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Summary: A RIPPING RIDE!!
Review: I can remember going too see this film,with three mate's,we laughed and made snide remark's about how bad this movie would be,we left this movie not speaking,until one of us said what we were all thinking,"You know what?,I thought that movie rocked!".
Oh,how right my friend was,this is a pure B-grade action movie that "ROCKS".
Keanu Reeves play's ex-football jock turned young hotshot FBI agent John Utah(gotta luv that name)who is teamed with a world weary agent played brilliantly by Gary Busey as they try and hunt down a bank robbing gang known as the Ex-Presidents.They believe the gang is made up of surfer's using their ill gotten gain's to finance an endless summer chasing waves.
"Utah" goes undercover amongst the local surfing fraternity and meet's Bodhi(Patrick Swayze)a "Zen master" surfer looking for the ultimate ride.
This movie work's because it doesn't pretend to be anything else but comic book action with a few hot babes(Lori Petty)thrown in.
Check this movie out,switch the brain off,hang loose and enjoy a great action movie.
Rating: 
Summary: Top 20
Review: Of the thousands of movies that I have seen, this is in my top 20. Reeves is about the same as he is in other movies, which is fine by me (some people abhor his "lack of acting skills"). It is the story that I am interested in and none of the actors detract from it (which says something positive about the actors).The transfer is of good quality. With a fair amount of action, there were no apparent compression issues.
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Summary: picture freeze
Review: Just like Arie Socorro, I had the same problem on the picture freezing on that particular chapter. You have to skip to the next chapter to get it going. Other than that this movie is great
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Summary: Pay FULL PRICE to only see 40% of the movie !
Review: I loved "Piont Break" ever since the day it came out in theatres. I own it on the VHS but it was not Widescreen. When the DVD came out I thought how great it would be to finally see this film the way it was meant to be seen, Widescreen. But when I got the DVD I noticed the horror of what has been done to it. This version is NOT Widescreen, it is not even the cropped version we saw on the VHS. The picture is just CUT even further and added with "black bulks" on top and bottom to CHEAT the Widescreen effect. The picture is so much CUT DOWN that sometimes it's not even clear what is going on. Buying this DVD is like paying to watch only 40% of the film. This is bad, SHAME on the people at FOX HOME VIDEO. Don't buy this DVD....seeing it like this is going to ruin the experience and this great film. They should make a real Widescreen/Especial edition to do the justice that this great action film deserves.
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Summary: Not What I Expected!!!
Review: I'm a die hard fan of Ms. Bigelow's films, specially this one. I've been expecting it's release ever since DVD's been out!, but for starters: there's not even an animated menu, the extras are nothing but trailers, especially that 3 minute featurette, they don't even mention or show anything that's really something you could call a featurette. And also, when I reached chapter 10 that dual layer pause just freezed!, I passed then to chapter 11 just so that I could scan back to chapter 10 and then my DVD freezed completely. I sent Amazon my comments, and I got another DVD. To my surprise that same thing happened again and again. If someone has the same problem as me, please let me know so that the guys at Fox replace us with our money. Anyway, besides that, the flick is still great!
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Summary: Thumbs down!!!
Review: Fox Home Video messed up again... Like they did with their European release of Point Break released a year ago. I am a huge Point Break fan and I know this movie by heart.. I know every detail. So when I bought the DVD I thought something was missing, so I dug out my old Point Break on VHS ( 4:3 format )... NOOOO !! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE !!! THOSE INCOMPETENT.... They had actually cut approx. 1/3 of the movie format by adding black lines to make it look like Wide screen enhanced... Again... Like they did with the European version. Do NOT buy this crap!!! If somebody at FOX reads this, Can I please have my money back?
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Summary: cropped, vhs-scan ...
Review: I'm a Point Break fan. It's one of the best "bad" movies out there, so I was pumped when it finally came out on DVD. Unfortunately, it is a total ..... Everyone loves to watch their favorite movies in letterbox, because it gives you the opportunity to view the full movie as opposed to the scan made to fit the VHS format. In the case of Point Break however the letterbox format was achieved by cropping the top and bottom off of the vhs scan. So, not only do you not get the full feature film, you don't even get the VHS view of the film. It's claustrophobic. There are scenes in this DVD that don't even makes sense, parts of people's faces are cut off. DO NOT BUY THIS [junk]!!! The picture is sharp, but it's like watching the movie through a keyhole!!!
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Summary: I caught my first tuber today sir!
Review: Movie Summary: Johnny Utah hurt his knee in the Rose Bowl and then became an FBI agent. He goes under cover as a surfer to try to bust some bank robbers. He is helped along the way by his veteran partner and a surfer chick. My Opinion: What does 5 stars mean to me? Basically it comes down to did I enjoy it and how much. If I enjoyed it a lot and had fun or was completely moved then it's 5 stars to me. Now there are going to be a lot of different 5 star movies. Point Break is a fun lighthearted 5 stars compared to a movie like To Kill a Mockingbird which is a classic 5 star movie that deals with some heavy issues. With that out of the way, Point Break is a lot of fun. DVD Quality: Widescreen anamorphic - 2.35:1, Dolby Digital and DTS Sound. Trailers and more. What You Should Do: You know you want it. Just buy it. Go ahead. You need it.
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Summary: Guilty pleasure
Review: Bank-robbing surfers: if that theme doesn't define "Hollywood concept", I don't know what does. Though the film does try to make a case for achieving a personal balance, and even attempts to throw some "philosophy" into the mix. "Point Break" may be yet another action film, but if you look just below the surface, there's a tiny bit more there. And the surfing scenes are awesome. The story is simple: Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Utah, an FBI rookie sent undercover to infiltrate a band of L.A. surfers who stick up banks while wearing rubber masks of Reagan, Nixon, Carter and Johnson. Utah is determined to bring down these ex-presidents; he's just that kind of dude. When Utah learns of his new partner's theories about the robbers being surfers, he goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing subculture to get a bead on the thieves. There's something about [director] Bigelow's visual style that really does a great deal to engage the viewer. Overall, the film tries hard to be more than what it is, and you have to give it credit for that. "Point Break" is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio. While this is not the finest transfer ever, it does look pretty nice. Fox has released "Point Break" as close to bare bones as you can get without actually being bare bones. The only real extra is a 3 ½ minute featurette that is really little more than a glorified trailer with a few interview clips thrown in for good measure.
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Summary: A delicious slice of ripe early-90s cheese...
Review: 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.
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