Director Kathryn Bigelow
Staring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey
Rated M
Score 5/6

An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of bank robbers who may be surfers.

Okay on face of it, the 2016 release of the remake of Point Break is probably going to be nothing like the original, so be sure to check in for my review of it when it get released in Australia in a few days.

For those of you who don’t realise Point Break was Kathryn Bigelow’s fourth feature length film that she directed and she did a great job giving us what most feel is the spiritual father to movies like The Fast and the Furious. Despite its age Point Break seems to hold as best it can considering the dawn of the ‘extreme athlete’ might cause some people consider some action sequences to be on the tamer side (personally I feel the action sequences hold up) of the cinematic spectrum of action sequences especially considering that Mythbusters took the time to ‘Bust’ the Freefall sequence (though I have to wonder, do we always want to know if movie physics translates to the real world? Sometimes we just need to be amazed). On a side note you might be interested to know that in America Point Break was released July 12th 1991 a week before Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.
Though Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves didn’t phone their performances in (a common risk in most action movies) and Swayze was more than capable showing how charismatic a man Bodhi is. I feel that both Gary Busey and John C. McGinley gave the standout performances of the movie