Amazingly ridiculous.
Agree with Katharine. So much fun for me, but if you’re looking for serious insight, you may want to watch something else.
Surely a little of both, but more amazing (than ridiculous) every time I’ve watched it.
The footchase represents some of the flat-out best action filmmaking ever.
Yes, the action sequences are fantastic but the script is….amusingly awful.
Swayze, Lori Petty and Gary Busey are all competent but Keanu – oh the humanity!!
An entertaining action film that doesn’t try to make unnecessary attempts at transcending its genre. The film is a product of its times and a surprisingly entertaining one even with Keannu’s attempts at ruining it: “I AM AN F.B.I AGENT!” lol. Probably Swayze’s best performance, he brought a lot of believability to the role.
“…doesn’t try to make unnecessary attempts at transcending its genre”
Although I think it’s pretty awesome and worthy of merit that no sooner has the movie fully exhausted the rush of extreme surfing footage than it shifts gears to the even more extreme sky-diving footage. Such an incredibly simple uping-of-the-ante that it’s genius.
Great action film, for all the reasons mentioned. It holds up extremely well. It always hit me where I lived because I have the same knee injury as Reeves in the film.
“WAS POINT BREAK AMAZING OR RIDICULOUS?”
Yes.
—PolarisDiB
a masterpiece.
certainly better than the hurt locker (which is a rip off of Haditha)
and almost a masterpiece.
One of the greatest action movies from the 1990’s.
watched it recently for nostalgia reasons but it failed to live up to my oen hype (I grew up with movies a LOT since seeing it last lol)…it’s no NEAR DARK that’s for sure…
It’s pretty much the most predictable movie you could ever watch.
After some careful consideration, I think I’m going to have to watch Point Break and Strange Days. End of the millennium involving head contraptions reminiscent of Brazil? Definitely strange. It looks like what Southland Tales wishes it would’ve been!
Also, since this year’s Oscars awarded ‘90s-era nostalgia, I have to mention that The Net is also noteworthy. That film totally sold me on Sandra Bullock. One of the lines in the trailer is where can i hook up my modem, LOL. And FYI, Jeff Bridges voiced one of the characters in The Last Unicorn, my most favorite animated film EVER, along with Alan Arkin and Mia Farrow. But then, of course there is also Tron! Yet another film for my unmanageable queue. Ok, I think I’m done geeking out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaXPx6xWEQ
“The Net”? That’s not even in the same ballpark as “Point Break”.
ERIN ANADKAT
Yay for Kathyrn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker! That film indeed had wonderful directing and editing. But does it really compare to Bigelow’s depiction of “tough dudes doing their thing” in Point Break? I have to rent that. Maybe.