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October 23rd, 2026 \u00b7 2:30am BST <\/p>\n
All it takes is one role to change an actor\u2019s career forever, and Keanu Reeves<\/a> found his at the perfect time. Three and a half decades later, he\u2019s still dining out on it, as he should be.<\/p>\n Even though he\u2019d already been in River\u2019s Edge and Dangerous Liaisons, playing one-half of the titular duo in Bill & Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure came with the serious risk of typecasting. Since Reeves was so good at playing someone with little between the ears and puppy-dog enthusiasm, everyone assumed that was him.<\/p>\n That said, he\u2019s never really been able to shake the misconception<\/a> that he\u2019s an airhead away from the cameras, and following the film\u2019s success, almost everything he was offered was in a similar vein. Kathryn Bigelow had different ideas, though, with the director having a sneaking suspicion he could be an action hero.<\/p>\n He could, obviously, and he\u2019s since gone on to reaffirm himself as one of the genre\u2019s most iconic leading men in titles like Speed, The Matrix, and the John Wick franchise, but none of that would have happened had Bigelow not gone out on a limb and cast him as a man too young, dumb, and full of cum for his own good.<\/p>\n \u201cShe had this idea I could play Johnny Utah,\u201d the star reflected. \u201cIt changed my life.\u201d It changed a lot more lives than that, too, in a roundabout way, because ten years after Point Break was released, another picture came along that never officially admitted where its influences came from<\/a>, but it was clear to anyone with a pair of eyes what was going on.<\/p>\n A young, ambitious police officer goes undercover to infiltrate a band of thieves, led by a charismatic figurehead. Not only does he strike up a romance with someone close to the crew, but he finds himself becoming increasingly sympathetic to their cause, with the flourishing bromance forcing him to choose between professional obligation and personal feelings.<\/p>\n Is that Point Break or The Fast and the Furious? The answer is both, and Reeves knew it. \u201cYou can almost say that without Point Break, you don\u2019t have The Fast and the Furious,\u201d he mused. \u201cThey\u2019re connected, aren\u2019t they, in terms of action?\u201d They\u2019re connected in many more ways than that, with the plots virtually identical from start to finish, even if the rip-off fared exponentially better in the long run.<\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n Point Break didn\u2019t get a sequel, but it did get a remake, which was shite. Fast and Furious, meanwhile, spawned nine sequels and a spin-off, with one last feature on the way. So far, the franchise has earned over $7 billion at the box office, and that doesn\u2019t even include the rest of its revenue streams.<\/p>\n There are multiple TV shows in the works, plus video games and theme park attractions, turning a movie that was loosely based on a magazine article but was otherwise a Point Break plagiarism in every way<\/a> into one of Hollywood\u2019s most lucrative money-making machines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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