Product: Point Break [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
Fun & Hot
If you like Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, and can allowyourself to suspend disbelief in order to enjoy same in varieties of undress & wet suits, you will like this movie! I'll never understand why someone always has to be called "Johnny" in these movies, and all of Swayze's compadres offer nothing but distracting cannon fodder, but there are some really enjoyable moments: (1) Keanu doing his impression of himself as Ted Logan w/ surfboard in hand, (2) all the heros' interactions with the uptight FBI AIC:;, and (3) the still-waters-run-deep eruption into anger when Keanu realizes his girlfriend is in trouble & he can't help it (see the same look on his face as when Dennis Hopper has Sandra Bullock wired with explosives in "Speed"). There are also quintessential iterations of tried-and-true movie formulas (1) the not unmoving Florence Nightingale scene (Lori Petty swabbing Keanu's beaten brow), (2) the nobly injured hero a la every Mel Gibson movie (Keanu's messed-up knee), (3) the hero chasing moving cars on foot (again a favorite of Gibson), (4) classic dialogue about "adrenaline", (5) dumb euphemisms for "I love you." In all, it's a great, beachy, fun film, and Keanu and Swayze are both plenty hot to keep it interesting. END