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I find it very difficult to believe or understand how many good reviews this dour and disagreeable little contrivance has on IMDB.

Is it merely Marie Matiko's good looks? (It's only redeeming feature.) Maybe it's the simplistic plot, or the unsympathetic one dimensional characters, or the straight-to-video production values?

Could it be the over acted machismo or implausible dialogue?

Perhaps it's the inane Buddhism lite or the offensive yet reassuring stereotypes?

As I said, a complete mystery to me!

How sad to see the likes of Carol Kane, Simon Callow, Jennifer Tilly, Eric Roberts and Kurt Fuller in such a dismal little flick.

I guess times must be tough all over, even in Hollywood.

There are hundreds of great films, hundreds of thousands of good ones.

This is neither nor is it so bad it's good, don't waste your time.

This is an excellent little film. Little, in terms of runtime & budget, enormous in terms of engaging story-telling that realistically reflects reality for a great many people, (even in some of the world's richest countries ~amplified in the rest) and indicates the true nature of the forces behind it.

Tightly written, concisely directed, convincingly acted, drone-shot punctuated efficient cinematography.

So much better than small stories told with big budgets.