In God's Hands

1998 "To surf 40-foot waves is to put yourself..."
5.4| 1h36m| en
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Three pro surfers - gifted Shane, once-great Mickey and rising young star Keoni travel to Madagascar, Bali and Hawaii in search for the ultimate wave.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
CommentsXp Best movie ever!
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
crsRO "In god's hands" is about a state of mind. It's about rejection of the standard, socially accepted path and the pursuit of true freedom and inner peace. Zalman King put together a great movie flawed only by a weak cast (great surfers, bad actors). The major plot flaws are the silly action sequence at the beginning and the Keoni illness part which is way too long, disrupting the rhythm of the movie. There aren't too many movies like this one, Zalman King and Matt George deserve all the respect for trying to make a difficult story work as a movie. The cinematography is simply amazing, John Aronson is a master of his craft. The 4.5 stars rating is ridiculous and while I'm not saying this is a fantastic movie I'm really upset that so many people missed the point completely. Maybe they like Break Point and Drop Zone, and that's fine, but giving such low ratings to a movie which is so honest and pure is totally undeserved. See the movie, you won't regret it.
sk8alwayz ok, the story line isnt the best. But what surfing movie would it be if it had a good story line. to be quite honest i didnt mind the plot. as a surfer i understood totally what they were thinking. its just about every surfers dream to ride the "perfect" and "biggest" waves. only the lucky surfers live that dream. i give this, as a surfing movie a 8 out of 10... you carnt go past "the endless summer" the king of all surf movies
andy-485 I am working as a lifeguard in many places all over the world...These movie is the greatest i have seen - these waves - these guys...If you like watersports - it is a must!!I was in waves 6-7 meters - but in this movie - wohhh!
Jaime N. Christley If it weren't for the stunning footage of surfing in this film, it wouldn't even be worth writing about, let alone watching.The writing, dialogue and story, is so ghastly, it's difficult to tell what Zalman King was thinking. Does he hate the sport? Did he realize that the highly polished, kinetically charged surfing sequences would have made a great documentary, and so he decided to show his contempt for them by slapping on empty-headed melodrama?In the beginning there's some ludicrous high jinks in some African country (name of the country? I don't know -- New Orleans, I think, or maybe Hong Kong), followed by some scenes aboard a freighter (a freighter with no discernable purpose, manned by a crew of three), followed by a sequence at a surfer training camp (?), followed by scenes wherein one of the main characters gets struck down with a terrible sickness (yellow fever? small pox? heat cramps?), and then gets well. It ends with a bunch of surfing followed by a bunch of surfing.The dialogue is hollowed-out, cheesy ersatz Kerouac, mostly from a fellow who talks into a tape recorder for some vague future purpose (Dennis Hopper in "The American Friend," anyone?)On the upshot, if there was money spent on anything for "In God's Hands," it was the film stock and the cameras. Rarely has cinematography been this glisteningly, unabashedly beautiful, without a specific color scheme suited to the story (i.e. war movies, westerns). It rivals anything John Toll achieved in his photography for "The Thin Red Line." In the end, however, this film is reduced to being a ninety-six minute screen saver, and belongs in the same trash bin as Hype Williams' "Belly" and Claude Lelouche's "A Man and a Woman."