We haven’t seen the movie yet but already the reviews are coming in for Chasing Mavericks, and not surprising, they’re not good. Here’s a piece of one from The Wrap.
[Chasing Mavericks is] a biopic that features not enough stirringly gorgeous surfing footage and way too many clunky biopic clichés in telling the story of surf legend Jay Moriarity. With a storyline as by-the-numbers as a square dance, the movie’s one surprise comes with the closing credits — namely, that this trite “inspirational” movie is the product of two world-class filmmakers, Curtis Hanson and Michael Apted.
Ouch. But don’t that that keep you from seeing it. The San Francisco Chronicle liked it:
“Chasing Mavericks” breaks through the cliches associated with surfer movies – the carefree beach party fantasies, the fake mysticism – and offers a portrait that has a lot more integrity. In this telling, the really serious surfers, the big wave guys, are anything but happy-go-lucky airheads.
Plus, Abigail Spencer is in it, according to the NY Daily News. So we still might have a hard time waiting for the iTunes version.
[Link: The Wrap, SF Chronicle and NY Daily News]
