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Summary: You know I hate to say it but...
Review: ..."The Fast and the Furious" did this story a lot better.Maybe it's just the fact, you know, I can't take Keanu Reeves serious for one second. Even in the first "Matrix" (which I liked) when he looks at his fist and says, "I know Kung Fu!" I have to laugh. It's because his voice on permanent skater-dude mode! If they had made ten more "Bill and Ted" movies he would have been made for life. Now you might think, "But this is a surfer movie! His accent makes his character accurate!" Yes it would...if his character was SMART. Let's take a look at the record for our hero: bundles a raid, gets his partner killed, lets his girlfriend get kidnapped, lets fellow officers and agents get killed, and - to top it all off - spends the whole movie with Patrick Swayze gang's and doesn't figure out until an hour and a half in that it's THEM robbing the banks! It wouldn't have bugged me so much except the writer's act like it's such a big secret. "Tee hee! They'll never guess this! I better spend a lot more scenes developing the relationship between Keanu's and Patrick's characters to make sure there's no possible way at all that Swayze could be the bank robber!" And then of course there's the classic hero-villain honor thing. You know, the whole, "Oh, even though you tried to kill me on numerous occassions, tried to kill my girlfriend, shot my partner in cold blood, killed many other innocent people, and generally broke a lot of federal laws...I'm going to treat you like my best buddy." Yeah. Right. Hand me by barfo-bag, please.
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Summary: Great action and photography
Review: Patrick Swayze has to be the star of this show although Keanu Reaves plays a major roll. Reaves plays Johnny Utah, a newly recruited FBI agent who is assigned to work with a partner: Gary Busey. Reaves want to catch "The Ex-Presidents", four bank robbers who wear masks and have never been caught. Busey thinks they are surfers and convinces Reaves of this belief. Reaves goes undercover posing as a surfer without much success but eventually realizes who they are: A group of guys led by Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Bodhi is a super cool guy who is a great surfer and very charismatic, even to Reaves. But Reaves has a job to do. And busting these guys isn't going to be easy. The action in this show is superb. Great surfing shots, but the best has to be the skydive near the end. The bank robbery where Bodhi and his cohorts discover who Reaves really is has a great chase scene where Bodhi narrowly escapes from Utah (Reaves). This show keeps picking up more and more momentum till the very end. A show you will probably want to keep and watch more than a few times. Reaves and Swayze are believable in their parts. The second skydive at the end depicts two extreme personalities, each trying to out-daredevil the other, but not by design.
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Summary: the movie with the ban robbing presidents
Review: Keanu(Neo) is a undercover cop who investigates a robbery done by people who dress up in ex-president masks and the clues follow to the man he gets close to, a surfing frizzy haired Patrick Swayze. Point Break breaks into good action with some great surfing and a tubular cast man. Neo knows how to surf those waves. the wave at the end is monstrous. for diehard Reeves and Swayze buffs
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Summary: Very satisfied!!
Review: first of all, this title has a DTS audio format. It maybe attracts you. Because the story is about surfer and surfing.
the sound is very important, i think.
anyway, if you have seen this movie before and like it, you should have this title. the sound and clear screen will make you happy and satisfy.
and you'll see what the "100% adrenalin" is.
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Summary: Man's search for meaning is now over. Thanks Bodhi.
Review: This is probably the greatest movie of all time. Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze face off with such intensity, charisma, and chemistry that you'd think that these roles were written for them eons ago by gods up on Mt. Olympus. Well, dude, they were. Although Point Break is fascinating on many levels, it works extremely well as a metaphor for the Cold War. Bodhi and his gang represent the Soviet Union, who threaten the United States (Johnny Utah) with their liberating ideology of robbing banks to finance an endless summer. As a parallel to Marxist revolution as it generally existed in the Third World, Bodhi's anti-establishment surf rhetoric was indeed backed up by force--his goon Rosie represents the Red Army, or the KGB or something. Johnny Utah is quite effective as the United States, going to any extreme (learning to surf, etc.) in order to crush his enemy. Interestingly enough, however, Johnny gets a little bit "too deep" with Bodhi's gang, and for awhile mirrors the Carter administration's policy of peaceful coexistence with socialist sattelites (Nicaragua). This doesn't last for long, however, when Gary Busey's Pappas (Ronald Reagan) convinces Johnny that he needs to bust the ex-presidents. Tyler (Lori Petty) plays the unfortunate role of the victimized Third World. The two superpowers, Bodhi and Johnny, are forced to use her as a "proxy battlefield" in order to avoid the mutually assured destruction that would certainly happen if they met head on. In the end, the overwhelming force of Utah's defense spending (the FBI budget vs. Bodhi's crumbling Marxist/Bank Robbery economy) forces the ex-presidents to break up, and Bodhi dies a death that is infinitely more poetic and beautiful than that of the USSR. Thank You.
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Summary: Exhilirating, Artistic, Great Entertainment
Review: "Point Break" is Bigelow at her best. It has wonderful artistic moments ,with the waves used by the villainous surfers, as well as a group parachuting scene with the hero and villains all holding hands in a circle in the air. The actors are well paired with both Keanu Reeve as the hero FBI agent who learns how to surf to catch the ex-Presidents bank robbers. Patrick Swayze, in his best role, plays a guru philosopher surfer who heads up the bank robbers, wearing a Ronald Reagan mask during the armed robberies. The bank robberies by the 4 surfers in their ex-presidents' masks verge on the hilarious. The final surfing footage with Swayze and Reeve in Australia is breathtaking. "Point Break" is well worth owning. Writer-director Kathryn Bigelow was a very talented painter before she went to film school to become a movie director. It shows in her work which is very artistic for someone primarily known to the action-adventure genre of filmmaking. She is a breath of fresh air in this genre, investing it with literate scripts and haunting imagery. Her most frequent producer is James Cameron (the action wonder king, "Titanic," "Terminator"), who is also her ex-husband. You can see his influence on her work as well.
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Summary: In answer to your question about the song
Review: This is in response to the question of "what song were they playing on the beach". The scene I believe you are talking of is when they are playing football, correct? That song is "smoke on the water", a techno-rock type cover of the original done by deep purple. You should just get the soundtrack it's on there, it's a great soundtrack!! I've always loved this movie and the soundtrack.
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Summary: Whats that song???
Review: Does anybody know what the song is called which is played while they are all playing soccer on the beach??? Thanks
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Summary: Simply a terrific action movie !!
Review: Don't waste your time reading this ... You are much better off getting your own copy of this great(!!) movie !
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Summary: KOWABUNGA!!!! (Forgive any misspelling)
Review: 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.
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