Point Break

point_breakDirected by the then celebrated actress and the director/producer of 2008’s great success, the Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, “Point Break” is an action movie that attempts to embrace the hard to define surf-philosophy lucratively. Released in 1991, the film depicts the legend wherein a gang of veteran big-wave surfers rob banks to meet expenses of their surf excursions and the probe for this surfers’ band by FBI.

The film has famous star cast including Keanu Reeves who plays the role of Johnny Utah and Gary Busey in the cast of Angelo Pappas. Johnny, an ex-football-player, is a FBI Agent who has asked to investigate case of a succession of unbeaten bank robberies. The mastermind behind these clever break-ins is a gang of four robbers who use masks of former presidents to conceal their identity. These bandits in the masks of Richard

Agent Utah believes the idea of his partner, Angelo that points the suspicion towards the surfing community and goes undercover to chase the robbers. This master athlete is alien to the surfing and surfers’ lifestyle, but meanwhile he learns it too. Over the time, he finds himself worn-down to the nerve-racking routine of surfers and Bodhi’s beliefs. One of the very famous dialogues of this kind of fascinating chief of the gang is worth to mention here. He says, “It’s not tragic to die doing what you love. If you want the ultimate, you got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.”

And that is what happens with him at last. Utah sees Bodhi and his partner robbing a bank. Followed by loads of actions, including skydiving, a failed attempt of bank robbery and a couple of murders in different shootouts, Bodhi successfully escapes. Nine months pass, Utah encounters the chief of “Ex-Presidents”, Bodhi at Bells Beach in Victoria. Utah handcuffs him there, but as Bodhi had been crazy to ride a giant swell that comes only twice in a century, he begs to let him go. With a famed dialogue, "vaya con Dios", Utah releases him and watch him being swallowed by what Bodhi used to call it the "50 Year Storm".

 

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