The story in the movie is kind of lame, and despite having two good actors, one of which who won best supporting actor for Amadeus, the movie is poorly acted to the point of having stilted dialog and a soap-opera feel to it. Scenes with dubbing are also terrible, why not just have those scenes either in the film's native Italian or just leave the Italian accented English voice track alone. This movie does kind of go overboard hinting that all Islam breeds terrorism when, in fact, the vast majority of terrorists are of the Wahabist sect (a misinterpretation of Islam based upon the Haditha). And who ever heard of not being able to photograph Muslims or Dervishes...that's ridiculous. Watch this movie if you absolutely must, but I had to stop it after 40 mins cause it was so bad. The transfer is grainy and blurry and some of the camera work is suspect.
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