Title: Stupid characters ruin the rest of it
Product review: Okay, the positives first: great soundtrack and scenery; good performances.Otherwise, as noted by Sake Drinker and some other reviewers, many of the characters are so incredibly stupid that it's a wonder they lived this long. Hiring a nanny who's in the country illegally, taking your employer's kids into another country without permission, allowing your drunken moron of a nephew to drive you and two kids through the desert, jeopardizing the health and welfare of a bus full of people, taking your wife into a nasty little village with no sanitation to see a doctor with dirty fingers...all of these are acts of stupidity committed in the film. Apparently, they took Stupid Lessons from the characters in House of Sand and Fog.
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