Oeuvre: Bigelow: Point Break - Spectrum Culture

Oeuvre: Bigelow: Point Break - Spectrum Culture

There’s a distinct division in Kathryn Bigelow’s oeuvre, occurring sometime in the 2000s, where a director of madly overachieving genre movies downgraded into an auteur of underbaked, if still somewhat effective, prestige fare. A previous, oppositional shift occurs with Point Break, which in addition to forming a fascinating bridge between ‘80s and ‘90s action cinema (alongside fellow early-decade classics Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Deep Co…