One of my all time favorites.

Great Film overall

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

John Stockwell's Blue Crush treads so close to the line of falling into the category of impossibly unrealistic romance fare but rebounds significantly by having its main character never lose sight of what's important to her. Just as you think the romantic element of the film will hijack the idea of the conflicts of self-motivation and self-doubt the narrator is having with herself, writers Stockwell and Lizzie Weiss rebound and help the romantic interest of the film's lead character motivate her rather than distract her. In addition, the film also respectfully portrays the surfing culture as more than a gaggle of stoned losers that ride waves and do nothing but slum when the tide comes in.The film stars Kate Bosworth, an actress who, I assume, in 2002 was looking to be the next Kirsten Dunst or Reese Witherspoon until the glory faded, as Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth), a teenager working as a maid at a tourist hotel in Hawaii and surfing with her best friends Eden (Michelle Rodriguez) and Lena (Sanoe Lake) on the side. Anne Marie is also taking care of her fourteen-year-old sister Penny (Mika Boorem) after their mother left for Las Vegas with another guy she met, in addition to training for her surfing comeback in a huge, publicized competition in North Shore. Winners, or highly-skilled participants, of the race are known to get surfing magazine deals left and right, and being a famous female surfer, breaking the stereotype, and gaining the glory for women everywhere is part of Anne Marie's dream.In the mix, she winds up meeting Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis), an NFL quarterback in Hawaii for the Pro Bowl. Both individuals catch the eye of each other, but don't immediately strike up any flirtatious behavior because both have other things on their mind. Overtime, however, the two drift towards each other and wind up becoming closer, with Anne Marie's resistance always remaining in tact, as she doesn't want to be another hilarious story for Matt to tell his teammates when he gets back to the mainlands. However, Anne Marie finds out she may need Matt for the motivation and encouragement that she finds difficult to provide herself with, despite being highly-qualified and filled with talent.Blue Crush features some superbly photographed surfing scenes, shot with crisp, directorial command by Stockwell and made clear and evocative thanks to the cinematographical work of David Hennings. The final twenty minutes of the film are some of the most electric scenes of surfing I have yet to see, and work wonderfully in terms of shifting the focus away from what could be sentimental romance fluff into something truly breathtaking and original.At the end of the day, however, Blue Crush, while harmless, is also pretty simplistic; it's bears a very surface depiction of its characters despite not having the predictable pitfalls of its genre. Bosworth accentuates a nice charm, and the way that Stockwell and Weiss avoid the easier route is a commendable feat, on top of all the lush photography, but there's not enough drama that is gripping enough to invest in that doesn't seem oversimplified or voided by a lack of conversation in the film. Blue Crush serves as more intriguing basic entertainment than a great deal of other films made during or after its time, mainly due to the way it nicely avoids convention, yet there's still not a great deal of substance here outside of the fact that the predictably absorbing love interest doesn't monopolize the entire film on arrival.Starring: Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, Mika Boorem, and Faizon Love. Directed by: John Stockwell.

Blue Crush is a based on the Outside magazine article "Life's Swell" by Susan Orlean.It stars Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, and Mika Boorem.The film tells the story of three friends who have one passion: surfing on Hawaii's famed North Shore.John Stockwell directs.Anne Marie, Eden and Lena are best friends. Anne Marie and her friends have been raising her 14-year-old sister, Penny. While Penny is at school,all friends work as maids at a large resort hotel.And most of all, they are surfers. Anne Marie rises every morning before dawn to train for her surfing comeback. She was once considered a rising star in women's surfing but a near-drowning incident temporarily halted her career and left her with deep-seated fears. Her friends, especially Eden, have encouraged her to try it again.Then,Anne Marie has been invited to join in an upcoming surf competition at the famed North Shore surf spot, Pipeline.While the film isn't pretentious as a guilty pleasure,it is amazing that the photography and editing do well to demonstrate the beauty of how it all looks while moving with a momentum that wraps us up in the physical drama.And also,it was made to inspire the young people in whatever endeavors they want to pursue.

I think it is obvious why most boys will watch this film, but there is a good theme to be seen too, so I decided to try it and see which I'd be paying more attention to, and the conclusion, both. Basically, set in luxury Hawaii, Anne Marie Chadwick (Superman Returns' Kate Bosworth) is a surfing enthusiast, along with her friends Eden (Michelle Rodriguez) and Lena (Sanoe Lake). The days are counting down to the Pipe Masters surf competition, and Anne Marie is determined to conquer the waves that she had an incident on last time she tried two years ago. Her practising and determination for this competition are being distracted by both her young Penny (Mika Boorem) she has to look after, and her falling for professional quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis). But when it does come to the day of the competition, determination hasn't changed one bit, and she is willing to do it both for her Penny, her friends and Matt together. She may not have got through the full competition and won, but she still got high praise and her photo on the cover of a surfing magazine. Also starring Chris Taloa as Drew, Kala Alexander as Kala and Ruben Tejada as J.J. The surfing and ocean sequences are brilliantly shot, and of course the boys (me included) will enjoy the sight of three great looking girls in bikinis, so an enjoyable romantic (water) sports drama. Worth watching!

Unless you really enjoy B movies or surfing then this movie isn't worth your time. I admit there were some neat surfing shots but outside of that this film had no redeeming qualities. The plot, if you can call it one, revolves around surfer phenom Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) making a comeback to the sport after nearly drowning, she hit her head on a rock, during a competition. The film tracks Anne Marie as she prepares for a major surfing competition while trying to overcome lasting psychological effects of her near drowning experience. Overall, the plot was filled with clichés and the acting was bad to, at times, atrocious. Even the solid surfing scenes weren't enough to pique my interest. So unless you want to watch relatively unappealing (sorry, Kate) women surfing then I'd pass on this movie.