There is nothing better than a good old documentary to feel the true essence of surfing in the big screen. But in the wild fields of fiction, Point Break is a classic of essential status.

Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) is a Special Agent for the FBI. Utah gets partnered with Angelo Pappas (Gary Busey), an experienced agent who is more than committed to his work. The two are asked to investigate the number of robberies committed by a group called the Ex-Presidents, who wear masks of Presidents Reagen, Nixon, Carter and Johnson for their robberies. Pappas has a theory that the Ex-Presidents are a group of surfers, and asks for Utah to go undercover as a surfer. The problem is Utah couldn't surf to save his life. That plus the two continuously being hassled by unpleasant and rough Agent Harp (John C. McGinley). With the help of Tyler (Lori Petty) a competent female surfer, Utah begins to gain the respect of local surfer Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) and his group. Utah forms a close bond with Bodhi, but the relationship between them becomes limited when Utah suspects that Bodhi and his group are the Ex-Presidents.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (who later directed the oscar awarded The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), Point Break is the perfect marriage between the clichés of the 80s and the physicality of the 90s’ action films. All these elements and some more plot to make a testosterone induced supreme burst of trashy insanity, however, the film has survived to become a peculiar cult phenomenon.

In 2015 Warner Bros. decided to launch a modernized remake of the classic, consequently updating the scope of the portrayed extreme sports, not forgetting the inescapable origins rooted in surf. The new version stars Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer and Delroy Lindo, having been launched in the US in december 2015

However, the tepid criticism and audience reception make it uncapable of replacing the cult icon that put Swayze and Reeves in our own nautical chart.