Blue Crush Reviews

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but, somehow, I still ended up watching it. Basically, it is one of those movies which gives you some preconceived ideas even before you see it and I didn’t think I was actually the target audience. Eventually, I thought it was actually gritty, of course, not gritty enough to become really remarkable, but it was gritty enough to become watchable and rather entertaining. Of course, this movie was the breakthrough for Kate Bosworth who was supposed to become a major player but she never fulfilled those expectations. Back in those days, she looked much healthier and she was definitely quite charming. Her profile would keep rising until ‘Superman Returns’ which was not that bad but it was still a flop. She was definitely miscast in this blockbuster and her career has never really recovered from the blow. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, it is basically a rather standard surf drama but it was rather well made and it seemed to be rather realistic so, I must admit it, I was actually rather positively surprised. To conclude, even though it is nothing mind-blowing whatsoever, it is actually rather entertaining and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

Yes both the story/plot are rather familiar and trite but those surfing sequences are amazing and well shot. The cast members do a pretty nice job but none of the performances are really memorable. Those surfing scenes are just so amazing though but I feel like I didn't really learn that much about surfing. The biggest problem with the movie is that only about 40-50 minutes are spent in the water, the other 50-60 minutes are spent on land which is where the movie loses ideas and doesn't know what to do with its characters. I have to give credit though to the director, he manages to bring us into the experience, instead of just filming the movie from shore or far away while the actors are surfing, like the way most surfing movies are shot, he brings us all over the place, above the water(helicopter of course), in the water, and in the actor's faces as their surfing the wave. The best though is when the camera goes into the water filming the surfers surfing the wave. Everything else about the movie was ok, the thing that keeps this from begin your typical teen sports/drama flick is the surfing sequences without them this would be a very boring movie.

Blue Crush is a halfway decent film until the introduction of the love interest. I don't know why Hollywood movies feel the need to ram a love story in a film when it's just not needed.

If the director had made the movie more about Anne Marie's love/fear of the waves it would have been more nuanced. As it is the whole romance totally sidetracked the film.