This is another one of *those* movies, you know the kind. The kind that starts out pretty decent (5.5 scraping the barrel territory, but still) and then out of nowhere gets into some forced religious message about someone finding God. (looking at you Cokeville Miracle)Stay away! Stay far away!PS Its not just that there is a religious message here. I've enjoyed several films with religious/spiritual themes before (Book of Eli) but its just so ridiculously hamfisted, shoe-horned and badly written here.PPS the films marketing deserves a special note, it doesn't make it clear at all that there is a religious message here. It seems like its deliberately set up to bring "unbeliefers" to the fold.

Having used IMDb for 4 years, I just created my account here in order to review this movie.I put this movie on for my wife who is very much interested in surfing. I won't waste my time going into much detail about it; the first 80 minutes were not too disappointing, taking us around the world to beautiful locations and with a fair amount of surfing.But then it starts: the final 10-minute non-stop in-your-face attempt at religious conversion. The producers apparently thought it clever to lure unsuspecting viewers 80 minutes into the movie, make them expect a satisfying / love story ending... and then hit them with their real message once they had invested this time. The whole train of the movie is derailed as it veers 90 degrees off course and the viewer is left asking what in the heck just happened.Is Christianity so desperate for donors that it needs to employ these pathetic tactics?

I am a Christian. But I am really saddened by this movie. And I am tempted to the verge of saying I am ashamed to put my Christian vote to this. Not because of what it tries to portray, but how it is being portrayed. The acting is sad, the message is so predictable, and the great scenery are spoilt by the message and the acting. Its also very bad directing too, because the scenes does not transition well. No wonder those who are against Christianity are having a laugh at us, because we hold movies like these high and invite non-Christians to come and watch it with us, as if it's gonna blow them out of the water. No way!!, not this movie. I've really seen better Christian movies out there, and 'The Perfect Wave' is not one of them. Really awful and painful to watch. I thought with the presence of Cheryl Ladd and Scott Eastwood, it may a great movie. I watched with my 15 year old son, but both of us were highly disappointed.

Caution: If you are about to watch the movie then you are going to get a free Church Service and donations are accepted.Its about a young man falling in "love" for the first time, HOLD ON A MIN its in "Gods love"BTW the lead actor is son of Clint Eastwood and he has not inherited any professional qualities from his Father or at least for this movie Its basically produced by a Church, to make you realize that at the end of 90mins even Jesus would have hated this movie.And a little advice to the director that you don't need so many characters for this story and they are awful actors, You should have pull the story with hardly 5 characters who are best at it.Did the dude sold his Ferrari to do the Traveling? because he traveled like Bruce Wayne