Billabong Odyssey

Philip Boston's ambitious documentary follows elite surfers invited to compete in a three-year odyssey of riding some of the world's largest waves, but the slim story gets swamped by the stunning visuals. Most of the boarders are professional competitors, and highlights of their careers are scattered throughout. Using high-tech weather technology to track wave patterns and bring the surfers to the big swells, the filmmakers hope one of them will encounter the supreme wave. Their endeavor is made possible by the relatively new and increasingly popular practice of tow-in surfing, in which surfers are strapped to their boards and dragged by jet-ski into otherwise unreac...