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