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(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
Number one seed in the west so bad they’re good movies tournament: Point Break.
Point Break is a sublimely absurd action flick starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey.
So, Keanu Reeves plays FBI Special Agent Johnny Utah (no, I’m not making that up), a former all Big 10 defensive back who didn’t make the pros due to a knee injury. Gary Busey plays the plantonic ideal of the grizzled-veteran-who’s-upset-to-have-to-train-a-damn-rookie stereotypical cop character.
If you guessed that Johnny Utah’s knee injury reappears at an inopportune moment, you’ve been watching too many bad movies. Give yourself a gold star.
Bank-robbers known as the Ex-Presidents are giving our FBI heroes fits. Barging into banks wearing rubber masks of Nixon, Carter, Reagan etc, the Ex-Presidents have pulled off a series of heists.
Busey notices that one of the ex-Presidents has a tan line, leading Johhny Utah to go undercover as a (real stretch here) surfer to find them out, leading to the following confrontation:
In this scene, Johnny Utah chases Ronald Reagan after a robbery. Unfortunately, this clip starts after Ronald Reagan (Swayze) has used a cigarette lighter and a gas pump as a flamethrower, and has some random song imposed on it. Nevertheless, you will see what has got to be the greatest a pied chase scene ever:
Point Break has Johnny Utah jumping out of a plane without a parachute in a fit of rage and even Ronald Reagan throwing a bulldog in anger, and the authorities killing the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But most of all, it has the best Keanu-rific line delivered line of all time.
Now, in most Keanu Reeves movies, there is at least one line delivered with laughter inducing awkwardness. One of the brilliant things about The Matrix was that the Wachowski brothers made no effort to suppress the insuppressable, and instead brought on the Keanurific moment on purpose: I KNOW KUNG FU.
Sure, there are other candidates for greatly awful Keanu lines. In Something’s Got to Give for instance, Keanu tells Diane Keaton You smell good. I knew you’d smell good!
Point Break however takes the prize. In the priceless finale Swayze is captured by Johnny Utah, handcuffed on the beach, preventing him from going out to commit surfer suicide on the most bitchin’ wave of all time. Johnny explains:
YOU’RE GOING DOWN!!! IT’S GOTTA BE THAT WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Swayze then begs Utah into letting him off himself like a true SURFER-ZEN-DOOFUS, crushed by the super tsumami. Johnny’s FBI badge washes away in the tide, roll credits.
But did Swayze actually die? Believe it or not- there is a sequel planned.
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Loved Point Break!
Guilty pleasure. I gotta admit it; that is one movie that whenever it was on basic cable I got sucked in. Loved that movie.
“Utah, get me two.”
No doubt about it- it’s a keeper.
I thought the photo was of the AIG take-over. : )
That second video is unavailable. 😦