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Summary: Soundtrack
Review: I loved the movie but i cant find the soundtrack anywhere! Does anyone know where to buy the soundtrack need help a.s.a.p.!
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Summary: In Wad's Hands...
Review: This movie has a few good surf snippets, and a few good song snippets- but overall its just quite poor. The way the scenes are put together seems rather haphazard, the attempt at romance is weak, and the plot is difficult to get fired up about. It's not a 'terrible' movie, and is OK for a first watch. The attempt at doing a more 'artistic' and 'engaging' story revolving around surfing is always welcomed, yet, the film just seemed to spin too long in no-man's-land before the climax. The biggest challenge for a story writer and filmmaker is to keep the audience engaged between Plot Point I and II- that long middle section must maintain viewer interest. 'In God's Hands' must have more 'mature' conflict or at least move along at a steady clip. 'In God's Hand's' makes a noble attempt, but maybe something got lost in the editing process? Thus, I can only slightly recommended this film.
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Summary: Good Footage, So-So Acting, Lousy "Plot"
Review: The footage is very good -- some shots, especially underwater, that are not seen in many other surf films. The acting is only so-so, but I think that may be limited to one or two actors. Many of the others, amateur and semi-professional, were actually pretty good. The plot, if you can call it that, is really lame. It either should have had one or not. Either be like "North Shore" and "Point Break" or be like "Endless Summer". The in-between appears meaningless (the budget is much less a factor than people think, witness "Blair Witch Project" and other excellent very-low-budget films). So, although I watched all of it, it could easily be skimmed for the surf shots. For those, I give five stars, three stars for the acting and one star for the plot. Since I prefer the surf shots, four stars it is.
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Summary: Real Surfers Being Actors And Not The Other Way Around.
Review: I truely believe this was and still is the best movie out there to portray surfers in a "Hollywood" movie setting. If you surf well you'll agree that the story line portrays surfers as spirtual beings and not a bunch of unmotivated stoners. And well if you don't surf than this movie will make you want to go learn too.
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Summary: In reaction of: Sam Kim fron SoCal
Review: How typical is this reaction coming from a small-wave surfer from SoCal. Ok, I totally agree with you on the acting part, but then they're not actors, but surfers. You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. It's not the acting, not the setting, it's the message, way of life they display in this film. Not actors being surfers, but surfers being themselves. But you really ripped out my hart when you compare this one with movies like Big wednesday and Northshore...they're fun to watch but have nothing to do with real surfing! I mean, a schoolboy, who's surfchampion in Arizona (great waves there!) wants to take it on in Hawaii? Come on, even you can't believe that!
When you take it up to Endless Summer, I can relate... I'll pay you the shipping costs, you send that DVD to Europe ok? A former Santa Cruz Citizen
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Summary: Surfing meets Red Shoe Diaries
Review: This is the worst B movie I have ever seen. I broke my own rule and bought a movie I have never seen before. If anyone wants to buy it off me, just pay for shipping and I'll send it to you for free. The format is DVD. The attempted theme of the movie is ambitious and quite unique. The cornerstone of what this is all about. To put it into an artistic format of what it is to surf and to follow Mother Ocean. Not a surf flick but a surf movie. If it hadn't been for poor acting, over dramatic acting, poor screenplay, and poor production, it would of been good. Those reviewers who liked the movie, I don't know what you were smoking while watching this movie but I would appreciate you sharing it with me. Perhaps you got this movie mixed up with real surf movies like Big Wednesday(not available in DVD), North Shore(not available in DVD), Aloha Summer(not available in DVD), Endless Summer I and II, and even Point Break under influence. Again, share the wealth. Stay away from this waste of effort.
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Summary: An accurate coverage of a lifestyle...
Review: Where most of the films about surfing tend to take a ride on the fantasyboat, this one expresses thoughts many surfers have. Looking at Dorian's character, the real soulsurfers among us will knodd their heads and think: "You tell 'em, bro!" His rejection of commercial surfing and the fear of losing touch with everything that makes surfing so beautiful (although he does get towed in), is well displayed in this superb film. So if you're only at there worrying about how you look, don't bother to see this one. But when it's your true calling, accept no substitute!
