Point Break
1991, R, 120 min.
D: Kathryn Bigelow; with Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey.

For a while, Point Break rides the swell of an amphetamine rush: It’s a movie that’s going places. Bigelow stages the film’s action sequences with a brutal efficiency (they almost redeem the movie), but she can’t keep the increasingly silly script in check.

**½  

This article appears in July 19 • 1991 (Cover).

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Steve Davis has written film reviews for The Austin Chronicle off and on since the early years of its publication. He holds a B.S. degree in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas, and a J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law.