Point Break

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'Point Break' Writer Explains Why Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

The 'Point Break' ending did include a scene Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze reshot, but they didn't change the film's conclusion.

He got to keep his ending about the samurai code, and the movie got one more big action scene. “Swayze had gone off to do City of Joy, a Roland Joffe film where he played a doctor and cut his hair short. He explained his original ending to Point Break and why it required a reshoot with Reeves and Patrick Swayze. What gives away the reshoot the most is how different Reeves and Swayze look. “They shot it and Larry Gordon, it was his first film at his new company Largo and said, ‘I need a fight,’” Iliff said on Script Apart. “And we’re like well, it’s this thing with honor. Screenwriter W. Peter Iliff confirmed it was, and explained why the original ending changed.

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