A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since it sounded quite intriguing, I was quite eager to check it out. I have noticed that this flick has a rather poor reputation, of course, it is not a masterpiece but I thought it was a really fascinating story. Later on, I have finally seen ‘Dogtown and Z-Boys’, the documentary which was the inspiration for this feature and, indeed, the doc was much better but, still, I was just hooked from the beginning until the end. Furthermore, I thought the movie was actually really well done and the actors (Emile Hirsch, Heath Ledger, Rebecca De Mornay, Nikki Reed, Sofia Vergara) were pretty good. Eventually, Heath Ledger was the only one who really received some praise but, even though he did a fine job as usual, the other actors were not bad at all either. Anyway, the main flaw was in fact, as with all sport movies, that it was rather predictable and not really original after all. Still, in spite of this fact, I thought it was actually a pretty good flick, I think it is definitely worth a look and I will re-watch it at some point since I have the DVD in my collection.

7/10