Old cardboard-chops Keanu emotes, like, big-time, dude, as an undercover FBI agent in a surfer's paradise. Your tolerance for Kathryn Bigelow's stylish action-flick probably depends on how you react to Reeves' character name: Johnny Utah. Yes, it's all quite silly. Gary Busey and "The One" are surely the thickest law-enforcers to ever flash badges and tote guns, but this is still the only Patrick Swayze movie you should even dream of watching.
DVD Extras:
Original theatrical trailer. Bigelow's critique of male-bonding and bullshit machismo is simple-minded at best and outlandishly stupid at worst, but if looks could kill, this one would have you on a respirator. Despite the great visuals the DVD is the standard hatch `n' dispatch job, with a particularly dodgy-looking trailer and plain old stereo rather than Dolby.
