“Don’t live here, don’t surf here.”
That’s the hostile warning that keeps getting repeated to Nicolas Cage’s nameless Surfer, a visitor to the local Australian beaches where he spent his childhood. It’s Christmas, and he wants to take his teenage son (Finn Little) to ride the waves he grew up surfing before his ex-wife gets him for the rest of the holidays. But once they arrive at the “locals only” beach, they’re met with aggression from a group of bullies who call themselves the Bay Boys, led by the bronzed and enigmatic Scally (a deliciously sinister Julian McMahon), a cult-y figure who has positioned himself as a self-help guru for men who have grown too “soft.”
