One hell of a trip 🌊😵‍💫🌀

I've been a fan of Justin Long since my mischievous years as a teenager. The first movie I ever watched with him in it was Jeepers Creepers. That was a great film, but his comedic potential wasn't really unleashed. It wasn't until I watched Waiting... and Accepted with my neighborhood buddy that I really started to appreciate this dude.

Justin Long certainly hasn't grown to be as famous of an actor as his former co-stars Ryan Reynolds, Seth Rogen, or Jonah Hill. He has however built up a decent filmography, so I am sure that you have seen him in a movie or tv show at some point.

The Wave is an interesting and trippy film that stars Justin Long as Frank and his buddy Jeff who is played by Donald Faison. Frank is a life insurance agent and as we all know, insurance companies like to do everything in their power to avoid paying out on a policy. Frank found a loophole on a very big case, so his bosses are giving him a promotion. The single ladies man Jeff invites Frank to go out and celebrate later that night, but Frank is married and has a wife waiting for him at home so he declines and leaves Jeff hanging.

Frank's wife is pretty lame, she is worried about things that Frank simply does not carry about. He begins to realize that marriage is a sham and it may not be for him. His wife doesn't do anything wrong necessarily, but she just isn't fun. She wasn't at all a fan of the idea of Frank going out with Jeff, since Jeff screwed over one of her friends. She decides to go to bed well before 10 PM that night and leaves Frank bored and alone. He can't resist and hits up Jeff, who of course is still down to go party.

Frank thought if he just went out for a bit that it couldn't bring any harm. This was a big risk since he was supposed to give an important presentation at work the next morning about his big breakthrough with the policy. You can imagine things do not go as planned.

Jeff takes Frank to some nasty bar in a bad part of town and they end up meeting some girls pretty much right away. Jeff and his woman Natalie (Katia Winter) hit it off and it leaves Frank and the other girl named Theresa (Sheila Vand) to talk alone. They have some chemistry, but Frank is hesitant to pursue it since he is married.

Before you know it they all leave the bar together and end up at some wild house party. Frank is totally out of place and starts to feel anxious because of it. He adopts an anything-goes attitude in an attempt to look cool. Theresa and Frank end up in some back room with a dude and some girls who are doing a rare psychedelic drug. They never say what the drug is, but it is in some kind of demonic-looking bottle. I assume it is something powerful and maybe not even a real drug. The only way for the drug to work is if one person puts the drug on their tongue and then tongue kisses another person. Frank doesn't want the random dude kissing this new girl he has a crush on, so he seizes the moment and goes for it.

Keep in mind that Frank hasn't partied hard with drugs since back in college. He has been out of the game for a while, plus this hallucinogen was something that he had never tried before. He was out of his mind in no time and it is hilarious to watch the guy struggle. I know what it is like to lose yourself in things such as psilocybin and DMT, so I know how crazy it can feel to try these types of mind-altering substances.

The next morning Frank wakes up and cannot remember a thing. He is in the same exact room, except all by himself and now it is trashed. He eventually links up with Jeff again, but Jeff didn't do the drug the previous night and instead spent his time hooking up with Natalie. He tells Frank that the psychedelics should wear off in a few more hours, but it never happens.

The guy who gave the psychedelics is very mysterious. He never fully explained what he was giving them and also didn't charge them anything to get high. You are left in the dark about it all just like Frank and it makes you feel like your reality is bent just like his.

Frank wants to find Theresa and Jeff feels obligated to help. They run around town and struggle to locate her. Eventually, they run into Natalie and she takes them to who she assumed "the drug dealer" was. Sadly it turns out to be the wrong guy since the guy that gave Frank and Theresa the drug claimed to not be a dealer. This new drug dealer wants to help Frank come down, for a price of course.

Frank has no money and also his reality is skewed in the weirdest of ways. He keeps teleporting and seeing/hearing all sorts of odd stuff. He somehow gets the bright idea that doing every drug in his sight will alleviate his symptoms. That equals stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from this drug dealer, which becomes a massive problem.

You will be shocked to know what actually happened to Theresa that night. Frank definitely didn't see it coming either. He came out of all of this with a totally different view of his own reality. After the crazy night and day that he had, he's pretty much sold on the idea that being in this realm of otherworldly stuff is better than his actual life. I will leave it to you to see what I mean by that.

I really enjoyed the trip that The Wave took me on. It reminded me of the first time I smoked DMT back in 2012 and had no idea what it was at the time, it changed my view of the world forever. There are so many wild instances from this crazy movie that I left out of this writing, but I feel like I've done my best to convince you that this one is worth watching sometime. I'll close this one out by leaving you with the trailer for the movie. Hopefully, you decide that this film is for you and can enjoy it.