Ken Benton

Disappointing. Convoluted plot of FBI agents searching for a bank robbery gang suspected to be LA surfers, so FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) goes undercover as a surfer to find the robbers. Lots of gratuitous violence. Johnny and the FBI team have a shootout with surfer criminals he thought were the robbers but turns out they are drug dealers. An undercover DEA agent unloads on Johnny because he was verge of busting drug ring and finding their dealer, but Johnny's raid ruins the invtestigation. Johnny finally tracks down the surfer bank robbers, but they hold Johnny's girlfriend as a hostage so he reluctantly goes along with them on a bank robbery, where a cop dies in a violent shootout. FBI agent turned relucant participant in an armed bank robbery? We learn the surfers rob banks to support their surfing lifestyle. But how many robberies are needed to support the low-cost sport of surfing? In the final scene of the FBI agent chasing the robbers, Johnny's FBI partner Angelo (Gary Busey) shoots a robber twice in the chest, but inexplicably the robber manages to get up and shoot Angel several times. But the most absurd scene to come is when Bodhi (Pareick Swayze) is jumping off a plane to escape and Johnny (with NO parachute) jumps out of the plane to go after Bodhi and magically manages in mid-air to attach himself to Bodhi. When they land on the ground, Johnny handcuffs him while the FBI arrives. Bodhi has killed Johnny's FBI partner and a number of innocent people along the way and committed mutiple bank robberies, but Johnny decides to release Bodhi from the handcuffs so he can kill himself in his final surf of a huge wave? In summary: too much violence in a nonsencial plot.