POINT BREAK (1991) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

After that terrible remake, the original Point Break still reigns supreme and should be top of everyones watch list…it’s got Swayze and Keanu in it!

This is a great movie in the ‘undercover cop, blurred lines of loyalty, who am I?’, genre of movies…that's probably a genre.

This movie is 90’s surfer dude culture all the way! Chuck a few orange filters on this bad boy and you’d think it was fresh out of the Michael Bay playbook.

This is Swayze in top form – fresh off his success in the girly classic ‘Ghost’, he must have been itching to get back to being king of the lads again. No problems here…LAD!

And what a name - ‘Bohdi’ (chefs kiss)

Hey Bohdi dude, wunna goew catsch suum waaaaves broooo?’…maybe Keanu had a hand in penning this one. He did ‘Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey’ the very same year, so he would have had his eye in.

Sorry, that suggests Keanu has another gear. Reeves would be good to go on this one anytime, anywhere. Roll camera!

So Keanu plays Johnny Utah (chefs kiss…amazing!) and is sucked into the spiritual world of soul-surfer/bank-robber Bohdi. It’s a massive contradiction…whatever.

But Bohdi knows that regardless of your spiritual journey...there's bills to be paid up in this piece! So him and his mates rob banks. Job’s suck.

As Swayze fills the head of the FBI's finest with quasi-spiritual nonsense the two grow closer and closer blurring the lines between Johnny’s job and his new passion; doing surfing. 

Speaking of passion, the woman who Reeves falls for looks like a female version of himself. This film has layers it never even tackles.

She's meant to be interesting and challenging and not just some token love interest...but it’s 1991 so that’s not really allowed…she looks like Monica from ‘Friends’ that documentary about a group of people in New York.

At some point in the movie surfboards get traded for parachutes, and everyone starts dying in bank robberies and Reeves and Swayze spend lots of time doing poker faces and not letting on that they now both know the truth but are not willing to admit to it, thus destroying their perfect summer…seems like Swayze did do back-to-back romantic movies after all.

When Bohdi drops in on that last monster wave, he immediately stacks it and loses any credability he built up in the movie. We’ve all been there.

There’s no way I can handle a cage man!

8/10