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July 22, 1991: View Points:Cinema
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 22, 1991 The Colorado
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 65
CINEMA
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<p>By Richard Corliss
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<p> Pretty but dumb--the old refrain of a guy beguiled by a
woman's good looks, then crushed by her dullness. In these
enlightened days, such japes are saved for Dan Quayle. But they
could apply as well to a movie like POINT BREAK. No picture
could be handsomer. The camera moves with bold, often devious
assurance; action sequences are as sleekly muscled as the torsos
of the film's jock hero (Keanu Reeves) and surfer villain
(Patrick Swayze). Director Kathryn Bigelow has few peers at this
aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird,
beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI
agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow
often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly
abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary on
skydiving. So how do you rate a stunningly made film whose plot
buys so blithely into macho mysticism that it threatens to turn
into an endless bummer? Looks 10, Brains 3.
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