Kicking off the Summer with 'Malibu Rescue'
A trouble-making teenager spends the summer working at a Southern California beach learning about responsibility.

Jōtarō Fukuhara, known as ‘Joe’, is a ‘locksmith’ who poses as a vagrant to steal corporate secrets and expose wrongdoing. In reality, he is the heir to the Person Group. Years ago, his relationship with Reiko, the daughter of the head of the major advertising agency Bros, was torn apart by his father, Masafumi, leading her to take her own life. Since then, he has never shown his face to his father. However, following his father’s death, he is set to take over as president of the Person Group. Just then, he receives a request to steal a key from a bag bearing a five-pointed star from the safe of Enomoto, the chairman of Bros…
A trouble-making teenager spends the summer working at a Southern California beach learning about responsibility.
There were too many irrelevant parts that could have been shortened, and too many characters that didn't advance the plot. Either way, some things didn't add up. This was just another played out plot with little, if any, originality in it. By the end of the film, I wasn't happy that she finally got her freedom, I was happy that it was finally over.
Mala tripped over in a company Diwali party, which led to unexpected visits and realizations.
Striving for validation. Let’s be frank….we ALL want to be successful. Whatever we put our efforts into, ideally it is to make it culminate in the best possible results across the board, especially when it comes to what career path we are pursuing. We WANT to excel, to shine, to advance, to be acknowledged. AND…let’s hope that we also wish to better everyone around us to boot. However, what occurs when those whom we initially put our trust in suddenly become a burden instead of a boon? Do we falter under the weight of rejection? Or STAND UP for WHO WE ARE?
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.