![]() ![]() Dom’s sister Mia sees something she likes in Brian, too. After a blazing encounter with the ruthless Johnny Tran, Dom decides to take Brian (Paul Walker), a newcomer to street racing, under his wing. Plot: Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) enjoys the adrenaline of street car racing and his fans treat him like a rock star. Overall, after 30 years Point Break is still every bit as entertaining as it was back in 1991 with awesome characters, superlative action scenes and endlessly quotable dialogue. I wish Kathryn Bigelow directed more as she is one of the best action directors in the business. The score from Mark Isham is perfect and I especially love the music in the opening credits but the score works well for every scene giving a genuine sense of wonder during the surfing sequences. ![]() McGinley is at his best as Ben Harp who is one of the most shouty police captains in the business. Fender from Cyborg is the amazingly named Warchild (back off, seriously) and then we have Red Hot Chilli Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis as Tone. The set pieces are still some of the best you’ll ever see with stunning aerial photography and beautiful surfing footage there are of course, fights and shoot-outs too which is why it still holds up. He plays a good guy too and *spoiler alert* I hate that he gets killed off at the end. No good 90’s action movie was complete without Gary Busey and he has some great dialogue as Utah’s partner Pappas which we still quote today (Utah! Get me two!). Along the way Johnny meets and falls in love with Tyler (Lori Petty) which complicates matters as now he has something to lose if he is found out. Keanu Reeves plays FBI AGENT! Johnny Utah (awesome name) who goes undercover with some surfers to find out who the mysterious bank robbers known as the Ex-Presidents really are. To this day Point Break is one of my favourite movies and is up there with Speed as Keanu’s best action picture.īodhi is one of Patrick Swayze’s most iconic characters and the concept of an undercover cop who is beguiled by this criminal is a fun one but also provides some nice moments of tension. I was 13 when Point Break came out back in 1991 and I remember watching it alongside Predator 2 which was released around the same time. But when Utah falls in love with a female surfer, Tyler (Lori Petty), who is close to the gang, it complicates his sense of duty. They’re surfers - led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) - who are addicted to the rush of thievery. But this is no ordinary group of robbers. Plot: After a string of bizarre bank robberies in Southern California, with the crooks donning masks of various former presidents, a federal agent, Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), infiltrates the suspected gang. So rather than just looking back at Point Break I decided to do a versus and see which is the better film. I never bothered with the remake but let’s be honest it was already remade in 2001 and called The Fast and the Furious. This week is the 30 th anniversary of the action classic Point Break starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |