Bodhi meets with Rosie and releases Tyler. After landing safely, Utah's knee gives out again, allowing Bodhi to escape Utah's grasp.

With no other parachutes available, Utah jumps from the plane with Bodhi's gun and intercepts him. Once airborne and over their intended drop zone, Bodhi and Roach put on their parachutes and jump from the plane, leaving Utah to take the blame. With Roach aboard, Bodhi forces Utah onto the plane at gunpoint. During a shootout, Pappas and Nathaniel are killed, and Roach is seriously wounded. Outraged by Grommet's death, Bodhi knocks out Utah and leaves the scene.ĭefying their superior Ben Harp, who arrests Utah, Pappas and Utah head to the airport where Bodhi, Roach, and Nathaniel are about to leave for Mexico. Grommet is killed, along with an off-duty police officer, and a bank security guard who attempt to foil the robbery. Utah is blackmailed into participating in the Ex-Presidents' last bank robbery of the summer. After the jump, Bodhi reveals that he knows Utah is an FBI agent and has arranged for his friend Rosie, a non-surfing thug, to hold Tyler hostage. Shortly afterward, Bodhi coerces Utah into skydiving with the group. Tyler discovers Utah's FBI badge and angrily terminates their relationship. Despite having a clear shot, the injured Utah allows Bodhi to escape.Īt a campfire that night, it is confirmed that Bodhi and his gang are the Ex-Presidents. While wearing a Reagan mask, Bodhi leads Utah on a foot chase through the neighborhood, which ends when Utah's old knee injury flares up after jumping into a flood control channel. Utah and Pappas stake out a bank, and the Ex-Presidents appear. Watching Bodhi's group surfing, Utah begins to suspect that they are the Ex-Presidents, noting how close a group they are and the way one of them moons other surfers in the same manner one of the robbers does. The raid inadvertently ruins a DEA undercover operation, as those surfers were wanted for separate charges regarding drug dealing, and they are determined not to be the Ex-Presidents. Following a clue retrieved 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, resulting in the deaths of two of them. As he masters surfing, Utah finds himself drawn to the surfers' adrenaline-charged lifestyle, Bodhi's philosophies, and Tyler. The group is wary of Utah, but they accept him when Bodhi recognizes him as a former college football star who quit due to a knee injury.

Through her, he meets Bodhi, the leader of a gang of surfers consisting of Roach, Grommet, and Nathaniel. He fabricates a family tragedy to persuade orphaned surfer and restaurant waitress Tyler to teach him to surf, after she saves him from drowning during his first attempt. Pursuing Pappas's theory that the criminals are surfers, Utah infiltrates the surfing community. Rather than robbing the vault, they only demand the cash the tellers have in their drawers and are gone within ninety seconds. Following the film's success, it spawned a remake that was released in 2015.įormer Ohio State quarterback and rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah assists Agent Angelo Pappas in investigating a string of bank robberies by the 'Ex-Presidents': robbers who wear rubber masks of former presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon B. During its theatrical run, the film grossed over $83.5 million, and has since gained a cult following. Point Break opened to generally positive reviews, with critics praising the chemistry between Reeves and Swayze.

It was shot across the western coast of the continental United States and was officially budgeted at $24 million, before being released on July 12, 1991. Bigelow soon developed the script with husband James Cameron, and filming took place four years later. The film features Reeves as an undercover FBI agent who is tasked with investigating the identities of a group of bank robbers while he develops a complex relationship with the group's leader (Swayze).ĭevelopment of Point Break began in 1986, when Iliff wrote an initial treatment for the film. The film's title refers to the surfing term ' point break', where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. It stars Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. Point Break is a 1991 American crime film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W.

Point break cast.