Save your money for something good and enjoyable

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Geologist Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette) is stuck with babysitting Hiromitsu Tachibana around the Australian desert looking at mining operations. He's the son of the boss of a giant Japanese conglomerate. She's hoping to sell them her computer program. He's demanding, clueless and insecure. She's loud. There is a cultural and language barrier. They get stuck out in the middle of the desert. They fall for each other and then it all ends.Hiromitsu is off-putting. If the movie is simply about them ending up in a life altering friendship, this would be a great movie. The cultural differences are a little too silly at times. The romance is really silly. These two characters have so little chemistry that they may have negative chemistry. It is to the credit of Toni Collette that it works in any fashion at all. After the "incident", she gets to stretch out and the movie turns into something more.

A Japanese businessman visits Australia and is given a tour of the land by a geologist, although they can't stand each other from the get go. Although it's not clear where the story is going, it becomes engaging as the relationship develops between the Japanese man and the Australian woman despite their cultural differences. About half way through the film, however, a random event takes place that totally changes the mood and direction of the movie. From that point on it just rambles aimlessly before finishing with a whimper. The two halves are like watching two different movies. It's just an odd script. Collette is fine as usual, as is Tsunashima.

Weak plot, no character development, seriously dumb dialogs. The male main character is a shame for all men and as previously mentioned its a humiliation of the Japanese: he shows weakness so many times it is very annoying, (spoiler alert) even in the "sex scene" I felt he is being raped by the female character. I did not even get how these two developed any chemistry over extremely silly conversations, the intellectual level was like listening to 4 year old not adults. The only value in the film is some nice scenic shots, however it dragged out the movie which made it even more boring. The closing scene is completely illogical. I do not get how could this receive so many Australian awards ( I live in Australia for the last 3 years) it is not even a good film on the Australian scene, watch Candy if you would like to see a good OZ movie, but this is outrageously horrible, I wish I could vote 0 to drop the current rating even more.

I actually don't know why I watched the whole thing. It's very serious and awkward. Especially the sex scene when the woman takes off her clothes, then puts HIS pants on? I'm not sure what was going on here, but I just couldn't get into it. Someone said it was a lot like the Painted Veil, and yes, maybe so except for the fact that I liked the Painted Veil. There's little music. And the whole movie was just bad and poorly put together... it doesn't seem very cohesive to me. It didn't make sense.... after they do it while she wears his pants, she asks to get her things back from his room. So she carries her bra, in her hands, out in the open, back to her car. I've been stuck in the desert before too and everyone knows you put rocks or sticks or something hard underneath the tires... they just clowned around. BAD movie. Bad. Bad. Bad.