5. Johnny Utah - Point Break
In
Point Break, Keanu Reeves plays an FBI agent named Johnny Utah who goes undercover as a "talentless, wooden actor." Wait, no. Is that right? Hang on: in
Point Break, Keanu Reeves plays an FBI agent named Johnny Utah who goes undercover as a member of a group of totally awesome surfers led by Patrick Swayze, who he believes are actually a group of notorious bank robbers who disguise themselves with masks as former US presidents. As Johnny immerses himself deeper and deeper into their group, he finds that he likes living life by their full-on adrenaline junkie mantra, and sparks up a friendship with Swayze's character, Bodhi, who he finds to be brilliantly charismatic and, like, totally far out, dude. The movie eventually culminates with near enough every one of these bank robbers getting killed, and a few innocent people, too, for absolutely no reason. The bank robbers have never killed anybody, and rob banks to "screw with the system" (as opposed for monetary gain). Point is, Johnny Utah should have just left this case alone entirely: he accomplishes absolutely nothing in his relentless pursuit. The fact that the Ex-Presidents have never killed anybody over the course of 30 bank jobs means that, despite their crimes, they're not
that bad - as soon as Johnny gets his dirty mits on the investigation, innocent people begin to get killed all over the place, including an FBI veteran of 22 years (as played by Gary Busey). Worst of all, there's one part of the movie where Johnny begins to believe that another group (who beat him up) are actually the Ex-Presidents, and with evidence to back up him, raids their house, which results in a number of completely unnecessary deaths. In the process, Johnny completely ruins an unrelated and massively important undercover investigation, by which an DEA agent was about to nab a big-time drugs kingpin. If Johnny had just stayed away from all this entirely, the Ex-Presidents would have continued to rob banks, sure, but banks are insured, and nobody was getting hurt. As soon as Johnny starts going above his head (and ignoring orders from top brass), the situation explodes and the body count begins to rise to ridiculous levels. And for what? Was it really worth tackling the case in the way that Johnny did? Absolutely not. What a jumped-up loser.