Point Break

Plot synopsis:
Bank robbers who are surfers? The F.B.I. force can hardly believe that Agent Angelo Pappas is actually considering such a thing. But what do they care? He's probably gone loopy, he's old and washed up, unable to adapt to the new system of the F.B.I. So they ignore his theory, letting the notorious bank robbers "The Ex Presidents" rob as many
banks as they like. But Pappas can't believe it when a rookie Agent Johnny Utah is assigned to him! After all the kids a damn ex football player! How the hell is he suppose to solve this bank robbery case with this college punk by his side? But Pappas soon learns that Utah is a crack shot and he's also clever, and supportive of Pappas's mocked theory. Together they set out to get the elusive robbers, realising that sex wax was found at a previous crime scene and that the robberies only take place every summer. The robbers move with the waves.Utah goes deep undercover to find the surfers, meeting Tyler, a tough tomboy chick who can surf like a devil and is a very reluctant mentor as well. He says he's a lawyer and that his parents died, after learning from the F.B.I. system
that Tyler's folks are dead too, he uses this to soften her and get her to be his teacher. But is Utah ready for the world of surfers? An elusive sort of tribe that rides on the waves and lives for the eternal thrill of almost meeting their end? He gets tumbled by massive waves and the spiritual and manipulative surfer, Bodhi, Tyler's ex boyfriend, and the leader of a pack of thrill seeking hot head surfers. Utah gets accepted into their group, but as he becomes closer to Bohdi and his pals, he loses sight of their guilt and grows to care for Bohdi as a friend. He botches up an operation with a possible group of surfer suspects who are in fact crystal meth dealers. Through a mass of shooting, blood and naked brawling with two angry females involved with the punks, they learn that these guys aren't their culprits. And that an undercover DEA agent was infact trying to bust them on drug dealing after months of undercover work. As if this isn't enough to make Utah want to take a ticket out of there, he almost catches Bohdi on a mad chase scene on foot, after he stakes out to catch the robbers, but is unable to shoot him because he cares for Bohdi. He also injures his already surgery plagued knee from falling off a slope onto concrete. Pappas doesn't buy Utah's story of him missing Bohdi as he knows Utah is an incredible marksman.Later Bohdi and Utah go sky diving, but the surfer has something up his sleeve. His psycho friend Rosie is holding Tyler hostage after she finds out that Utah isn't a lawyer but a cop and runs off after holding Johnny at gun point. Rosie threatens to kill Tyler and the only way Johnny can save her is by helping The Ex Presidents in one last hiest. But Bohdi makes a fatal error, he gets greedy and goes for the vault, over extending their time and losing a crew member, as well as killing an off duty cop who tries to be a hero. Johnny is knocked out by a maddened Bohdi and left to be arrested by his own force! Mocked by the ass licking agents who are always on his & Pappas's back. They arrest Johnny and are disgusted with him killing a fellow cop, but Utah is totally oblivious to this, hating Bohdi inwardly like a disease. Pappas knows Utah acted like a jock strap and made a bad move by falling into Bohdi's trap. But he defends his young partner anyway against the arrogant pompous ass that is Agent Ben Harp, telling the smart ass that he was on the force when he was still popping his zits and jerking off to the lingerie section of the Sears catalogue. He then punches Harp and knocks him out, saying that he's also always respected his elders and that Harp should learn to too! Now the heat is on, as Utah knows that the only reason he got involved in the robbery was because of Tyler, but now it's become too personal, and Bohdi has gone way too far. But then again, how far is too far for someone as radical as Bohdi?Utah and Pappas go alone to where he and Bohdi first went skydiving, and this results in a massive shoot off and Pappas being blown away by the cowardly Roach, who also gets shot and bleeds out on the plane. They get Utah on the plane and claim that there's no more parachutes, and Roach leaps off saying he'll see Johnny in Hell. Johnny jumps after Bohdi though and in an adrenaline pumping scene he tells Bohdi to pull the chute or he'll blow Bohdi's
