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Overall Rating
4.16

Awesome50%
Worth A Look: 20.45%
Average: 27.27%
Pretty Bad: 0%
Total Crap: 2.27%

1 review, 38 user ratings


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by spork-girl

"The main character is 'Johnny Utah.' You have been warned."
3 stars

NAKED CUTE MEN! Oh, and the red hot chilly peppers.

Keanu is not the surfer dude in this one. He is an undercover FBI agent trying to infiltrate a group of surfers they believe to be the "ex-presidents" bank robbers. And who leads the surfer dudes? No one but the reigning "most beautiful back in the world," Patrick Swayze.

Although not a terribly goiod movie, in fact more silly and over the top than anything, i feel it is wortth 3 sporks because hot guys romp around half naked or in wetsuits. Gary Busey (whom I always thought was Nick Nolte until his recent tour of talk shows) and the Chilly Peppers a re in it too. They amde the movie worthwhile for me because I always wanted to see them get shot. The funniest part of this movie is the violation of the universal "one stupid name" rule. It dictates that only one character per movie can have a stupid name. Here, Patrick plays "Bodhi" (he got on that buddhist train early), but Keanu plays, haha: Johnny Utah. Mwuahaha. Ahem. Sorry.

The movie is average in a lot of ways, esp. in the fact that it really caters to the lowest common denominator, as in "since surfing footage won't hold the audience long, we'll throw in guns and skydiving too." I personally was perfectly happy seeing the stars halfnaked and engaging in the ultimately cool activity: surfing. But they don't listen to me...

And the result is a mediocre movie I can only really reccomend to men-deprived women like myself. 3 sporks.

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User Comments

6/01/08 Cliff Lewis A fun brainless romp Swayze and Busey almost make up for Reeves pathetic performance. 4 stars
3/03/08 Charles Took me 17 years to see this...I should have waited 5 stars
7/28/07 William Goss Macho and moronic in equal measure. Good action, bad acting, worse dialogue. 3 stars
6/11/07 al smith great underatedfilm one of the coolest films around 5 stars
1/24/06 Michael Good movie ... no ending ... empty 3 stars
8/26/05 ES This was easily one of Keanu's better movies, Busey and Swayze kick ass no matter what 4 stars
5/07/05 Vince Filled with adrenaline: surfing, bank robbing, sky diving. What the fuck more do u want? 5 stars
3/16/05 Pete fraud WOW!!!!!! 5 stars
2/05/05 Jeff Anderson A no-brainer in the best sense. Keanu & Patrick are well matched & the action never lets up 5 stars
12/19/04 paul The best bad movie of the era 5 stars
11/11/04 iloveswayze i love swayze and all... but whats with this holier budhist crap? hes a toal poser in this! 1 stars
9/15/04 R.W. Welch Has an uneven tone to it but second half is watchable. 3 stars
1/10/04 kaz it RAWKS!! 5 stars
1/07/04 seos2k great film , great feelings 5 stars
11/30/03 john great energy campy good action and surfing- a great guilty pleasure! 5 stars
10/26/03 rory i loved this movie. great 5 stars
3/03/03 Jack Sommersby Dumb-cum action flick is just too energetic to let you down. 3 stars
3/19/02 Dave MacDougall Die Hard it aint....buts its "worth a look" for sure. 4 stars
12/02/01 Paco Underrated, very entertaining 5 stars
8/12/01 Monster W. Kung Entertaining, but the action sequences are just plain unrealistic and overblown. 3 stars
2/28/01 Euniko It's a great movie! Very entertaining, and Keanu is awesome in it! 5 stars
2/05/01 Egg36 LET'S GO GET THESE GUYS!!! Oh god this movie is hilarious. 4 stars
1/09/01 Keanuette Keanu as FBI ~ Genius! He's so hunky and adorable in anything!!! 5 stars
12/12/00 Amy's Bitch Greatest effort in film fucking ever 5 stars
9/22/00 angie lee I went skydiving after seeing this flick! 5 stars
8/09/00 Bender Pretty entertaining if you don't think about it too much. 3 stars
6/06/00 Nique Great 5 stars
4/19/00 Salix An excellent one 5 stars
3/31/00 Arnaldo Cruz great action sequences and a good ending 5 stars
12/01/99 natalie hogan This is a great movie for escapist entertainment. 5 stars
11/10/99 Locotexan Deceptively brilliant, fully imagined. Really. 5 stars
6/28/99 Big Mister Awesome - see it! 5 stars
4/21/99 lucas jackson this was a great movie,dead president bank robbers,no keanu reeves please fuck he sucks 4 stars
3/27/99 Rob Mckechnie Surfing,Skydiving,Violence,Mindgames and Spirituality = one cool fucking movie. 5 stars
12/08/98 Lord Of The Dunce A guilty pleasure. Don't we all wanna be Keanu? 4 stars
9/27/98 Johny An assload of false endings, but a good action flick 4 stars
9/15/98 Badass The photography and action rocked! 4 stars
9/08/98 Young Einstein For a Keanu film, this really didn't suck. 4 stars
IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS FILM, RATE IT!
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