Waiting for Lightning
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  1. olof
    Apr 9, 2013
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. quite a nice story about Danny Way. A big minus is that there's a lot of advertisment in the movie. Even his mum have a t-shirt with a big logo of one of the brands behind the movie. It also gets redicilous towards the end when he skates on big ramp filled with logos, close-ups of his DC-shoes and him drinking a certain brand of soda watching the landscape. Almost funny.… Expand
  2. MarcDoyle
    Dec 14, 2012
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The critics who diminished this film because they didn't hear enough from Danny are selling the film short. I've seen just about all the recent films in this genre (Dogtown and Z-Boys, Riding Giants, Step into Liquid, etc.), and I think this one is highly inspirational in its own right. You hear enough from Danny to understand his motivations. And we hear so much from celebrities and athletes today (interviews, social media), it's almost refreshing to see a guy who lets his performances and his grace speak for him. The tragic losses of Danny's male role models definitely help mold who he is, for better or for worse, but he's an incredible role model for what hard work and persistence can do for you. For a guy who is afraid of heights to do what he does is really unthinkable. Good for DC for making the film happen, and I realize it's the nature of the beast, but the entire film had a Quicksilver/DC Shoes imprint on it which is a bit unusual for a feature film - and it detracted from my enjoyment, but only slightly. It was great seeing Rob Dyrdek and Ken Block supporting Danny on the Great Wall jump. And doing that jump for a second ("third") time on the big day for "personal satisfaction" is just the icing on the cake. It's what true artists and competitors in this game do. For fans of skating, this is a must-see.… Expand

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45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
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  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    Dec 7, 2012
    40
    Eventually, though, Waiting For Lightning suffers greatly from the absence of Way himself.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    Dec 7, 2012
    50
    Unfortunately, the athlete himself simply isn't much of a presence in this documentary, even as the film aims to celebrate him.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jon Caramanica
    Dec 7, 2012
    50
    In this overly sympathetic film he's a superhero without feelings, curiously bloodless except for the moment just before the China jump, when his mother presents him with his stepfather's ashes for inspiration.
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