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I had no idea when I ordered this movie that it was such a rouser.

Katherin Bigelow's early hit

Point Break (1991)

I figured it for a surfer movie. Which it is. But then it has so much more. And more.

I knew that it was hard to come by. I waited months, unprecedented, for the DVD to become available on Netflix. It still has not.

Then, I decided I would check it out to buy a copy. It has been a long time since it came out. Most films of this vintage go cheap.

Not this one. $45 dollars and change!

So I got a used one. $5.99

Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze battle to the end. Reeves an undercover FBI agent, Swayze a surfer dude with a taste for even more excitement in bank robberies.

I can't tell a lot about it without a spoiler. The surfer/robbers wear president masks. How odd to see Reagan robbing a bank. Well, not, actually.

The writers have packed this with scene after scene of chase, surf, more chase, more surf. The surfing footage is extraordinary. I don't miss a surfing movie but I have rarely seen anything like this. Unsustained.

Then there is sky diving where Swayzey does all his own work.

There is some side story. Gary Busey is great as Keanu's partner. Lori Petty the love interest.

Bigelow went on to even more heart pounding films but used a lot different ways of getting the result. This film is classic chase, chase, chase.

The robberies are pretty good too. We see a lot.

What is so attractive and perhaps makes this the cult film that it has become is the bond between the stars. They have got "it" whatever it is. To the end. Which is also the biggest wave.

Now that I own it, I will definitely watch this again. It is worth watching the close calls which seem quite real. There are a couple of featurettes about the stunt men. It is really their movie.

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