The 50 greatest gangster movies of all time
Does Kathryn Bigelow's high-octane, highly radical action-thriller technically count as a 'gangster movie'? On the one hand, Patrick Swayze's crew of bank-robbing surfer brahs are pretty much the polar opposite of mafiosi, and they operate in a completely different region of LA from the street gangs of Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society. But then again, they are highly organised, and live by a certain code of conduct – as Swayze's criminal zen master explains to Keanu Reeves' undercover FBI agent: 'If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price'. Anyway, we're counting it, because frankly, we'll take any opportunity to celebrate Point Break, one of the most rewatchable crime thrillers of the '90s, or any decade.
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