With Busey coming through the front door pretending to look for his lost dog, two dopey FBI red shirts covering the back door, and Keanu hiding near the side of the house so he doesn't blow his cover, Bigelow slowly turns up the heat by cutting between the action inside the house and the anxiety of the team outside. When the FBI goes after Anthony Kiedis and the rest of his gang, mistaking them for the bank-robbing Ex-Presidents that have been terrorizing Los Angeles banks, Bigelow gets the chance to put on a master class in tension, action-movie staging, and dark humor.
In a warm-up for The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow stages one stomach-churning raid sequence in the film that points to her future as the undisputed champ of pulse-pounding, militarized suspense. Like in Road House, he plays a character with a zen-like quality who also has the capacity for brutal, throat-ripping violence. Has any actor so fully embodied every New Age truth at once? Watching him in Point Break is a bit like listening to an Enya song, staring at a crystal, and doing one-armed pull-ups at the same damn time. With his slicked-back hair, deadpan delivery, and, "Hey, you wanna check out my band Dogstar?" charm, Reeves is the perfect audience surrogate, bringing the viewer into both the macho world of the FBI and the mysterious realm of surfers with laid-back ease.Īnd then there's Swayze. Despite Reeves' reputation for vacant stares and lunk-headed line readings, his calming blankness brings a stabilizing force to Point Break.
They’re the ridiculous, over-the top monikers that require ridiculous, over-the-top performers to bring them to life - actors like Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, specifically. Johnny Utah and Bodhi: now those are movie-character names.
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