Product: Point Break [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
Fast-paced action suspenser
The plot revolves around an undercover FBI agent who infiltrates a group of surgers and skydivers believed to be responsible for a series of bank robberies. The film contains some attractive locales, a great deal of masculine posturing, some fast-paced action and one hair-raising, unforgettable foot-chase sequence. The use of a hand-held camera (which reflects the unrest and tension of the situations and characters) creates a suitably gritty effect. Smartly directed, it is also enlivened by a touch of humour (the robbers enter every bank wearing the masks of Presidents; one robber, brandishing a gun, exits the bank and cries out at the cowering hostages, "Don't forget to vote!")