A 75-90 minute storyline dragged out into a 143 minute snoozefest. Pitt and Blanchett, the main reason most would turn to this, are really bit players in the overall tableau and add nothing by their presence other than their name draw. Minimal English (maybe a quarter of the dialogue) with many subtitles during Spanish, Arabic and Japanese scenes. Much of the film is random shots that the Director uses to fill time to try and make up for a very flimsy and poorly developed simplistic plot.
Blanchett, playing an American tourist, is shot early in the movie while riding in a tour bus in Morocco. A widowed Japanese businessman has an oversexed virgin deaf-mute daughter with some serious psychological problems. A Moroccan father gives his two young sons a rifle to try and keep jackals away from the goats. A Hispanic nanny takes two American children to a relative's wedding in Mexico. All are connected and the movie eventually shows you how - though the writing has given it all away early on leaving little to do but wait and wait and wait until the film finally ends the misery - if you can keep from nodding off.
Blanchett, playing an American tourist, is shot early in the movie while riding in a tour bus in Morocco. A widowed Japanese businessman has an oversexed virgin deaf-mute daughter with some serious psychological problems. A Moroccan father gives his two young sons a rifle to try and keep jackals away from the goats. A Hispanic nanny takes two American children to a relative's wedding in Mexico. All are connected and the movie eventually shows you how - though the writing has given it all away early on leaving little to do but wait and wait and wait until the film finally ends the misery - if you can keep from nodding off.