THE SURFER
FLIM
Wipeout! Nicolas Cage as The Surfer.
Benched
; Julian McMahon’s Scally brings the bad vibes.
NICOLAS CAGE CATCHES SOME GNARLY WAVES, BRAH
★★★★
OUT 9 MAY / CERT TBC / 99 MINS
DIRECTOR Lorcan Finnegan
CAST Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn
PLOT A man (Cage) looking to buy a house in a seaside community comes into increasingly violent conflict with a territorial group of surfers.
WE NEVER LEARN the name of Nicolas Cage’s character in The Surfer. (He is credited simply as ‘The Surfer’.) It might, then, be tempting to think that this film —which features yet another Cage character slowly descending into madness —is simply an example of the ‘Nicolas Cage Type’, of ‘Cage Rage’, of the kind of uniquely bizarre freakout that has for years provided ample fodder for meme-merchants and YouTube compilation editors.