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Actors: Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Point Break |
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An FBI agent goes undercover as a surfer to catch a group of bankrobbing surfers. He finds a local surfer girl, who just so happens to hang out with the the robbers, to teach him to surf. Throughout the course of their teaching and learning they fall in love.
The agent infiltrates the surfers, gains their trust and joins their gang. After helping them rob a bank, the agent now has enough evidence to arrest them.
However, before he can do anything, the gang finds out who he is. They kidnap his girlfriend to blackmail him into helping them make one last score before escaping out of the country.
The agent helps them rob another bank. They board a plane and skydive out, landing in the desert, to meet a getaway driver.
After a hard landing the agent is injured and unable to pursue the robbers, but his girlfriend is released to back to unharmed.
The agent catches up with the gang leader in Australia, where he'd planned to ride a huge wave.
Knowing that there's no way he'll survive the ride, the agent allows the surfer to go out and catch one last wave.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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A cop investigating a series of bank robberies is sent to infiltrate a group of surfers, who might be the bank robbers.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Point Break |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 25%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 45%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- stolen goods organization
- robber
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
- (man) long, like a girl
Body type
- muscular (man)
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- a criminal organization
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) long girliemon hair
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- California
Water?
Yes
Air?
Yes
Air:
- parachuting
- parachuting w/o parachute
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 ()
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- drowned
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- A lot of foul language
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