head off. Being fearless Bohdi says either way they die, and Johnny pulls the chute in a furious gesture of loathing for the other man. They land in the desert planes of an unknown area, Roach's corpse lies on the dusty ground and the money flits into the air with a green haze again the blue sky. Tyler is released by Rosie, and him and Bohdi ride off down the dusty track to where ever they plan to go.Years later, in Australia, Bohdi's prediction of the hundred year storm that would cause the Pacific to swell and produce huge ways, comes true. But Utah has been tracking his ex friend, and in the tumultous storm that the heavens spill upon the Australian coast, the sea swells and floods caused by colossal amounts of rain fall, we see Johnny again walking to the beach. Surfers retreat in droves from the beach, claiming that only a mad man would stay on the ocean in such a tremendous outbreak of fury over the sea. But Johnny knows one man who would, Bohdi, and he's come to collect him to be locked up at last. Bohdi is staring out to see, the figure of peace and in his eyes we see the hunger to ride those waves. Johnny breaks his trance and tells him that he's been tracking him
and Rosie for some time now. And that he finally got a break when he found Rosie's marred corpse in a bar after a bad fight. He says he feared that Bohdi would just vanish after that though, but he knew that he would never miss the hundred year storm. Bohdi says that its typical that Utah's here, and that he guesses that the agent has finally
got his man. He tries to escape though, almost drowning Johnny in the waves as they pummel each other, falling about in the greyish foam water of the sea. Utah handcuffs Bohdi however and tells him that he told the cops that Bohdi would go quietly. Bohdi begs him not do this, saying he'd die in a cage! Utah doesn't care anymore, it's time
that his compadre went down. In the end however, he lets Bohdi go and ride the ferocious waves that rise in terrifying heights like walls of water. Utah watches as Bohdi paddles out to his death as the water crashes into him. Utah stands in the pouring rain, his now long hair sopping and his eyes full of a strange sort of peace. The Australian policemen are livid that he let Bohdi go and say "We'll get him when he comes back in!" Johnny walks away and chucks his F.B.I. badge into the ocean, and replies, it seems, to the raging waves, "He's not coming back."

Tags: entertaining, cult, neo noir, murder, violence

Review:
For so many films the denouement is a gross failure but Bigelow controls the films peaks and troughs expertly and the ending is genuinely well handled, something that appears to be a real struggle for Hollywood today.In what will go down as Patrick Swayze's finest moment on film, he plays the adrenalin guru Bodhi with glaze-eyed and silver tongued expertise, and manages to pull off the very difficult assignment of being both sane and insane simultaneously with accomplishment.You can almost feel pulled by Bodhi's enthusiasm for a sensation 'as close as you get to God', and as a result can excuse the decade for being labeled that of the 'slacker' generation.
Keanu Reeves' character forms a complex bond with him and surfing culture to the point where it breaks his heart to have to bring him down.
This makes Point Break not a film of "bad guys vs good guys" but a real exploration of a subculture and how it gets inside people's heads.It help that this is also a kick ass, brilliantly shot action film, with incredible sequences like the foot chase through LA and the skydiving making it as exciting as it is thoughtful.
I must have seen this film a dozen times now, and I'm not going to stop watching it until I'm well and truly sick of it - it's just superb.Certain sequences are stunning - the camera work during the chase and free fall scenes leave you breathless, and the surfing footage is excellent.
Their close friendship changes to a hard-fought rivalry at the end when cop and gangsters face point blank.Bigelow uses typically American surf beach settings for this unusual and very stylish action thriller with great stunts like parachuting scenes, bank robberies, a car chase, police raids, martial arts, breath-taking chases and brilliantly photographed surf sequences.
Watch out for the Red Hot Chillie Peppers as a gang of brutal surf nazis beating up Keanu Reeves and being captured by him during a hard-fought police raid.But "Point Break" is even more than that - it also shows the lifestyle of the nineties in many ways.
Die Hard might be the greatest action movie of all time, but "Point Break" is not too far behind.
Keanu Reeves plays federal agent Johnny Utah(a role he was born to play) who is teamed up with a veteran federal agent Angelo played by Gary Busey to crack the case of the ex president bank robbers.
So if you are in the video store looking for a good action film rent "Point Break".