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Summary: Save your money and buy a real surf movie!
Review: If only the surfers in this movie could act as well as they surf, or if the script wasn't so cliche ridden and bad, or if they cut out the "action" scenes and showed just the surfing...oh, well. By all means avoid this sad excuse of a "surfing" movie and go buy either one of the Endless Summer movies. Go to your local surf shop and explore the many surf movies out there. Life's too short to waste money on another bad Hollywood "surfing" movie hatchet job.
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Summary: Failed hope that Hollywood would finally "get" surfing right
Review: "In God's Hands" arrived amidst a lot of hope and hype during its production, being the first surf movie produced by a Hollywood studio that boasted real surfers as the writers (former writer for SURFER and Surfing magazines, Matt George) and stars of the movie (Shane Dorian, Matt George, and Matty Liu). Overall, it failed, horribly. The movie is a visual feast, both in terms of the waves and the stars. Its incoherent plot is a major disappointment, especially coming from Matt George. The motivations of the three major characters remain completely mystifying to even a surfing-savvy audience throughout the film's first two acts, and their interrelationship lacks any chemistry whatsoever. Until the three main characters hook up with the tow-in crew of Doerner, Kealuana, Randle, and Cabrinha, the movie flops and spasms about the Indian Ocean like a fish out of water, with George's character, Mickey, taking the most absurd moments to spout bizarre one-liners. "Have you ever had an epiphany?" he shouts in the middle of an extended, flashy and confusing car chase / prison breakout. This sequence and others like it highlight the major problem with the movie. The writers have added in too much weak material to what could have been an interesting story about travelling surfers doing year-round training in Indonesia and other locations in preparation for Hawaii's big waves. I can see the studio executives throwing distractions into the pot: "Add some romance!" "What about a car chase?" The exploits of the surfers aren't enough for them. So, we don't get to see enough of the conversations between Brian Kealuana and the rest of his crew when talking about water safety, and we see too much of an inexplicable rock concert in Bali that occupies a seemingly endless amount of screen time. The cast for the film is comprised almost entirely of surfers who have never acted on the screen before this film. The results are varied. Shaun Tomson is a pleasant and charismatic surprise as a kind of narrator. On the other hand, Shane Dorian's inexperience really shows in his role. While, to his credit, he had never acted before, and the director does his best by trying to make him dark, inexpressive, and mysterious, his scenes still come across as difficult and overacted. Matt George does little more with "Mickey" than rant and spew. The final shots of big wave tow-ins at Peahi are amazing, as are earlier sequences shot at Backdoor and Off-the-Wall, including several truly beautiful barrel rides by the late Todd Chesser, who stunt-doubled for Matt. Peahi is awe-inspiring, and the slow motion adrenaline of its footage beats any other Hollywood-produced waves, be they from "Deep Impact" or "The Perfect Storm." Since the movie's production the footage has definitely become outdated, with tow-in surfing having gone mainstream and bigger still at places like Cortes Bank and Mavericks as well as heavier at places like Teahupo'o. Ultimately, one wonders what sort of movie could have been made simply following the real tow-in crews like Hamilton and Doerner around on their training missions and surf sessions. What might have resulted if a director with a real connection to the ocean had the same opportunity and funding to bring one of their films to the big screen. I'm thinking of guys like Jack McCoy, or the up-and-coming Jack Johnson or Chris Malloy. It didn't happen, and unfortunately we are left with this bizarre convoluted mix that while visually pleasing to the eye, doesn't have much of anything to say. Surfers would do well to avoid this one, and non-surfers would be much more enlightened about the sport by a movie like "Liquid Stage" or "Surfing for Life."
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Summary: What a horrible excuse for a surf movie
Review: Please do yourself a favor and don't waste your time with this movie. If you're really into surfing then go check out the Endless Summer (1 or 2), the Surfer's Journal video series, Lost across America, Hit and Run, Thicker than Water, September Sessions, or look for the coming release of Shelter (a film by Chris Malloy and friends)....anything but In God's Hands. If you want the hollywood version of a surf movie, if you thought North Shore or Point Break were great surf flicks, or if you think Shane Dorian is cute you might like this. Otherwise, look elsewhere for a true dose of surfing's "soul".
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