![]() “Do you think that taxpayers would like it Utah, if they knew that they were paying a federal agent to surf and pick up girls,” Harp snaps. One of the best interactions in Point Break is when Harp questions Utah why the investigation is stalling. He rarely gets credit for being so bonkers intense, even when he has no business being so irrationally crazed. I’m always drawn to over-the-top characters and Ben Harp is one of the best. How the hell did I even let you talk me into this whole bone-headed idea to begin with? Special Agent Utah! This is not some job, flipping burgers at the local drive-in! Yes! Your surf board bothers me! Yes! Your approach to this whole damn case bothers me! And yes! YOU BOTHER ME! And Pappas! Oh, for the love of Christ.If you knew that you knew nothing, then that would be something, but you don’t. Guess we must just have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh? What I don’t know is how you got assigned here. You’re a real blue flame special, aren’t you, son? Young, dumb and full of come, I know.Dollar for dollar, I don’t think there’s a better actor out there. McGinley plays FBI Director Ben Harp (great name) chews up the scenery like a bastard. There’s a villain named Warchild, Swayze looks like a SoCal god and a Lyndon Baines Johnson mask never looked so good.īest of all, John C. Everybody is so unbelievably cool in the movie that I was almost convinced I was watching a documentary. A reasonably sober Gary Busey is Angelo Pappas, Utah’s partner, and he is awesome. It’s about a rookie FBI agent named Johnny Utah trying to takedown a group of bank robbers nicknamed the Ex-Presidents. Point Break stars Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. I’d run sandwiches and wings over and they’d tip me either cash or movie swag.Īnd the best thing I ever got was a real-life Point Break movie poster. I was incredibly naïve because there was a time I thought working a Blockbuster was not just a good job but a career. But the best way to make an extra buck was to run food to the other business in the area-especially the Blockbuster. I’d bust my hump squeezing tip outs from the waitresses and bartenders. Being the lowest totem on the pole, I did everything in that club from cleaning dishes, mopping up puke, scrubbing bathrooms and looking the other way when drugs were being sold. ![]() I was working as a dishwasher at a dump in North Las Vegas called Gators. The summer before my senior year was a doozy. And if you’re lucky, you get to see a Point Break when you’re 17 years old.
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