Surfing, car chases, bank robberies, foot chases, cool music, fist fights, gun fights, beautiful women, crazy characters, skydiving, kidnapping, breathtaking scenery, humor.This is the one movie that has all this and more !!
Some great performances by: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, and John Mcginley.
Bodhi and the gang are not cardboard cutout baddies, they are actual the kind of guys you wanna hang with ( for the most part!) Katheryn Bigelow brought both a slightly mocking, but also a great sensitivity to the relationships in this movie, that the turd of a remake completely missed.Lori Petty also was brilliant as the no BS surf girl.
Keanu Reeves as astute agent and Patrick Swayze as a thrill-seeker guru, help raise potential action-adventure story to a higher plane.
Keanu Reeves is his reliably wooden self as an FBI agent who maybe likes Patrick Swayze's bank robber/surfer character a little too much.
Reeves lets him surf off into oblivion because the movie is really about the love/hate relationship between these two space cases.All that aside, the story and dialogue is all nonsense and the acting ranges from adequate to bad tho Busey almost succeeds in making a character you could give a damn about.
I would recommend this movie if you want to watch an action film that, despite its best efforts, is a comedy.
There's not much else worth sayingno real plot to analyze, no impressive acting, just a really funny movie that almost all of those involved in the making of it would most likely want to forget (Mr. Busey being the lone exception; the man turns in another brilliant performance)..
Keanu Reeves is alternately placid and over-eager as the agent who befriends surfing guru Patrick Swayze, however both actors manage not to embarrass themselves (they're cartoonish instead of wooden, which is amazing considering these are not characters, they're writer's clichés).
Director Bigelow must be attracted to movies with blow hard desk sergeants who do nothing but bellow at their underlings (the Feds in this flick are just as ridiculous as the cops in "Blue Steel"), and she isn't kind to the one main woman in the cast (Lori Petty, whose sass initially substitutes for a character--until she's turned into a victim).
Paul Verhoeven found a good way to balance satire and excess in "RoboCop"; "Point Break" shifts the weight and topples over into the realm of such Verhoeven errors as "Starship Troopers" and "Showgirls." It's got that same sort of odd, over-done vibe seeing through every frame -- bright, vibrant colors, loud trashy music, and tons of gratuitous action, sex and violence.Keanu Reeves is one of the worst actors of all time.
"Point Break" has to one of the best action films of the early nineties and one of Keanu Reeves best films.Patrick Swaynze's also great in this film as well as Road House and many others.
Point Break is a very dumb movie, with characters making very stupid decisions, dialogue that ranges from decent to mind-numbingly hilarious, and some hammy, wooden acting.
Point Break is a good, classic, 90's action movie.
Point Break follows the obsession of FBI special agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) in catching four bank robbers who dress up like ex-presidents.
This soon becomes overshadowed by his obsession with surfing with Patrick Swayze and the love a woman who looks like a 10-year old boy (played by Lori "Tank Girl" Petty).
It succeeds on its effort of combining surfing with elements of crime and action, and mixing them into a solid, if flawed smorgasbord of excitement.Point Break is a prime example of a 90s action film done right, and a movie that is high recommendation for action fans everywhere.
It's a tale old as time...undercover FBI agent learning how to surf while simultaneously infiltrating a gang of bank robbers that like wearing masks of former Presidents during their heists and have a penchant for extreme sports.
This film follows his investigation and his relationship with Bodhi whom he admires for what he represents.This is Reeves and the late and great Patrick Swayze at their best!
Upon first glance and on the surface, this is a conventional action movie that manages to raise itself above the norm thanks to fantastic direction from Kathryn Bigelow, incredible stunts, solid performances from a set of A-list actors (both then and now), and several plot twists, all of which add up to make Point Break one of the better action movies of the 1990s.Keanu Reeves portrays Johnny Utah, a rookie FBI agent fresh out of Quantico who is eager to please and get his feet wet.
Utah's loyalties, ambitions, and emotions will be tested as he finds himself deeper and more involved in this seemingly innocent corner of the world where not everything, or everyone, is as it appears.There's quite a bit to like about Point Break for action/adrenaline film enthusiasts.
Keanu Reeves, before he was Jack or Neo, was Johnny Utah in Point Break, a role which put him on the map of action stars and paved the way for him to star in the biggest hits of his career.
