ThiefHott Too much of everything

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Jua-Mari Strehler This is possibly the very worst movie I have ever seen.The camera-work is terrible. It was awkward and there was no movement. There were too many static shots. The scenes were awkward.The sound was terrible. Bad mistakes were made like not mixing properly or not adding atmosphere. Voices were overdubbed and you could really tell because they didn't bother to add background sounds in. I've seen many student projects with much better sound.The story bears almost no resemblance to the story on which it is based. Listening to a 5 minute clip of the man on who the story is based is much better. That's pretty bad considering that they used an incredible amount of resources to make a feature.Most of the film is spent surfing all over the world, which isn't entirely integral to the story and probably cost a lot of unnecessary money.The cast seemed universally terrible, which would indicate that the directing wasn't great. Some of the cast members weren't actors and you could really tell.There's really no reason to watch this movie, not even if you are a Christian hoping to support the Christian filmmakers and cast of the movie. The movie makes Christians out to be hippy freaks that just read You Version and lose all interest in the activities that they love. This movie certainly did more harm than good to Christianity.

tena_v This is a bad movie, and I hate to say that, because people who made it probably liked it. But it's so bad. I feel like I lost an hour I will never get back :/ This is a movie about a young man, Ian played by Scott Eastwood, who is trying to find his place in the world. He is a surfer and wants to find his perfect wave to complete his life's wish. While on his pursuit he meets a girl and falls in love with her, but she just walks out on him after a misunderstanding, she is so important in one minute, and puff she's gone in the second. Also, unlike his mother he is not religious, but through a near death experience he realizes God is always with him.First of all, the acting and the dialogue are bad - everything is forced and actors are uptight.I just didn't like this movie. Every scene was forced, like they were all just reading from the script and not feeling anything. Child Ian was particularly bad at acting - that was hard to watch. Flashback scenes and retelling of the memories was unnecessary, I think we would have realized his mother has a connection with God without that, and we would have realized Ian has his differences with God. Also Ian's voice overs were not needed, I have a feeling they were just a filler in the movie, so there was no need for more bad dialogs.I feel like the story is on fast forward, everything is happening so fast, like they were trying to fit a lot of action in an hour, and the audio was to clear, we could hear everything even with waves crashing all around. The songs were to loud, and they took to much time, it was like watching a musical.It's just bad.

graham_watkins This film is billed as a surf movie and a quest to find a perfect wave, but it isn't. It's a thinly veiled film about religion and finding god. The film starts in New Zealand, but miraculously somewhere in New Zealand where nobody has a Kiwi accent. The acting is so wooden I wouldn't have been surprised to see Pinocchio make an appearance. Some of the places in which the surfing films were done were spectacular, but that's the only good thing about the film. The surfing scenes in Cape Town are of a surfer in only board shorts, did the director swim in the sea around Cape Town? If he had he'd have known you need a wetsuit because it's so cold. The scene near the end when the film's hero is lying on the ground with his hands together praying for god to help him was the last scene I watched. I can see why the directors added surfing to a religion themed film; they know surfers will watch any film about surfing, but if you read the film reviews by surfers you'll see they failed, and failed spectacularly. Do yourself a favour, watch something else, don't waste your time watching this drivel.

SeaRandom35 I went in actually expecting (hoping for) a Christian movie. Instead, I got over an hour of gorgeous scenery, weak music, and random surfing/hooking up that didn't seem to go anywhere. Towards the end of the film, he suddenly gets bitten by a jellyfish and nearly dies, but his apparently psychic mom receives a magic God-o-gram of his condition and begs for his life or something.I'm amazed that there was so little 'Christian' content until the very last part of the movie. If they had put that near death epiphany way earlier in the film (maybe at the 35min mark?) and then perhaps explored his 'changed life' a bit, it might have been something. As it stands, he is only a "Christian" for less than five minutes of the film at the very end. It would have been really interesting to see him do something with his new insight, but the movie makers seemed to lose interest in him when he finds his faith. The actual Ian (shown during the credits) seems far more interesting than this film about him.I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to get from this film beyond the fact that some Christian ladies have telepathic superpowers. If you're looking for a recent surfing movie, there's better to be found. For the faith crowd, try Soul Surfer (2011) or the documentary Walking on Water (2007). For the family crowd, try Chasing Mavericks (2012) or the animated Surf's Up (2007). Basically, if you're looking for a good surfing film, try something else. Rating: 3/10.