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"Point Break" (1991) is a movie about the borderline between law and adrenaline. Director Kathryn Bigelow presents the exciting world of extreme sports and the underworld. The main character, FBI agent Johnny Utah, embodied by Patrick Swayze, plunges into the dangerous underground world of surfing to track down a gang of radical criminals committing robberies wearing masks of U.S. presidents. His partner is the kinetic agent Papa Roach, played by Keanu Reeves. Exciting scenes of surfing, parachute jumping and motorcycle racing are accompanied by intrigue, betrayal and sudden plot twists. "Point Break" is not just an action movie, but a vivid embodiment of the spirit of freedom and boundary-seeking in an adrenaline-charged life.

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Thirteen years on it sounds a little trite - an FBI agent examines his inner self whilst trying to bring down a gang of surfer bank robbers by infiltrating their scene. But dude, how Point Break pulled this off!

In what can now safely be regarded as one of the more generation-defining cinematic moments of the nineties, Point Break serves as not just a credible well-paced action thriller spectacle, but also as a voice for advocates of the adrenalin rush. The movie's sleeper popularity at the time would no doubt have helped issue in a new generation of 'X' sports for a new generation, as hungry sponsors leapt at a new market.

Kathryn Bigelow takes some key pointers from then hubby James Cameron and paces the movie brilliantly. There are many key moments of unique action - that chute-less jump from 4,000 feet being the highlight - that filled the trailer, but it is the cumulative effect of bringing these moments together that adds to the picture. For so many films the denouement is a gross failure but Bigelow controls the films peaks and troughs expertly and the ending is genuinely well handled, something that appears to be a real struggle for Hollywood today.

In what will go down as Patrick Swayze's finest moment on film, he plays the adrenalin guru Bodhi with glaze-eyed and silver tongued expertise, and manages to pull off the very difficult assignment of being both sane and insane simultaneously with accomplishment.

You can almost feel pulled by Bodhi's enthusiasm for a sensation 'as close as you get to God', and as a result can excuse the decade for being labeled that of the 'slacker' generation. The nineties weren't about slacking, just looking for a different kind of high.