SoylentGreenie Review of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)

If you enjoyed the book – this is a very different story

[6/10 · 6 May 2012]

You'll find that much that made the book so good has been changed: characters that didn't appear in person are given prominence, it has been made into a love story, which the book really isn't and the ending has been totally re-worked to give cinema audiences a feel-good-happy-ending which the writers must have believed they craved. There is so much more depth and subtle humour in the book, it's a shame that the changes in the movie had to be so radical. However, as a stand-alone movie the actors are excellent, Scotland and London have never looked better and the British humour and political irony are spot-on.