Reeves starred alongside Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty and Gary Busey in the action thriller Point Break, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. He plays an undercover FBI agent tasked with investigating the identities of a group of bank robbers. To prepare for the film, Reeves and his co-stars took surfing lessons with professional surfer Dennis Jarvis in Hawaii; Reeves had never surfed before.[51] Upon its release, Point Break was generally well-received, and a commercial success, earning $83.5 million at the box office.[52] Reeves’s performance was praised by The New York Times for “considerable discipline and range”, adding, “He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanour that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles”.[53] Writing for The Washington Post, Hal Hinson called Reeves the “perfect choice” and praised the surfing scenes, but opined that “the filmmakers have their characters make the most ludicrously illogical choices imaginable”.[54] At the 1992 MTV Movie Awards, Reeves won the Most Desirable Male award.[55]
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