- Language: English, Spanish, French
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin Chinese
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0016MOWP0
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #71,345 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One Of The Best Action Thrillers Of All Time,
By Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Point Break (Widescreen) (DVD)
Before "Speed", before "The Matrix" or any of a half dozen other memorable films that Keanu Reeves has been in, there was "Point Break". For sheer action, adrenaline, and quick thrills, nothing compares to this cops and robber movie set in the surfer sub culture of southern California. Keanu Reeves plays a young FBI recruit (Johnny Utah) on his first assignment, and lands in the middle of a bank robbery mystery that has been unraveling for several years. A group calling themselves the Ex-Presidents, and wearing outlanding disguises as Ron Reagan, Dick Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, have successfully been looting area banks, so far without shooting or killing anyone. Reeves' older partner, played masterfully here by Gary Busey, confides to Keanu that he believes the bank robbers are surfers, who hit banks to support their wandering lifestyles, following the waves. Suddenly the stage is set for a masterful cat and mouse game between Busey and Reeves on the one hand, and a group of surfers led by Patrick Swayze, on the other. The movie has everything, from gloriously photographed scenes of surfing to outrageous action sequences which are choreographed so memorably that they become the coda for the movie. There are several exceptional chase scenes, including one that is run by foot through yards, houses, and streets. In the end, it is a powerful allegory regarding the meaning of contemporary life and the rules we all try to live by, but in the meantime it is also a hell of an entertaining ride on the rollercoaster that Reeves and Busey have to ride in pursuit of the Ex-Presidents! "Surfers rule, I swear to God". Hahaha. Inside joke that you'll understand after viewing the film. Enjoy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the most enjoyable movies of the last 15 years,
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This review is from: Point Break (Widescreen) (DVD)
C'mon! Some of you dudes are, like, taking this flick waaaay to seriously, man. This is a great movie to put in if your bored or high and nothing's on tv or if your with some friends and you don't feel like going out. Instead you get a six pack, a pizza, turn the lights off and pop this movie in. The absolute most enjoyable thing about this movie is its complete indefensibility. How can anyone possibly defend a movie in which no five straight minutes are the slightest bit believable. But that's the genius of it. At every even slightly crucial point in the movie, the plot demands that FBI Special Agent Johnny Utah (Reeves) make the stupidest decisions, the most incompetent blunders and display the most irresponsible and morally wrong behavior humanly possible in a member of law enforcement. If he wises up at all, he figures out who the robbers are and sends about two dozen black and whites over to their home and the movie's over in about a half hour. Pretty anticlimatic end, huh? Rather, its about three quarters the way through the movie that the obvious occurs to him. Second in his class at Quantico...riiiight. Instead, we get two hours of surfing, skydiving, bank robbing, stunts, fistfights, gunfights, hot babes, one-liners and chases. Personally, I prefer all the running around to the realistic ending. Don't you?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
You know I hate to say it but...,
By TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Point Break (Widescreen) (DVD)
..."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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