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Title: pretentious and shallow
Review: The acting is excellent, the locales exotic and the cinematography is beautiful. The problem is, it all adds up to nothing but a trio of banal stories from which the director is deperate to extract meaning from coincidence.I suppose one of the Grand Themes is how we are all interconnected, or how it's a small world after all or some such sitcom-level Deep Thoughts. I suppose this might come as a revelation to anyone who's never thought about anything before, but hitting the audience over the head with contrived melodrama and overwrought peril for 2+ hours doesn't make it any less trite.The characters are stereoypes, the script is lazy and superficial, expecting the audience to do the work of supplying motivations to the characters. Any tragedy is generated in the laziest way possible: by contriving extreme, implausible situations.If the movie didn't look so good and didn't have such a strong cast, I wouldn't have given this waste of time any stars.
