![]() Keanu Reeves will never be compared to Marlon Brando or Robert De Nero, but he is perfectly fine here, playing well opposite both Gary Busey and Patrick Swayze and his relationship with Tyler (Lori Petty) has real chemistry. This review is of the 2003 re-release and not the original disc released in 2000.Ĭonclusion I would never have bought this DVD if it wasn`t for `Hot Fuzz`, (nor would I have a Japanese `Peace Lily` in my bedroom!) so my thanks go to Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg for piquing my interest in this fine `buddy` movie. The premise of `Point Break` is a fairly typical one: a rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang, to crack the case, but finds himself more involved than he, or anyone else, bargained for. Like Reeves, Bigelow`s career was in the ascendancy after directing the brilliant 1987 vampire film `Near Dark` and was clearly trusted to make another action genre movie, after `Blue Steel` the previous year. Gary Busey was a reliable character actor who had previously worked with director Kathryn Bigelow on her student film `The Set-Up` and plays the hard-nosed FBI agent perfectly. Patrick Swayze was an established romantic lead having starred in `Dirty Dancing` and `Ghost` and was therefore cast against type, playing Bodhi, the surfing bank-robber living on the edge. Keanu Reeves was not the A-lister he is now, mostly being known for playing `Ted` in `Bill and Ted`s Excellent Adventures`, so casting him as a rookie FBI agent was bold. In 1991 the big hitters were `The Silence of the Lambs`, `Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves` and `Terminator 2`, which all cleaned up at the box office. Since then, however, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright paid homage to it in `Hot Fuzz` and so bought it when I saw it for under a fiver. ![]() Introduction Up until last week, I hadn`t seen this film for well over 10 years, when it was on TV.
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