![]() ![]() Her hair flings back with water, the waves crash down, and some average surfing maneuvers are all shown in slow motion. After a few minutes of this, Nancy is in the water by herself, surfing the big waves, which is when everything become slow motion for the duration of the film. We just miss out on all the supposed beautiful shots and cinematography. The stupid thing about this is that the camera even shows the actual phone screen in frame as well through all of this. She’s being driven through a beautiful part of the forest to get to this amazing paradise view, but you wouldn’t know it, because the director has Nancy texting her friend the whole time, while the screen captions are displayed largely on the screen at all times in real time. It is implied that she dropped out of med school after her mother died of cancer (a horrible side story full of cheese). There’s just so much wrong with this movie, it’s hard to decipher where to begin, but as a charming nun/babysitter said, “Let’s start at the very beginning.” We first meet Nancy (Lively) as she is being driven to a remote beach to surf while she is on vacation. Blake Lively, who plays a young woman named Nancy, does a decent enough job with the material she’s given, but after reading the screenplay, I would have walked far away from this film and never looked back, even if I got to go to Australia for a few weeks and film. ![]() It’s poorly written, poorly shot, and doesn’t make a lick of sense. It’s terrible filmmaking on just about every level. After sleeping on it for a night, this film might be one of the worst and silliest films to come out this year. It takes the audience out of the moment, as is the horrid case with the new killer shark movie ‘The Shallows‘. Note to filmmakers: When you make a movie, DON’T use slow motion for over 80% of your film, especially in the horror/thriller genre. ![]()
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