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- <text id=91TT1638>
- <title>
- July 22, 1991: View Points:Cinema
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 65
- CINEMA
- Board Stiff
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- <p>By Richard Corliss
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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