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.
Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) is the perfectly sculpted girl from the wrong side of the tracks who works as a room maid, shacks up with little sister, but has aspirations to ride on the crest of the right big one in the Piper Masters contest in Hawaii.
Then she meets rich kid Matt (Matthew Davis II) who pays for lessons on her board with an eye to a soft landing with her in bed.
Will Anne Marie's new-found love and luxury with a champagne-and-waffles breakfast after a night of passion in the hot tub sap her ardour for the homebody beach set?
Probably no film will ever take you so deeply inside, under, above and barrelling through the rollers so well: but even marine photographer David Hennings eventually inspires exhaustion, not exhilaration.
Still, you're left with a millionaire boyfriend when the tide goes out. Better than just a wet bikini.
Blue Crush
Cert: cert12A
