With Kathryn Bigelow’s much-anticipated true-life drama Detroit about to hit theaters, Screen Junkies decided to shift the spotlight to one of her earlier films. So this week’s Honest Trailer offering targets Point Break, the 1991 action movie that went on to become a cult classic.
The film was Bigelow’s first major studio film after Blue Steel and Near Dark. It was originally to have been directed by Ridley Scott, and had Johnny Depp and Charlie Sheen attached to it at one point. However Bigelow eventually took the reins when Keanu Reeves was in place as the lead character, with Patrick Swayze as his nemesis. The plot was pure action pulp with Reeve’s rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah investigating a string of bank robberies being committed by surfers, meaning he had to go undercover to infiltrate that laidback community overseen by Swayze’s Bodhi. The film initially had mixed reviews, ...
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