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You'll love this film if you like Wayans films. I love seeing these guys on screen, they are very funny. Don't listen to all the negative reviews, enjoy the film! :)

I got the honor of seeing this film at a Pre-Screening before it's release and I was very glad i got that opportunity. The film is set in the late 80's, the apartheid days in South Africa where it follows the story of the 2 boy's Otelo and New Year with their dreams to surf. The film was shot very well giving the the circumstances that some of the scenes involved shooting out at sea. I enjoyed most of the images in the film although i wished they could have shown more scenery of the locations they filmed in. Its understandable as the film is set in the 80's, but I believe they achieved what they wanted to portray.

Characters on the film where enjoyable to watch, Jafta playing Otelo could have done his scenes better as his emotion lacked in some areas of the film, his friend New Year, Narrator of the film did an exceptional job with his character and the narration of the film. The humor was quite funny an enjoyable as well. Overall the film is a fun ride as you get to experience surfing, as seen through the lives of young black teenagers.

This desrves a 8/10. Go out and see the film. Great South African Cinema.

I went to see this film with my lady and I must say, the film looks extremely impressive, by that i'm referring to the visuals. Incredible visual effects and the aliens in this film look very terrifying, coupled with the music, but that's just it for this film.

It felt very rushed towards the end, but maybe that's just me, but i wasn't happy with the abrupt ending. Characters of this film where very flat, i guess blame the writers. One thing I loved was Rihanna's performance in this film, her very first feature and she well looked like a seasoned actor. The rest of the characters where just mehh. Liam Neesen was Liam Neesen, bad ass as always but he simply didn't appear enough, But non the less all the characters carried the film through.

The aliens are super dumb, sorry to say but they are. How the hack do they have such awesome technology beats me. They looked pretty awesome though, but they don seem intelligent enough. The plot was pretty average, "aliens wanna kill us, lets kill them first" kinda thing, that was it really. Its good that there where moments when i thought its over for earth, but yeah, you know the deal. If you liked the Transformers series, I believe you'll like this film cause the visual effects are AMAZING! Life Like.

Go see this film in the theater, its a real visual treat. But you can still catch the Blu-Ray when it comes out.