Yossra8

I felt that this movie was made for other reasons than cinema making! The characters are out of their natural habitat, they don't speak like that, don't dress like that and certainly kids don't speak English with American accent nor as fluent. The writing was not intact, the ideas were allover the place and the conversations between John savage's character and Mira Sorvino's character were phony, like they were trying hard at pretending. I definitely did not enjoy any of the performances except the goat's! Besides why did the movie need all these unnecessary actors, like Nelly Karim's scene which could have easily been cancelled.

Important concept that deserves to be discussed, the idea of exporting labour force with language barrier and poor security elements. I found the movie too long with exaggerated cinematography for a simple story.

Loved the music!

Good acting.

Unnecessary use of graphics which gave the story a touch of unneeded fantasy ! This made it look like a comic book desert adventure rather than a real-life suffering.

I read that the main character had to lose a significant amount of weight to portrait the effects of the declining conditions he lived through. This was obvious on the screen.

I wished there was more scenes for Najeeb after his return home and meeting his family, because the effect of his complete disappearance on his family needed to be portrayed as well.