Cage is rattled

Men will be mental and boys will be bonkers in Irish director Lorcan Finnegan's sun-scorched psychological thriller.

- DAMON SMITH

Drenched in toxic, chest-beating machismo, The Surfer slowly winds up Nicolas Cage like a clockwork toy before unleashing the Oscar-winning actor to deliver his trademark performance of steadily mounting madness.

A nameless father (Cage) returns to Australia to buy his childhood home which has just come on the market.