In 1991, Keanu Reeves went toe to toe with Patrick Swayze on the big screen as ex-quarterback turned FBI agent Johnny Utah in the surf-themed action thriller Point Break.

Almost 25 years later, Johnny Utah is back on the big screen, but he’s not just surfing anymore.

Director Ericson Core has taken this early 90’s classic to the next level as the modern-day Utah exposes an audience to the wide world of extreme sports featuring motocross, skydiving, wingsuit flying, big mountain snowboarding, BASE jumping, rock climbing and big-wave surfing.

This modern day Point Break stars Luke Bracey as Johnny Utah and Edgar Ramirez reprises Patrick Swayze’s role as Bodhi. This Alcon Entertainment production hits theatres Christmas Day.

“We wanted to present the truth with all the respect to the extreme athletes and the only way to do that is to do it for real,” said Core.

To achieve authenticity, Core used as few computer-generated graphics as possible and enlisted a team of real-life extreme athletes to consult on and star in the film’s most important stunts and scenes.

For the big-wave surfing, Laird Hamilton consulted and made a cameo as a jet-ski driver. Former Olympian Xavier De Le Rue advised and performed snowboard stunts. Award-winning record-breaking rock climber Chris Sharma choreographed and performed free-climbing stunts. World renowned professional skydivers Jeb Corliss and Jon DeVore planned and performed the film’s breathtaking wingsuit flight scene.

“It was my promise to each and every one of the extreme athletes that we were going to present the film in a partnership,” said Core. “We wanted it to be absolutely authentically in-camera at the locations that were appropriate, and present to the world, pushing the boundaries of what the sports are capable of in all its truth.”

Core and his crew travelled to shoot in 10 different countries and spent countless takes getting every shot necessary to properly display the ins and outs of these extreme feats and do the sports justice in the eyes of the athletes.

DeVore, who is also the manager of the Red Bull Air Force human flight team, invited a group of his air-sport peers to a Las Vegas screening of the film to get his first look at the work he put in.

“When our scenes came on, there was such an overwhelming sense of pride to know that absolutely everything that happened on screen was 100 per cent what happened,” recalled DeVore. “It wasn't doctored at all.”

DeVore is no stranger to Hollywood, having coordinated or performed stunts for Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), The Hangover Part III (2013), Godzilla (2014), and San Andreas (2015). DeVore said none of those movies did his sport justice like Point Break has.

The 40-year-old stuntman recalled watching his scenes from the Transformers movie for the first time.

“The first 15 to 20 seconds of that was real and then all the CGI came in and they started making us do things that were just physically impossible and the pride of ownership wasn’t really there.”

As an athlete in a sport like wingsuit flying, properly displaying what the sport entails is important to DeVore, as well as his director, and the high-flying stuntman was more than impressed with Core’s results.

“You walk away [from watching the movie] knowing that the world has seen something that’s true, true to the sport,” said DeVore. “There’s nothing like that as an athlete to be able to know that you just showcased your sport in the absolute best way possible on the big screen.

“It’s an amazing feeling.”

While Core planned to use the expertise and skills of some of the world’s greatest extreme athletes, he found a major theme throughout the sports that connected with his movie.

“The idea that there is a line, a path through something in order to accomplish it,” he said.

The “line” refers to an imaginary path that is mentally mapped out in order to snowboard down a mountain, climb a rock face, ride a wave, or fly through the air in a wingsuit. But Core uses the “line” in his movie as a metaphor for life as well.

“Even in our characters and our story, beyond the extreme sports, Bodhi is following a particular line in terms of his path of what his life mission is and he follows it to the very end, the same thing with Utah,” said Core.

“That‘s sort of a message that we have in the film: everyone needs to pick their own line. It doesn’t have to be extreme big-wave surfing or wingsuit flying, but ultimately whatever that line is, if you follow that to your greatest level, you’re going to be satisfied with your life.”