kentbartholomew Rarely do you watch a movie with so many recognizable names that is this bad and by bad I mean every facet of this movie is bad. Tinny, grating, soundtrack, confusing plot (I'm being generous to call it a plot)ad-hoc script and ridiculously unbelievable characters. How Emilio Estevez who strolls through for a couple of scenes, Harry Dean Stanton who is only on camera for one scene and Dennis Leary ever became involved in this debacle is truly mind-boggling. In the case of Dennis Leary's character it's almost like they wedged his role in at the last minute for name recognition, as his role has nothing to do with the plot. His screen time is spent just delivering Dennis Leary stand-up type monologue. Pretty much all of his scenes sound ad-lib. Ditto with Jon Lovitz and Julie Delpy. Adding to the misery is an out of place acoustic number with Kari Wuhrer and Michael Vartan on guitar. We won't even get into the uncomfortably creepy relationship between Wuhrer and Norman Reedus who plays her surfer dude brother. How many siblings kiss each other on the mouth? It was like they were originally going to have the characters they play be former lovers then decided to go another direction without editing the film. The list of missteps goes on and on.My only regret is that I have to give this film one star as IMDb won't let me give it zero. A real stinker.

Thomas Ferreira I thought the movie story wise had a conceivable plot. It was just executed poorly. I thought Norman Reedus did a great job with what he had but it wasn't much. The character development was bare little to none which didn't leave the actors with much to do. Michael Vartan was not a good lead for this movie. He was very wooden. Also with the little amount of character development it didn't leave you caring about any of the characters including Kari. I have thought about buying this movie so I could rewrite it and give more character development and depth. My favorite scene was actually the scene that involves Reedus and his friends confronting the two brothers after his sister is nearly raped. It was shot well and acted well. Beyond that, everything else was subpar. The movie just had so much potential and it was executed poorly.

Logic404 What a waste of energy and money. What a waste of what talent there was.Emilio Estevez was completely wasted and mostly unused throughout. Jon Lovitz was very mildly amusing but pointless. Harry Dean Stanton - why bother? And was it just me or can Kari Wuhrer barely act in this one.The story was pretty non-existent and really disjointed. One of my biggest problems was the reaction of the characters to the events that transpired. Like the surf "dudes" giving up their lives every time they were threatened in the last half? How about that you NEVER saw them surf once!! The set-up to some scenes took way to long with not enough pay-off to make us give a damn. Nothing in this "movie" felt really true or genuine.The only good things I can say is some (very little) of the scenery was filmed nicely and a few scenes were mildly interesting. Don't see this when there is so many better pointless movies out there.

andertonmark The ONLY reason I bothered with this at all is because of Kari Wuhrer, who is one of the sexiest women in the movies today. Unfortunately despite the bad language, drugs, violence and low budget effort of the film, it was so low budget they could not even afford for her to have partial nudity...Dennis Leary is actually the films strongest character, and delivers his lines with the same larconic smirking as in everything else he has been in.The story is generated in the post Pulp Fiction era, but lacks any of the character building, or intelligent script writing of a Tarantino.For all that, it is a good "pass the time" film for an insomniac sometime after midnight. There is a gradual escalation of hostilities between the beach bums and the hard nosed family, with Tyler caught in the middle.There are reflections of male bull headed behaviour, together with laddish immaturity, as well as camaraderie and pride.All in all, it is a film that paints every bad aspect of 20th century man into one film.