Bank robbers who are surfers? The F.B.I. force can hardly believe that Agent Angelo
Pappas is actually considering such a thing. But what do they care? He's probably
gone loopy, he's old and washed up, unable to adapt to the new system of the F.B.I. So they
ignore his theory, letting the notorious bank robbers "The Ex Presidents" rob as many
banks as they like. But Pappas can't believe it when a rookie Agent Johnny Utah is assigned to
him! After all the kids a damn ex football player! How the hell is he suppose to solve
this bank robbery case with this college punk by his side? But Pappas soon learns
that Utah is a crack shot and he's also clever, and supportive of Pappas's mocked
theory. Together they set out to get the elusive robbers, realising that sex wax was
found at a previous crime scene and that the robberies only take place every summer. The
robbers move with the waves.
Utah goes deep undercover to find the surfers, meeting
Tyler, a tough tomboy chic who can surf like a devil and is a very reluctant mentor as
well. He says he's a lawyer and that his parents died, after learning from the F.B.I. system
that Tyler's folks are dead too, he uses this to soften her and get her to be his teacher.
But is Utah ready for the world of surfers? An elusive sort of tribe that rides on the waves
and lives for the eternal thrill of almost meeting their end? He gets tumbled by massive
waves and the spiritual and manipulative surfer, Bodhi, Tyler's ex boyfriend, and the leader
of a pack of thrill seeking hot head surfers. Utah gets accepted into their group, but
as he becomes closer to Bohdi and his pals, he loses sight of their guilt and grows to
care for Bohdi as a friend. He botches up an operation with a possible group of surfer
suspects who are in fact crystal meth dealers. Through a mass of shooting, blood and
naked brawling with two angry females involved with the punks, they learn that these
guys aren't their culprits. And that an undercover DEA agent was infact trying to bust
them on drug dealing after months of undercover work. As if this isn't enough to
make Utah want to take a ticket out of there, he almost catches Bohdi on a mad chase
scene on foot, after he stakes out to catch the robbers, but is unable to shoot him because he cares for Bohdi. He also injures his already surgeory plagued knee from
falling off a slope onto concrete. Pappas doesn't buy Utah's story of him missing Bohdi
as seen as Utah is an incredible marksman.
Later Bohdi and Utah go sky diving, but
the surfer has something up his sleeve. His physco friend Rosie is holding Tyler
hostage after she find out that Utah wasn't a lawyer but a cop and ran off after holding Johnny at gun point. Now Rosie is threatening to kill Tyler and the only way Johnny
can save her is by helping The Ex Presidents in one last hiest. But Bohdi makes a
fatal error, he gets greedy and goes for the vault, over exstending their time and
losing a crew member, as well as killing an off duty cop who tries to be a hero. Johnny is
knocked out by a maddened Bohdi and left to be arrested by his own force! Mocked by
the ass licking agents who are always on his & Pappas's back. They arrest Johnny and
are disgusted with him killing a fellow cop, but Utah is totally cosmatoes to this, hating
Bohdi inwardly like a disease. Pappas knows Utah acted like a jock strap and made a bad move by falling into Bohdi's trap. But he defends his young partner anyway
against the arrogant pompous ass that is Agent Ben Harp, telling the smart ass that
he was on the force when he was still popping his zits and jerking off to the victoria
secrets catalogue. He then punches Harp and knocks him out, saying that he's also
always respected his elders and that Harp should learn to too! Now the heat is on, as
Utah knows that the only reason he got involved in the robbery was because of Tyler,
but now it's become too personal, and Bohdi has gone way too far. But then again, how far is too far for someone as radical as Bohdi?
Utah and Pappas go alone to where he and Bohdi first went skydiving, and this results in a massive shoot off
and Pappas being blown away by the cowardly Roach, who also gets shot and bleeds
out on the plane. They get Utah on the plane and claim that there's no more parashoots,
and Roach leaps of saying he'll see Johnny in Hell. Johnny jumps after Bohdi though
and in an adrenaline pumping scene he tells Bohdi to pull the shoot or he blows Bohdi's
head off. Being fearless Bohdi says either way they die, and Johnny pulls the shoot in
a furious gesture of loathing the other man. They land in the desert planes of an unknown
area, Roach's corpse lies on the dusty ground and the money flits into the air with a green
haze again the blue sky. Tyler is released by Rosie, and him and Bohdi ride off down the
dusty track to where ever they plan to go.
Years later, in Australia, Bohdi's prediction of
the hundred year storm that would cause the Pacific to swell and produce huge ways, comes true. But Utah has been tracking his ex friend, and in the tumultous storm that
the heavens spill upon the Australian coast and the sea swells and floods the island,
with the help of collosal amounts of rain fall, we see Johnny again walking to the beach.
Surfers retreat in droves from the beach, claiming that only a mad man would stay on the
ocean in such a tremendous outbreak of fury over the sea. But Johnny knows one man
who would, Bohdi, and he's come to collect him to be locked up behind bars at last. Bohdi is staring out to see, the figure of peace and in his eyes we see the hunger to
ride those waves. Johnny breaks his trance and tells him that he's been tracking him
and Rosie for some time now. And that he finally got a break when he found Rosie's
mared corpse in a bar after a bad fight. He says he feared that Bohdi would just
vanish after that though, but he knew that he would never miss the hundred year storm.
Bohdi says that its typical that Utah's here, and that he guesses that the agent has finally
got his man. He tries to escape though, almost drowning Johnny in the waves as they
pummel eachother, falling about in the greyish foam water of the sea. Utah handcuffs
Bohdi however and tells him that he told the cops that Bohdi would go quietly. Bohdi
begs him not do this, saying he'd die in a cage! Utah doesn't care anymore, it's time
that his compadre went down. In the end however, he lets Bohdi go and ride the
ferocious waves that rise in terrifying heights like walls of water. Utah watches as
Bohdi paddles out to his death as the water crashes into him. Utah stands in the
pouring rain, his now long hair sopping and his eyes full of a strange sort of peace. The Australian policemen are livered that he let Bohdi go and say "We'll get him when he
comes back in!" Johnny walks away and chucks his F.B.I. badge into the ocean, and
replies, it seems, to the raging waves, "He's not coming back."