Karyn Kusama on POINT BREAK

Kathryn Bigelow's first commercial hit is a visceral surfing/heist thriller that takes its title from the moment when a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. Under such earlier titles as Johnny Utah and Riders on the Storm this was originally conceived to star Matthew Broderick and Charlie Sheen, with Ridley Scott directing. Bigelow's Hawksian take on the material became a huge cult hit.

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trailers from hell and I'm introducing
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stars as Johnny Utah um a FBI agent who

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stars as Johnny Utah um a FBI agent who
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is on the hunt for a gang of masked bank
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discovers is that they're most likely
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across the coast and then down into
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in words I personally feel like this is
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one of the best action films well ever
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but certainly of the 9s and it manages
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to be both Sublime and ridiculous with a
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complete sense of commitment complete
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conviction and I think that that's part
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of what makes it so enduring now and so

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of what makes it so enduring now and so
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incredibly watchable this is a movie
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that once I start watching it I can't
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stop watching watching it part of it has
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dialogue that manages to feel both real

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dialogue that manages to feel both real
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and over the top of the same time but
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somehow that's just an incredibly

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somehow that's just an incredibly
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entertaining cocktail and I think it's
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of how the action is shot and cut and

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of how the action is shot and cut and
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there is a quality to the film that

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there is a quality to the film that
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captures the genuine tension between
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and a live by the book sensibility I
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love this movie I could watch it every 6
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