Product: Point Break [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 4.0
A delicious slice of ripe early-90s cheese...
This one skims along wihtout missing a beat, happily aware of its own implausibilities. Possessing cliches in spades, "Point Break" somehow manages to walk a very precarious line--surviving, even thriving, in open defiance of its own plot holes and Keanu Reeves. Reeves takes a lot of heat for his acting ability (or lack thereof), but movies like "Point Break" prove that in the right circumstances, he can excel. No heavy thought required here--Reeves is right (dare I say perfect?) for the role of almost emotionally blank FBI cowboy Johnny Utah, while Gary Busey as his crusty partner stereotype (this guy in the FBI? Yeah, right!) also fits right in. "Point Break" is an engine disguised as a film, but unlike the computer-generated excesses of today, it actually delivers the consistent, almost effortless adrenaline rush that action movies should without numbing you with pyrotechnics and digital deception. One of the last really good action movies Hollywood produced.