Both actors are a natural fit for the film; everything from their appearances to their mannerisms and to their grasp of the underlying tones and conflicts of the story, not to mention their fantastic ability to put on a great show during the various action sequences, help set Point Break apart from other, lesser, dime-a-dozen action vehicles.
McGinley and Tom Sizemore in a cameo appearance.Of course, director Kathryn Bigelow's fantastic direction, eye for action, and keen sense of how to effectively weave a first-rate story is the foundation upon which Point Break is built.
Point Break reveals its secrets far earlier than most action movies do, both to the audience and to the characters, and this is perhaps the best aspect of the film.
All of this combined with its first-rate stunts and sequences (including two fantastic skydiving sequences, the first of which is easily the best sequence in the film thanks not only to its fantastic visuals but also due to the perfect placement of the exciting yet laid back music that accompanies it), Point Break is an action movie lover's delight..
Just watched this movie again, and while on the surface it looks like a stereotypical action flick, and in some ways maybe it is, I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed it.There were a few things that were a little contrived, at least for a "cop movie." I don't understand why the chief of police always has to be written as a jerk or why there is always those two arrogant cops that crack jokes all the time, etc.
Reeves penetrates a surfing gang who may be responsible for a series of bank robberies, and as it gradually dawns on him that they are indeed the culprits for whom he is searching he has to decide whether or not he can bring them to justice, having become a close friend of their spritual guru-like leader Patrick Swayze.The film benefits from spectacular moments, many of which are silly but all of which are enjoyable.
The term guilty pleasure first springs to mind, especially the moment when Gary Busey tells his young new partner, Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), that the people they're after- a group of bank robbers taking a signature of wearing President masks- may also be surfers.
It is as smart as its trying to be, and as fun as a noisy, violent R-rated action picture can get.Reeves, of course, is still in the form of getting his real star presence together, in the kind of role he would make much better with Speed and in of course in the Matrix, as a hot shot with as much ambition as (in Reeves fashion) charisma as he infiltrates the tight ring of surfers, led by Patrick Swayze and the pretty Lori Petty.
I think that "Point Break" has always been dismissed as a typical action flick, with Keanu Reeves appropiately playing an FBI agent undercover as a surfer, it does sounds pretty lame.
"Point Break" is one of a handful of films that I can watch over and over again, and one of maybe 2 or 3 that I can actually fall asleep to, in a good way of course.
The relationships seem real and believable, especially Keanu and Swayze, in the hands of lesser directors it all could of seemed silly and homoerotic, like "Top Gun", but although this is very much a macho film (as Lori Petty's character states "there is too much testosterone here") it has an understanding to it, all these guys, from the FBI to the bank robbers are all in it for the adreneline rush, the thing that makes them feel like men, that makes them feel alive.You know a film is great when it is often copied but never duplicated, like "Die Hard" or "Pulp Fiction".
I almost forgot what a pretty boy Keanu Reeves used to be.On the most superficial level, this movie is just your basic 90's action cop-thriller, this time with surfers and skydivers.It's a bit dated but still charming at this point, like something Key and Peele would spoof on their sketch comedy show.
This is the most insanely great movie I have ever seen!It has surfing, skydiving, bank robberies, a foot chase scene that you have to see to believe, and the bank robbers turn out to be surfers.
It is one of the greatest surfing movies ever filmed, and the skydiving scenes are awesome.Point Break stars Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.
It's realistic, not overly stylised, and it isn't all "Hollywood." It's original and much copied (Fast and Furious is almost identical) and I don't understand why it didn't do better in terms of awards and recognition.Point Break is a step away character-wise for Reeves, and was apparently a risk for Bigelow casting him as action-man and from the opening scene of "100% Utah!" he's action all the way and he does it well with a physicality that impresses.
Kinda slow and stodgy at the start-up, where character development is needed, and there is some action involving a bank robbery by 4 people wearing ex-presidents mask, but overall, despite the surfing theme, it's a pretty good movie...even if you don't surf.
