The Surfer - Reviews

It’s a low-budget, hard-hitting comic bruiser of a picture: a midlife-crisis movie dressed up as a 1970s exploitation flick.

…has cult classic written all over it...

…an over the top, must not miss film.

It’s a surreal, somewhat psychedelic riff on Hitchcockian suspense.

...if you stick with it, it will leave you with respect for its unique artistic commentary and give you something unsettling and strangely resonant to think about for days to come.

Cage has never been less than immensely watchable in any movie, good or bad.

...a tense thriller in the scorching sun.

Crisp visuals and a hypnotic soundtrack complete the dive into 70s-era Ozploitation, topped off with a typically self-deprecating performance from one of cinema’s most versatile figures.

...is a confluence of Cage’s contemporary work: grounded by loss, nostalgia, and old misgivings, like Michael Sarnoski’s Pig, but drifting about on a cloud of surreality.

...is what you might call a slow-burn Cage.