The cinematography is spectacular -- viewers are placed on top of, in the middle of, and under the waves -- but the story is a narrative wipeout almost from the start.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2023

If you’re into surfing, gorgeous landscapes and need some low-brow mush to watch on a cosy weekend, Blue Crush fits the bill perfectly.

| Sep 26, 2022

Story wise Blue Crush falls flat when it is on land, but the surfing scenes are spectacular.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Something just feels right about a girl-power movie in which the football players are the spoiled, clueless ones and the rough-around-the-edges surfer girls look far more world-weary and tough.

| Jan 30, 2020

Stockwell never manages to connect the water footage to the story, to make the waves a character or a metaphor for what's happening on land - except in the sense that this film is never wetter than when it gets out of the ocean and back to the plot.

| Feb 1, 2018

Affable yet forgettable...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2011

Tough yet tender surfer heroine story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Sporting a cast of up-and-coming actresses, John Stockwell's surfing flick offers up a slice of entertainment that acknowledges its roots and whose throw away pleasures arrive with no guilt.

| Jul 2, 2008

When the movie attempts to tell a story on land, you might want to bring along a flashlight and a magazine.

| Original Score: C | Jul 23, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Proves to indeed be the formulaic bore it appears to be, however nicely dressed up (or undressed, depending on one's perspective) it is.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2005

Stockwell has made half of a good movie. Now he needs to figure out how to craft a film with words worthy of the beauty of its images.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 6, 2004

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 6, 2003

Apesar de um ou outro dilogo se render ao clich do "vena-seus-medos!", o filme bem realizado, conta com protagonistas carismticas e transforma o surfe em um esporte com incrvel apelo cinematogrfico.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

Surfing is not a particularly complex thing to figure out from the outside, but here 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2003

The target audience should go home wanting a surfboard for Christmas.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2003

Surfing is extreme sport, but only so-so cinema. When you've seen one wave, you've seen them all: so it soon looks. All the babes who do the surfing in John Stockwell's youth-cult romance also come off an assembly line of blonde bimbos.

| Apr 5, 2003