This is possibly the very worst movie I have ever seen.The camera-work is terrible. It was awkward and there was no movement. There were too many static shots. The scenes were awkward.The sound was terrible. Bad mistakes were made like not mixing properly or not adding atmosphere. Voices were overdubbed and you could really tell because they didn't bother to add background sounds in. I've seen many student projects with much better sound.The story bears almost no resemblance to the story on which it is based. Listening to a 5 minute clip of the man on who the story is based is much better. That's pretty bad considering that they used an incredible amount of resources to make a feature.Most of the film is spent surfing all over the world, which isn't entirely integral to the story and probably cost a lot of unnecessary money.The cast seemed universally terrible, which would indicate that the directing wasn't great. Some of the cast members weren't actors and you could really tell.There's really no reason to watch this movie, not even if you are a Christian hoping to support the Christian filmmakers and cast of the movie. The movie makes Christians out to be hippy freaks that just read You Version and lose all interest in the activities that they love. This movie certainly did more harm than good to Christianity.

This is a bad movie, and I hate to say that, because people who made it probably liked it. But it's so bad. I feel like I lost an hour I will never get back :/ This is a movie about a young man, Ian played by Scott Eastwood, who is trying to find his place in the world. He is a surfer and wants to find his perfect wave to complete his life's wish. While on his pursuit he meets a girl and falls in love with her, but she just walks out on him after a misunderstanding, she is so important in one minute, and puff she's gone in the second. Also, unlike his mother he is not religious, but through a near death experience he realizes God is always with him.First of all, the acting and the dialogue are bad - everything is forced and actors are uptight.I just didn't like this movie. Every scene was forced, like they were all just reading from the script and not feeling anything. Child Ian was particularly bad at acting - that was hard to watch. Flashback scenes and retelling of the memories was unnecessary, I think we would have realized his mother has a connection with God without that, and we would have realized Ian has his differences with God. Also Ian's voice overs were not needed, I have a feeling they were just a filler in the movie, so there was no need for more bad dialogs.I feel like the story is on fast forward, everything is happening so fast, like they were trying to fit a lot of action in an hour, and the audio was to clear, we could hear everything even with waves crashing all around. The songs were to loud, and they took to much time, it was like watching a musical.It's just bad.

I can't remember having ever seen such a bad acted film. Ever! Wooden acting throughout by all, really all, actresses/actors. Awful music choice. Too loud and too bad.The no longer young man starts out to find his perfect wave. You don't know where from he actually starts out until they mention it way into the film. If I would have had that mother I would not have waited until I was 24 - I would have run away as soon as I could. Dear, she was either stupidly grinning or telling her story how she found Jesus, or crying or praying while crying and rolling on the floor. You sit there and watch and think what is that all about? I can understand a strong bond between mother and child, but that was so over-dramatic and inexplicable - it just left one wondering and hoping that they finish that scene soon.Is that film just a way to sell religion? The end was seriously the worst choice in a film full with bad choices from the beginning. Why do you have to get the man who inspired the movie to get his 3 min of preaching time? And write the name of his church in the screen credits, should I go and donate money for a sequel? Join the club, because I converted? Only watchable were the scenes with pure nature without any interruption by bad acting.And who on earth casted the very untalented son of Clint Eastwood? That man should go and find a profession that does not involve talking to an audience.This film proofs there is no god, she would never let us suffer that much.

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