Keanu Reeves plays a rookie FBI Special Agent Johnny Utah.A group of bank robbers mask themselves as ex-presidents (Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Lyndon B.Johnson).Utah's partner Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey) has a theory that those bank robbers are a group of surfers.Now Johnny has to go undercover as a surfer.But he has to learn how to surf first.So he gets help from a pretty surfer called Tyler (Lori Petty).Johnny befriends with this local surfer Bodhi, played by Patrick Swayze.But there is a chance Bodhi and his gang is behind the robberies.Kathryn Bigelow is the director of Point Break (1991).This is pretty excellent of a movie.The surfing scenes are cool.And so is the parachute jump.The chase scene after the bank robbery is neat.The team work between Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey works.And the same thing with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.And why not with Reeves dude and Lori Petty, even though the love story isn't the strongest sides of this movie.Other actors of this movie include John C.McGinley, who plays the slightly annoying FBI Agent Ben Harp.James LeGros is Roach and Lee Tergesen is Rosie.The troubled actor Tom Sizemore acts in a small part DEA Agent Deets.Also the Red Hot Chili Peppers guy Anthony Kiedis pays a visit in the movie.I saw this movie after a long time yesterday and it was great to see it again.Lately there has been talk about a sequel to the movie.It may happen in 2009.Not so sure if that's the best idea in the world but I would be fascinated to see that.It would be neat to see 'em ride the waves again..
"Point Break" is an Action - Crime movie in which we watch an agent of F.B.I. goes undercover in order to succeed on becoming a part of a very special team which consists of extreme sports athletes and especially surfers.
I liked the interpretations of Keanu Reeves who played as Johnny Utah the F.B.I. agent and Patrick Swayze's who played as Bodhi and he was very good at his role.
Another interpretation that has to be mentioned was Gary Busey's who played as Pappas and he was equally good at it.To sum up, I have to say that "Point Break" is a good action, sports movie in which you can find many good action scenes and good interpretations too.
POINT BREAK IS A MOVIE YOU GONNA LOVE.PURE ENTERTAINMENT NICELY CRAFTED,GOOD STORY AND ESPECIALLY ACTION AND STUNTS.I JUST WATCHED IT YESTERDAY AND I WAS NOT EVEN BORED FOR A SECOND.LOVED ITT....
Starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, this film appears to be a good and enjoyable as it has has been praised by fans.
A fun, thrilling story with some excellent surfing, skydiving and cool one liners.I guess this would be considered a classic now, following a very young Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah, a sharpshooting FBI agent who goes undercover as a surfer to stop a crime wave of bank robberies.
Point Break is an action crime movie directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
That is one of the cornerstones to the movie, surf, but there is much more: romance, crime and sacrifice, which made this film worth screening.A young FBI agent infiltrates a group of surfers he suspects of bank robbing but finds himself more involved than he would like, developing a complex friendship with Bodhi, the leader of the gang and falling in love with Tyler, the girl who taught him to surf.
This movie is an action heist film directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
It stars Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in the roles of Johnny Utah and Bodhi respectively.
In fact, if you don't watch closely enough, you may believe that most of Keanu's actions in the latter 1/3 of the movie are driven by his love for Lori.They're not.
Point Break was a box office hit in 1991 and with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves in the lead roles, along with cracking action scenes and spectacular adrenaline fueled cinematography, it's not hard to see why this film had the correct formula to still maintain its popularity years later.Keanu Reeves plays a former college football player turned rookie FBI Agent Johnny Utah who has been assigned to the Los Angeles Field Office where he is investigating a string of bank robberies by four men dressed as the Ex-Presidents (Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ronald Regan).
As Bodhi in Point Break, he oozes charisma and charm yet he has a wild streak about him going up against the system.Keanu Reeves as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah comes across as a grown up jock at first but you can't help but like him in his first action role he later becomes famous for with movies such as Speed (1994) and The Matrix (1999).Gary Busey has a reputation as an eccentric personality on and away from the cameras as well as garnering a well known reputation as the bad guy with movies such as Lethal Weapon (1987) and Under Siege (1992).
To sum it up, you have the star power of likable actors Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey as a sane good guy, breathtaking cinematography, exciting action, and for lovers of surfing, there is plenty of it.