Point Break

Johnny Utah, a former Ohio State quarterback turned rookie FBI agent, is partnered with veteran agent Angelo Pappas to investigate a string of Southern California bank robberies carried out by a gang wearing rubber masks of former U.S. presidents — Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and LBJ — who call themselves the Ex-Presidents. The gang is disciplined: they hit only teller cash drawers and are out in under ninety seconds, leaving almost no evidence. Pappas theorizes the robbers are surfers, based on traces of sun-bleached hair and wax found at scenes. Utah goes undercover at the beach. After nearly drowning, he is rescued by Tyler, an orphaned surfer and waitress; he fabricates a family tragedy to persuade her to teach him to surf. Through Tyler, Utah meets Bodhi, a magnetic, philosophy-spouting surf gang leader, along with his crew: Roach, Grommet, and Nathaniel. The group eventually accepts Utah after learning his college football career was ended by a knee injury. As Utah immerses himself in their world, he becomes drawn to their high-adrenaline lifestyle, Bodhi's spiritual outlook, and Tyler herself. An FBI raid on a rival surfer gang — targeted after toxin analysis of a robber's hair sample — inadvertently blows a DEA undercover operation and proves that group is not the Ex-Presidents, leaving Utah back at square one. Utah grows suspicious of Bodhi's crew after noticing a telltale mooning gesture one of the masked robbers makes during a heist, a habit he recognizes from the group. During a stake-out of the next likely robbery, Utah spots Bodhi in a Reagan mask and gives chase on foot, but his damaged knee fails and Bodhi escapes. That night, Tyler discovers Utah's FBI badge and ends their relationship. Bodhi, revealing he has known Utah's identity all along, coerces him into skydiving with the gang and then makes explicit that he is holding Tyler as leverage, forcing Utah to participate in one final bank robbery or risk her life. During the heist, an off-duty cop and a security guard intervene; in the ensuing violence, the youngest gang member Grommet is shot and killed. The surviving robbers abandon Utah at the scene, where he is arrested by other agents. Pappas, furious and grief-stricken, vows to catch Bodhi on his own terms. A subsequent confrontation at Los Angeles International Airport ends in a shootout that kills Pappas and Nathaniel; Roach is mortally wounded. Bodhi forces Utah at gunpoint onto a waiting plane. Once over the drop zone, Bodhi and the dying Roach parachute out, leaving Utah aboard. Utah grabs Bodhi's gun and leaps after him, intercepting Bodhi in free fall and jamming the gun against him — but his knee buckles on landing, allowing Bodhi to disappear. Nine months later, Utah tracks Bodhi to Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia, where a historic swell is generating what surfers call the '50-year storm' — massive, unsurvivable waves that Bodhi had long dreamed of riding. Utah arrests him on the beach, but Bodhi begs to be released to ride the wave, the culmination of everything he has lived for. Knowing Bodhi will not survive, Utah lets him go and watches as Bodhi paddles out into the enormous surf. Utah then throws his FBI badge into the ocean and walks away.

Sources: Wikipedia