Making Waves

Obviously not filmed anywhere in the southeast of the United States...there are no mountains near our beaches! Watched this because OBX is one of my favorite places to vacation, when I leave my home in Virginia Beach, and was sorely disappointed at the first shot of "The Outer Banks" when I saw ot looked nothing like anything even remotely near this area....almost not sre I want to finish watching this, but will try push through, depsite the review already posted. Maybe someone should scout locations a little better to at least come close for those of us who are familiar with these areas..........................

Hallmark seems to have this obsession lately with high school exes getting back together after many years apart. And in all of these movies, these couples broke up in high school after a weak misunderstanding rather than the far more obvious issue breaking up high school couples: They grew up and moved on. Why have none of these people moved on?

There isn't enough drama here. The main couple falls back together without any effort, which doesn't make for a good movie. I prefer the movies where there is a spark of excitement about meeting someone new rather than running over old ground.

I agree with other comments. If you are going to include the location as part of your storyline then you should film a good chunk of the movie on location.

I'm getting a little tired of this premise. Music agent sent to her home town to check out a new band. A promotion is at stake. The boss keeps pressuring. The boss is overly controlling and this one is cliche, no she is worse than that. And if you love overused plot devices, there is a big development company looking at sucking up everything in the small town, so save the family business.

The fact that Amelia's high school boy friend is the lead of the band she's looking for might have been interesting, but that cat is out of the bag pretty early not to mention network previews gave that away. Were they going for that shock moment. If so, they blew all the suspense. The tension in the story is about signing F8's. So the way both of them act regarding the band makes no sense at first although that gets better.

The two main supporting actors are really bad.

The movie takes good advantage of the music venue. There is some original music.

The conflict, climax and ending go exactly like so many other movies in this genre, except for the part that is over the top sappy just before the final songs.

A nice Hallmark romance, decent for fair explore of familiar theme and not bad use of well known recipe, in some measure charming for the work of Holland Roden - who gives honest sparkles to the traces of her character , vulnerable but strong - and Corey Cott who has good sense of humor and...voice.

I loved the eulogy of friendship so interesting , precise and realistic proposed by this film and, sure, the old solutions to crisis moments in Hallmark tradition.

Not ignoring what is reasonable to expect for this kind of film, it is just charming for the serious work of young lady, the return to high school years and the love from yesterday becoming coherent reality.

British Columbia is a sad substitute. Will Hollywood ever get it?

The film is OK but sadly is just using OBX to sell a movie. I can only think of one that comes close, Nights in Rodanthe. I am only speaking of movies. Message in a bottle was the worst location wise.

Why? Cost? Then call it something else. Why not SC or GA if desperate for a location.

Meanwhile, the characters are fleshed out fairly well. Story is OK but this is a Hallmark formula movie as are so many others. Predictable, boss is also predictable. Friends too. Money hungry Real Estate developers etc. At least it isn't about Christmas.

Starting to wonder why I watched. That is on me.