Product: Point Break [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 5.0
KOWABUNGA!!!! (Forgive any misspelling)
Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves, before the days of SPEED and THE MATRIX) is the newest FBI agent and is already working on his most challenging case. The "EX-PRESIDENTS" are a clan of dudes who rob banks under the mascara of Reagan, Nixon, and others. Utah's new parner Pappas (the legendary Gary Busey, legendary partly for the fact that he always dies; I won't reveal the chances of his survival here) has clues that point to the beaches for the identity of the robbers, because the "EX-PRESIDENTS" are surfers. Utah must go undercover as surfer to infiltrate the robbers, and soon develops a "friendship" with the most spiritual surfer ever, Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Did I like it? Of course. There's action, romance, and some very unanticipated comedy. Busey delivers the best and funniest line in the film, "28 robberies, and what do we get? One ----ing hair!" Reeves and Swayze are great together, especially in a scene where they are just minding there own buisness and get in a fight with four NAZI dudes, or in the bit where Reeves jumps out of plane with no chute after Bodhi. It's all pure escapist with no connection to reality, but escapism is what action movies are all about, and POINT BREAK has enough escapism for 3 movies.