n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

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.

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.

Caution: If you are about to watch the movie then you are going to get a free Church Service and donations are accepted.Its about a young man falling in "love" for the first time, HOLD ON A MIN its in "Gods love"BTW the lead actor is son of Clint Eastwood and he has not inherited any professional qualities from his Father or at least for this movie Its basically produced by a Church, to make you realize that at the end of 90mins even Jesus would have hated this movie.And a little advice to the director that you don't need so many characters for this story and they are awful actors, You should have pull the story with hardly 5 characters who are best at it.Did the dude sold his Ferrari to do the Traveling? because he traveled like Bruce Wayne