attention spans.
There were several glaring errors in this movie that led me to believe that it was written by a film student who tried to take his spice up his loser adolescent years by trying to portray the teenagers who put thousands of dollars worth of rims, subwoofers and the like into their $500 car. I'm sorry Mr. Writer sir, but this hackneyed movie does not justify your youth, back when you worked for minimum wage and later spent it on a new muffler.
First, truck drivers are union and the merchandise is insured. Therefore, drastic measures are not needed to rob trucks. Have you ever seen "Goodfellas," when Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci robbed the truck? Although my memory is fuzzy, I can be sure that they did not use harpoons.
Second, a Ferrari will never race any tuned car. I know people who have Lotuses, Porsches, and Corvettes, and they refuse to race them. Why? Because by virtue of owning an expensive sports car, you already showed the person up.
The list goes on (including the fact that the actors are in their mid-twenties, and the people who actually do this kinda stuff for fun usually mature out of it by the time they hit 19.)
But there is one positive: The movie had a good ending, even though it was a rip-off of Point Break. In fact, if A.I. had an ending half as good as Fast and the Furious, I wouldn't have wanted to vomit on my new shoes.