Until I went to RIfftrax riff of POINT BREAK, I had never really seen the film since it originally opened. I never thought much of it and never went back.
Watching the film again for the first time in decades I realized why I had never gone back, it’s not very good. The story of a hot shot ex-jock who became a lawyer, joined the FBI, gets partnered with a renegade agent and seeks to take down a team of surfing bank robbers is now a cliché of sorts. Its been ripped off and parodied to death. It feels like its been cobbled together from parts in a closet.
How or why any of this ties together makes zero sense. There are plot holes that the Grand Canyon could get lost in. Things just happen-because (Jump out of a plane- twice? Sure why not. Do it with the guy who is trying to arrest you? Absolutely). That Reeves is an FBI agent at the end is a head scratcher.
That people were upset about the film being remade a few years ago is a head scratcher. I mean people were upset that they turned a turd ball into a bigger turd ball.
Even the action isn’t that good. Even allowing for 33 years of advances in film techniques, its still not good. It’s a mix of over edited moments (The house gun fights) or things a half a step slow (everything else).
Clearly this connected with people that 33 plus years on we are still talking about it. I have no idea why- more so since so many better films from the same time are lost to time
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