Review of Point Break

Point Break (1991)
1/10
hang ten, dude
25 January 1999
I simply have no choice but to give Point Break a "1" since it came so close to sending me into a winter-long hibernation. Such horrendous acting, such a horrendous plot, where do I even start? Keanu Reeves, though I enjoyed his performance in Braham Stoker's Dracula, is at his all-time monotonic worst here, with lines like "No! It's time for you to go down!" or something silly like that. I guess you have to be one of those people who considers surfing a "way of life" to appreciate this movie. But then again, even surfers had to laugh at Patrick Swayze's assertion that he had "lived his whole life" for the chance to catch that absurdly gigantic tidal wave at the end. The only thing memorable about the film is the Ronald Reagan mask, and that should say it all about the futility of Point Break.
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