In God's Hands (1998)

it is easy to criticize it. or define as a not the best movie. but it has a great virtue - the honesty. than - a kind of poetic image about a hobby. beautiful images. and something else who reminds a documentary. sure, it is not great or memorable. but it presents a not complicated story in correct manner. the passion, the death, the friendship, the small circle of few people, the personality of each, the advises for survive, the joy, pain and a kind of romanticism who can impress. a film about a risky sport and more than a hobby or competition. the good point is the portrait of a special form of solitude in middle of powerful solidarity. the strange form of hunting, adventure and madness. not the great script, not an extraordinary film. but, most important, a honest one.

What to say about this movie?With all the visuals it is a surfers wet dream, featuring exotic locations, mad waves, good soundtrack and plenty of surfing footage.Sadly, all these put together don't make a good feature film. There seemed to be little flow through the film with cuts between acting and random bits of surfing, back to the actors then back to something else completely. Dorian possibly (although an awesome surfer) has to be the most boring actor ever with little emotion in his acting. If your looking for a thought provoking film then i'd keep walking past this in the video shop- if your looking for waves and surfers, grab this, put some music on and mute the mind numbing script.

This movie would have to be at least one of my favourite movies, i absolutly loved it. I was shown it by my friend, and not being very interested, i payed little attention to it at the start. This is the story of how 3 young men travel round the world surfing, and ending up in hawaii. The 3 boys names are Shane, Micky, and Keoni. They spend alot of time in a place (i can't remember which one) where Keoni gets malaria and burn a giant banner. This is where Shane spends time with his love, and they go to a festival. This is all after they meet ¿Wyatt? who is kind of following Shane who is the best in the world. As I said they end up in Hawaii where they take jet skiis into the massive 60ft waves they crash there, but Micky doesn't believe in it, he belives that modern technology shouldn't be used and it should just be you and surfboard. He paddles into a 65ft wave and gets caught on the seam flips his board and dies. This is where i was confused, i didn't quite understand why he ran away with the rock. though I've hard many theories from my family and friends. Its really sad and i think the movie was very well done. One of the most memorable scenes is where Shane is talking about waves coming from a giant. In the very very end, Shane gets dropped out at sea in Mexico and surfs a 65ft wave with no jet skii and he makes it. I rate this movie 8.5/10

My boyfriend is a surfer and one night I rented this movie for us to watch. When he was out of the room I started it and as soon as he heard the waves crash he ran into the room. The movie is great because it has great action to keep the guys interested but there is an underlying romance between the extremely gorgeous Patrick Shane Dorian and a really pretty costar that makes it a good movie for couples to watch. My boyfriend was very appreciative and I'm sure any other guy would be too.