The movie is basically a boring string of appalling clichés which do not offer a real cross-cultural insight. The Middle Eastern leg of the journey is described in a particularly irritating way: there obviously are mud brick villages, dirt tracks in the middle of the desert, women clad in black robes and belly dancers. I wonder how camels and date palm trees were missing from the whole picture. The personality of the two main characters is very clumsily sketched and many situations are hardly credible.
The original idea might have been interesting, but at the end of the day if you are looking for cultural insight, you should skip this movie.
The original idea might have been interesting, but at the end of the day if you are looking for cultural insight, you should skip this movie.