Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Surfer (2024)

 


In spite of what this publicity still might suggest, this is neither a Christmas movie nor indeed a surfing movie. It's very much a Nicholas Cage movie, and a psych-Aussies movie, but it also belongs to that noirish genre (does it have a name?) in which a male character arrives in an enigmatically detached and latently hostile location where his life starts to unravel at quite a lick.

If you liked Oliver Stone's U-Turn (1997) or Scorsese's After Hours (1985), then you will probably enjoy this, though as a caveat I would say there seems to me to be considerably more unrealised potential in this scenario, particularly in the final act.
 
 

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