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like woah dude, totally radical!
this is a comic book of an action movie, however, seeing point break as a teenager, it doesnt seem to be the case. you really think that people have fire breathers at parties, that cops can go undercover for special work-related surf lessons, that keanu reeves is cool, and so on...as an adult who knows better this is just totally illogical, i mean, radical fun.
the performances are actually really well done. patrick swayze seemed to especially lose himself in the roll and from what i've heard is or was an actuall adrenaline junkie at that time any way. he really does come off as some sort of surf guru by day/criminal at night type jeckyl and hyde character. gary busey is always way out there and is a fun sidekick for the dumb-as-rocks keanu to play off of. on that note, i never liked reeves acting. even in parenthood where he was supposed to play a bumbling retard, i was still disgusted by his lack of creativity toward such a stereotypical character. in point break he is supposed to be ice cool as SECRET AGENT JOHNNY UTAH! who has a monumental epiphony when he goes on a "stealth mission", or to us land-dwellers, night surfing that is. this special moment is realized when lori petty's character caresses his face and claims he looks like he's...well, it's such an enlightening moment i dont want to spoil anything. in reality it looks like he just got hit over the head with a surf board. which seems to be the case, stealth mission or unstealth mission.
the action moves along nicely. the movie never takes itself too seriously, even when minor characters drop like flies (you pretty much forget busey gets blasted with a shotgun to the back) the film never cuts to a crying in the rain type scene set to lonely piano keys. the bank robberies are fast and fun. the beach house parties are wild. the free fall scene is very well done and believable all the way through (you dont even question wether or not you can have a conversation while plummeting to the earth at a couple hundred miles mph).
mike nelson of mst3k and rifftrax shares my dislike for mr. reeves and if you do as well i highly suggest downloading the comedy commentary from rifftrax.com to properly enjoy this classic action flick!
as last note, keep an ear out for the dialogue. there's some real gems.
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Hello! From Argentina! :)
Hello! I Purchased This Item Even That I Bought the First Edition of this
DVD Many Years Ago, But, I Could Make a Gift With the Old Version Because
This is a Good Movie that Unfortunality Was Never Released Here in my
Country, So, The Transfer is Excellent and the Only Thing that Always i
Ask and I Don't Understand Why, Is that the Extras Have No Subt. So, Even
I Speak and Talk in English, My English, As U Can See, is Very Poor, So,
That's I Put a Minus Star in Rating this Item, But, Buy it Anyway! :)
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"Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it?",
Well if that means producing one of the great action flicks of all time starring Keanu Reaves, Gary Busey, and Patrick Swayze then yes, ironic and sick.
This is one of those impossible to rationalize, but impossible to look away movies. (Suspend all belief here.) Swayze as Bodhi, is the mastermind of the Ex-Presidents, a bank robbing, curl shooting, skydiving crew of funsters devoted to getting their Zen on and chillin between heists while contemplating the ultimate wave because as Patrick says "surfing is the source man." Reaves plays an ex-jock rookie Johnny Utah FBI dude that is paired with the dinosauric out of shape Pappas played frenetically by one the all time goofballs Gary Busey.
Almost instantaneously, Utah develops a theory that the ex-Presidents are surfers, so he springs into action, buys a surfboard, meets a chick who tries to teach him to surf, gets his butt kicked by the singer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Cyborg "War Child", gets rescued by Bodhi, is invited to join the crew then is swept into a modern day Beach Blanket Bingo with machine guns. Along the way, Bodhi undergoes this sort of existential man love for Utah, then all hell breaks loose. If you haven't seen it yet I wont ruin the ending for you but its a pulse pounder.
This edition features much improved 5.1 audio over the original release, but honestly I cant tell any difference in the picture at 720p, but the extras are interesting for fans which include a number of throw away deleted scenes, interviews with our 3 stars, and some more snippets about surfing, spirituality, and an insiders tour of surfing Malibu plus 3 trailers. Strap it on. 4 Masks
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The Best Action Movie Ever Made
This is the most suspenseful and over all entertaining action movie I've ever seen. Another good heist movie is Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition).
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"Jab a vein for it"
Good re-release. The extras are the only real difference from the original. The surfing and adrenaline extras where particularly good. I would have like to see more on the skydiving personally. I have met a few of the people that worked on that film,Tom Sanders in particular and it would have been nice to see more on there side of the movie.
