Review by Brad Briggs II
The movie starts off with a scene very similar to the opening of Shooter (Wahlberg), James a sniper, and Tim his spotter doing their duty in a foreign country. Decisions are made that both men have to then live with after coming home from active duty. Time jumps ahead 2 years, when they are on a road trip, James, Tim and his girlfriend Martha. Their end goal is relaxing and surfing on a beach further up the Washington coast, but first two stops, one in Forks, Martha is a Twilight fan who thinks she looks like Bella from the movie, first stop is of course is for the star leaf.
In order to get to the star leaf fields they have to acquire the map from a hippy looking couple out in the forest, before handing over the map they are asked if they know the rules. Basically star leafs location must be kept secret, no pictures, no gps, and no bringing any of it back. Once they arrive at the secret location of the star leaf crop they decide to make camp for the evening and light up some of the leaf they hiked in in for. After convincing James to try some to help with his PTSD, they have a brief visit from a park ranger. This is when they start to see things and have more of a LSD or shroom type trip than a normal weed high. The movie gets pretty trippy as what seems to be aliens are trying to attack them for an unknown reason, but later the group finds out that rules have been broken. Tim had taken some clippings and Martha had taken some selfies in the fields and posted them to social media. They all seem to have different illusions that are only seen by themselves, different things that are troubling them internally.
Once the deeper meaning style plot started up the movie became a little more interesting to me and keeping me going and a little more focused trying to determine what was real, what was not and the whole meaning behind it all. Without spoiling the ending it seems to wrap up some of the questions as to what is going on by the end. Just when you are sitting and thinking back overall it all and listening to the soundtrack over the credits, which I liked most of the music throughout, they tack on a little scene after the credits that was quite a surprise to me.
So the short and sweet of it, it is worth a watch, not a typical weed movie at all. Acting was ok, script and plot was interesting enough to keep my attention. About 3 out of 5 stars for me.
