8/31/2023 0 Comments Point break 2021The decision is begrudgingly made to hurl Utah into the deep end of the world of curls, board wax and over usage of the world “radical” and the young agent has to learn to surf in order to infiltrate and discover the identity of the Ex Presidents.įinding an in in the form of Tyler, a sarcastic waitress who agrees to give him some much needed pointers, Johnny eventually meets Bodhi, a tremendously charismatic surfer who employs a no-shirt policy that would make Matthew McConaughey thump his chest who Utah is drawn to due to reasons beyond the fact that they have noticably absurd names…Īs Johnny gets deeper and deeper into a lifestyle that sees him reach a sense of inner peace that being a virtually perfect agent who is described as being “young, dumb and full of cum” so far hasn’t been able to give him. The gang is professional, disciplined and Pappas is convinced – due to random evidence that his superiors openly sneer at – that the gang are most likely members of the surfer culture that’s gripped the coasts of California. Rookie Federal agent Johnny Utah has just been assigned to assist crusty, veteran Angelo Pappas in order to crack a string of armed bank robberies perpetrated by a masked gang known as the Ex Presidents. I am, of course, talking about Point Break – arguably one of the most aggressively 90’s movies ever to run through a projector, but have all the references to surf culture and the sight of a cameoing and braided Anthony Kleidis from The Red Hot Chilli Peppers dated one of the greatest actioners of the early nineties? This brings us promptly (and possibly riding a surfboard in slo-mo that’s almost pornographic) to Katherine Bigelow’s infamous deconstruction of machismo in the form of a blistering thriller that throws in bank robberies, parachute jumping ( without a parachute) and countless uses of the word “bro” with no sense of restraint whatsoever. However, if you think we’ve got it bad, spare a thought for movies and how they remain a frozen, perfect snapshot of the time it was made, shitty fashions and long dead fashions and all. Time catches up to all of us sooner or later and whether we care to admit it or not, most of us will grow to recognize the ever changing world around us less and less.
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