A ballsy FBI agent is sent undercover on a hunch that the “Dead Presidents” gang of bank robbers might just be some adrenaline junkies looking to finance their surfing and other extreme sports trips.
The original film directed by Kathryn Ann Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) and stars Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. The original film centered mostly around surfing with some car chases, bank robbings, sky diving and partying.
After a string of bizarre bank robberies in Southern California, with the crooks donning masks of various former presidents, a federal agent, Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), infiltrates the suspected gang. But this is no ordinary group of robbers.
They’re surfers—led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze)—who are addicted to the rush of thievery. But when Utah falls in love with a female surfer, Tyler (Lori Petty), who is close to the gang, it complicates his sense of duty.
The remake in 2015 kicked up the extreme sports angle with mountain climbing, off road motorcycles, scuba diving, flight suits and more.
Point Break is a 2015 action-thriller film directed and shot by Ericson Core and written by Kurt Wimmer. He co-produced it with John Baldecchi, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Christopher Taylor and David Valdes.
