Point Break is a 1991 action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and Gary Busey. The title refers to the surfing term "point break"
Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), is a rookie FBI agent and former Ohio State quarterback who, with his partner Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey), is investigating a string of bank robberies by a gang of bank robbers known as the Ex-Presidents because they wear masks of Presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and Johnson. Pursuing a theory of Pappas' that the criminals are surfers, Utah goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing community. Knowing little of the sport and lifestyle, Utah persuades orphan surfer girl Tyler Endicott (Lori Petty) to teach him to surf.
In the process, Utah develops a complex relationship with Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers, Roach (James LeGros), Grommet (Bojesse Christopher), and Nathaniel (John Philbin), who accept Utah into their midst as they realize he's a great athlete. As he masters the art of surfing, Utah finds himself increasingly attracted to the surfers' adrenaline-charged lifestyle, Bodhi's philosophies - and to Tyler.
Following a clue gotten by analyzing toxins found in the hair of one of the bank robbers, Utah and Pappas lead an FBI raid on another gang of surfers. While criminals, these surfers aren't the Ex-Presidents and the raid inadvertently ruins a DEA undercover operation.
Watching Bodhi's group surfing, Utah suspects they are the Ex-Presidents from the way one of them moons everyone as one of the robbers did leaving the bank. He tails Bodhi and his suspicions are confirmed when Bodhi and Roach case a bank. Utah and Pappas stakeout the bank and the Ex-Presidents appear. In the ensuing chase through streets, backyards, houses, alleys, etc. Utah is finally unable to shoot his friend and he gets away.
Bodhi aggressively recruits him into participating in a skydiving adventure, and Utah, still not having any hard proof that Bodhi is a bank robber, goes along. After the jump, Bodhi reveals that he knows Utah is an FBI agent, and has arranged for Tyler to be held hostage by his friend Rosie, a non-surfing thug; Utah is forced to participate in their last bank robbery of the summer. The robbery goes wrong and Grommet and an off-duty cop are killed; Utah is left at the scene.
Defying their FBI supervisor who arrested Utah for participating in the bank robbery, Pappas and Utah go to the airport where Bodhi, Roach and Nathaniel are about to board a plane. Another shoot out ensues, in which Pappas and Nathaniel are killed and Roach seriously wounded. Bodhi and Roach take off in the plane, forcing Utah to board with them. Once airborne and over their intended jump point, Bodhi and Roach put on parachutes and jump from the plane. Without any other parachutes available in the aircraft, Utah jumps out of the plane and after the pair. Utah manages to intercept Bodhi before he lands, and the two parachute to the ground with Bodhi's chute. Once on the ground, Bodhi and Rosie meet up, check on Roach (who died either in the air or on landing) and escape. Bodhi orders Rosie to release Tyler, and then the pair leave with the money.
Utah eventually catches up with Bodhi in Australia, where a record storm is producing huge but lethal waves. After a brutal physical altercation on the surf, Utah manages to handcuff Bodhi to his own wrist, but, through Bodhi's persuasion, releases him to go ride the once-in-a-lifetime wave which will kill him. Utah walks away, throwing his FBI badge into the ocean.
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