Steve Addington [Matthew McConaughey] has returned home to California from his trip around the world of riding all the most awesomest waves around. His previous cash horse has sold out their assets to some company that doesn’t understand Addington’s world of surfing and they want to digitize him and monetize his skills by way of reality TV and video games and all other which ways, but that is not the Addington way of life. Addington is the most one minded character you’ve seen in a long while, he doesn’t want anything other than to lay on the beach all day and surf when a wave comes along. The movie follows this fun character around as he is messed with by the business to try and taint that purity for him.

Now I want to start out by saying that this movie is not a great film, but at the same time it isn’t a bad one. I am a bit of a fan of Matthew McConaughey, mainly because he is just so damn likeable. And I mean I love to make the joke about McConaughey and how he always has his shirt off, but at least it was a wardrobe requirement for this film rather than previous ones where I’m sure he ran off to the director and suggested it every morning until the director gave in thirty minutes into the movie.

I loved the character of Steve Addington, he is just this – forgive me for not finding a better word – DUDE who just wants to surf. I enjoyed watching him be mello and preach his surfer philosophy and while watching this movie I wanted to stick Eddie Zarno [Jeffrey Nordling] on a small deserted island with his board and no waves or any form of life in sight for hundreds of miles. Zarno was just one of the biggest business assholes I’ve seen on screen this year, but at the same time I’d like to say that McConaughey was the best actor on set here. Anytime you left the aura of McConaughey and went off to check some of the other plot points the movie because a bad movie.

One thing that I did like for its shittiness has to be the reality TV house. Whenever you entered this house that was being used for the reality TV show about surfers partying in the house it always had the feel of a being completely superficial and fake, which it was. And I liked that mainly because those kinds of shows are superficial and fake, just like wrestling. I even like that at the end they showed that even Lupe [Ramon Rodriguez] was in on the fake and that hurt me.

So in the end I recommend this movie for the McConaughey and all the mello surfer philosophical moments that make you think that maybe this guy has a brain. But I would not advise anymore than a rent in that regard.

IMDB says 4.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 0%

I say 5.0/10