Best movie of this year hands down!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

How many bad things can be said about this sad attempt at creating hysteria and anti-Islamic riots.First the acting is bad beyond belief and the script funny when it attempts to be serious.For example, the police who recently shot a terrorist at the Rome airport actually disbelieve the Good Professor Rodenni , when he attempts to show the stone merchant is a terrorist.Second how could any women be as stupid as Lieda? Her IQ appears to be that of a house plant and one feels no sympathy for her as she is taken to the bottom of the sea.In any event if you like very very bad movies, please go see this one. You will not be disappointed.

Horrible. The worst possible script. Deplorable acting. A political agenda straight out of the Religious Right. Oh, and worst of all, a mostly naked (shivver!) Harvey Keitel. (That last comment was a spoiler, but it will have saved your eyeballs in case you thought of watching it.) Keitel is supposedly an Italian who was raised in Afghanistan, which is where he converted to Islam. Yet, he speaks with a Chicago accent. F. Murray Abraham is an Islamic terrorist who we can't help feel is really a Jewish man playing his idea of a Muslim. The writer(s?) definitely had an political ax to grind. This is the sort of drivel that keeps us hating one another.Did I mention this was bad? Or that it had no redeeming qualities whatsoever? Bad.

This movie has incredible scenery, excellent acting, and a plot that relentlessly converges toward a horror which is right off the front pages of today's newspapers. The human cost of current events is vividly translated into the tension in a marriage which is the casualty of the zeitgeist of denial and naiveté which pervades the West, pitted against the inexorable dedication demonstrated by radical Islam.The cinematography is breathtaking, both in Europe and in Cappadocia, Turkey. The exotic surroundings of unique scenery including underground cities and fairy chimneys drives home the immense divide between the familiar West and the unfamiliar Islamic world. An absolutely breathtaking dance by the whirling dervishes, accompanied by an explanation of the meaning of the dance illustrates that this divide is far deeper than a geographic one. The reactions of the two westerners form the archetypes which drive the film. The husband is uncomfortable and suspicious, the wife both eager to embrace and credulous. Even the differences in perceived causality are delineated with skill -- was it a chance encounter from a broken fan belt or the will of Allah? The movie builds on this sharp divide, exploring its implications on both a personal level, and in the context of current and future events.You should not miss seeing this film. Obviously it was not made in Hollywood, because it fails the current absolute mandate of political correctness imposed by the dinosaur culture there. It fails to meet the requirement that any evil be tied to America, and actually criticizes a branch of a religion other than Christianity. Keitel was truly courageous to have stuck his neck out to star in this film. From the shock and awe it has caused some of the apologists for radical Islam who are in a lather and giving this movie ones and twos, Keitel will doubtless be blacklisted in the American film industry for years to come.That kind of courage demands that you see it and make up your own mind.

Harvey Keitel once had standards of politics and cinematic quality, but no more. His acting here is the least clumsy among a troupe that'd ruin the reputation of b-grade itself.And the screenplay? Did a Dick Cheney staffer write it? There's no story here, just a clumsy extreme-right fable intended to elicit fear and hatred.A 1950s Cold War comic book must have been the model. Cartoon monsters.Just plain stupid. All involved should be ashamed.It is conceivable that a decent political thriller with this sort of subject matter, yet it would take far more intelligence than what's on offer here.Maybe if someone with the slightest respect for women had written it the female lead would have been oxymoronically an executive with the inteillgence of an idiot and the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old.So, the message here is hate, for Muslims, for women, and for those of us in the West unwilling to embark on another Crusade.Again, shame on all involved.