{"id":79367,"date":"2026-08-25T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79367"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:55:59","slug":"review-wakesurf-lovers-movie-review-jeffrey-ngai-renci-yeung-defy-haters-in-uneven-sports-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=79367","title":{"rendered":"Review | Wakesurf Lovers movie review: Jeffrey Ngai, Renci Yeung defy haters in uneven sports drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/08\/24\/93bb42a6-ad0b-4712-8c05-e3c9d2f53f92_8b5c0300.jpg?itok=spIqTGN_&amp;v=1787538789\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">2.5\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A sun-kissed sports film that rather awkwardly tackles <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">wakesurfing<\/span> and cyber-shaming in the same breath, <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Wakesurf Lovers<\/em> offers a fluffy excuse to gaze at beautiful, muscled torsos \u2013 if you can squint past the paper-thin characters, their nebulous motivations and a romance that barely registers.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">A well-regarded screenwriter who has worked with Hong Kong film titans such as <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Stephen Chow Sing-chi<\/span>, Fung Chih-chiang is notably less reliable as a writer-director of his own films, sometimes fumbling his offbeat, borderline refreshing premises and creating a prevailing sense of tonal whiplash instead.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This pattern continues in <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Wakesurf Lovers<\/em>. While it has the potential to be a romantic and inspirational comedy-drama about two loners drawn together by a water sport, the film also demoralises the viewer whenever it mires itself in the toxic realm of internet witch-hunts, depicted here with the most puerile imagery possible.<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"methode-html-wrapper oembed-wrapper e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"e2gky7d0 e1drg7e30 e1ciypty0 ehdmpxk0 css-1avyp1d e1hpd36k0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<div class=\"e1hpd36k3 css-79hwxn e1x11wau0\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-VideoTitleContainer\"><default:svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"25\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 25\" fill=\"none\" data-qa=\"SCMPYouTubeVideoFooter-StyledVideoRecorder\" class=\"css-1nnwg93 e1x11wau1\"><default:path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M22 6.22926V18.4315L17.5463 13.9868V17.8655C17.5463 18.1618 17.4383 18.4248 17.2228 18.6531C17.0067 18.8829 16.7498 18.9967 16.4537 18.9967H3.13414C2.80989 18.9967 2.53968 18.8829 2.32425 18.6531C2.10808 18.4248 2 18.1618 2 17.8655V6.79519C2 6.49893 2.10808 6.23665 2.32425 6.00688C2.53968 5.77858 2.80989 5.66333 3.13414 5.66333H16.4537C16.7498 5.66333 17.0067 5.77858 17.2228 6.00688C17.4383 6.23665 17.5463 6.49893 17.5463 6.79519V10.674L22 6.22926Z\" fill=\"#001246\"\/><\/default:svg><\/p>\n<p>\u300a\u6d6a\u82b1\u7537\u5973\u300b\u7d42\u6975\u9810\u544a\u767b\u5834 8.27\u6b63\u5f0f\u4e0a\u6620 8.1\u8d77\u512a\u5148\u5834<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Jeffrey Ngai Tsun-sang (<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Road to Vendetta<\/em><\/span>) plays Rio Wu, a film school graduate and self-professed \u201cslacker\u201d who fails to draw eyeballs to his landscape photography portfolio online \u2013 despite his own blinding, albeit unacknowledged, good looks. Then he takes up trolling at the urging of his schoolmate Rizz (Henick Chou Han-ning).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3365007\/wakesurf-lovers-movie-review-jeffrey-ngai-renci-yeung-defy-haters-uneven-sports-drama?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.5\/5 stars A sun-kissed sports film that rather awkwardly tackles wakesurfing and cyber-shaming in the same breath, Wakesurf Lovers offers a fluffy excuse to gaze&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[28882,8816,2376,3275,11654,1543,11467,28881,28,89,28883,28880,25264],"class_list":["post-79367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-defy","tag-drama","tag-haters","tag-jeffrey","tag-lovers","tag-movie","tag-ngai","tag-renci","tag-review","tag-sports","tag-uneven","tag-wakesurf","tag-yeung","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}