Brilliant and touching

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is a horrible movie. They make the Muslim family look like they are bad people. This movie makes the American family look like they did not do anything wrong. First of all Jason should not even mess with this family to begin with. He disrespected her family. They are a royal family. This is a very bad movie because Muslims should stay with Muslims. Americans should stay with Americans. As you can see, they divorced in the end. The Muslim royal family are trying to protect their daughter from the American. He took her away and did not get penalized. He should of been sent to jail for life. He married her in a stupid chapel in Vegas (SIN CITY). The Muslims should have disciplined Mariam before she came to the country of America. Now she went from being a princess to an American divorced girl. If she would have married a Muslim, she would stay married. She did the wrong decision. It reminds me of the movie "Not without my daughter." Another bad movie, she was acting so stupid. She stole the kid and ran away. What a bad women. People make her a star. How ridiculous!!!!!!!

This is a pleasant movie - and some would opine it's worth more than a '6' - but it's too hasty in many ways.Both 'Zack' and Nichols are fantastic, and especially Nichols brings a great warmth to the screen and her relationship there with MPG. (Perchance she will credit this to Cruise and her other LRH schoolmates? What a shame. And her name sounds like a spray you use to fight athlete's foot.) And it's well written and all around well directed and acted.But it's all too hasty. The girl has hardly met her Marine and she's totally in love. Were that to happen to me, I'd run for it. Sorry, but you'd have to be some kind of totally hard up Marine or something to get swooped up by it. No, things like this take a little more time than a phone call or two and a walk around the city dump.And then there's the other matter: this movie is probably all washed up as far as further market potential as the famous couple who were plastered all through the media have now gone their separate ways. After five years of marriage they applied for a divorce in the same town where they were once married and where they continued to live afterwards.After death threats, after the FBI warned them a Syrian, 500,000 dollars richer, was coming to the Strip to assassinate Meriam, after Jason tired of eking out an existence as a valet parker while Meriam disappeared night after night into the neon, Jason accepted Meriam's request for divorce and revealed that she'd been 'off the deep end' already for a year.The real life couple are cute but are they as cute as the on screen couple? N-o-t q-u-i- t-e.It could have been better - if time had been given to more character development. But these are made for television movies and they must play by their own rules. And it could have been an immense commercial success - more so than now - if only the couple had 'lived happily ever after'.It's not nice to second guess people or tell them to chill out - for people should always follow their hearts without question - but a bit more experience and savvy will never hurt either. Maybe the real life couple were too hasty?

Good movie no doubt. Great story. I've seen the real couple on talk show Oprah about a year ago.However i read the paper yesterday, 1 Dec 2004, and the couple (marine & princess) have filed for divorce. The court has declared the marriage is no longer competent: divorce. Blame it on the Vegas night life, in-laws, or whatever. It remains a pity, especially since the tale was to be an inspiration for lovers, not a tragedy. Many of us will be disappointed. Maybe a visit to the TajMahal in India at night, a love-monument, would have done them good. But now it's too late. They both went through so much trouble and danger, and so many extra miles, and now this? That's a twist, albeit not a surprise, seeing marriage statistics in general these days...

This is a good love story with a happy ending and it's a true story, Marisol Nichols shines as Princess Meriam. If you like romance this one is an unmissable treat. Bahrainies it appears are not happy with this story, as it shows how closed and restricted even the most liberal gulf state is.