It's a movie designed to replicate the confusion of its protagonist, but ultimately reflects the confusion of everyone who made it. Still, it's fun, doesn't overuse psychedelic visuals The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. While it takes problematic behavior to get there, the movie has an inspiring message about how the universe always seeks harmony -- or always allows for something good to happen to counterbalance something bad.
Synopsis: Frank, an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he's in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his. Starring Justin Long, Tommy Flanagan, Katia Winter, Donald Faison, Sheila Vand, and Bill Sage. Gille Klabin's The Wave adds itself to an expansive list of films that use narcotics as a means of unlocking spiritual enlightenment.
The movie, too, is dexterous and The Wave has been called Norway's first disaster movie, and even though the story takes place in a small country, the stakes are high: Kristian. Waves, Shults' most personal film to date, is once again focused on blood relations as a source of comfort and chaos specifically, the Williams, an African-American family living in South Florida (the same territory explored by Barry Jenkins in his Oscar-winning Moonlight). The Wave is not the only movie to convert a social experiment conducted in the United States into a fictionalized plot. When the movie was released the publisher Die Broschüre provided schools with material to help teachers "to prepare the visit to the movie theater" as well as "reviewing it afterwards". The Wave is set in Geiranger, a small tourist town just below Åkerneset, an unstable mountain that is truly expected to collapse one day and destroy the village with an enormous tidal wave. The Wave has all the plot points we've come to expect from disaster movies.
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And sometimes, inevitably, they're "The Wave." Even here, generous viewers might appreciate Long's commitment to the unusual and unexpected. Since this entire project is a concept in search of a movie, Frank needs to learn some life lessons. To kick things off, his friend Jeff (Donald Faison).
The Wave has Justin Long traveling through time with the help of some hallucinogenic drugs in this trippy, surprising comedy. The ultimate conclusion The Wave is building toward could've easily come off as manipulative, and even unearned. Too often, the manic energy to entertain exceeds the science and a two-hour turd polishing clinic. This film was directed by Sam Raimi who did Evil Dead, and written by him and the Coen brothers.