Review 49: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was a surprisingly original romantic film as I felt that the film had more of a focus on the plot than on a romance,

Based on the novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Today. When Britain's leading fisheries expert, Fred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) to help realize Sheikh Muhammad's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith, hope, good-will and fish to prove the impossible, possible.

The plot is great and is a optimistic, riveting and ambitious example of making a difference,

Director Lasse Hallström's direction is  the locals are breathtaking, the score by Dario Marianelli is beautiful, the cinematography is gorgeous and captures the beauty of both London and the Yemen, there are wonderful moments of humor and I love the character development. If I was to find any flaws in this movie, it would be the ending of the film which left me uneasy but after after some thinking and after the fog cleared, it was good.

The acting is fabulous, Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt 

Conleth "Varys" Hill has a very nice

Kristen Scott Thomas is just as Marvelous as ever.

People call this a romantic comedy drama but I'll tell you this: All I saw was to people working together to make a difference in the world and its not just a romantic film its a film about hope, faith and to never give up if what you planed goes wrong. In fact I'd say it's a sort of a love story against a backdrop of a big operation.

 4/5


The Anonymous Critic